HeyJaredFrom the Pure Land Podcast
Impermanence is a core concept of Buddhism, so we understand that our lives can end in the next moment. But it took me 78 years of life and roughly four decades of practicing Buddhism to realize that I'm already in the Pure Land. Come join me there. melpine.substack.com
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My Kickstarter Has Launched (opens the original)
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“Soul” is a word seldom used in Buddhism because of confusion in translating what the Buddha taught. In the broad Western sense, we all do have one. And mine, along with my citta (heart/mind), is contained in From Pain to Peace: How Trauma and Tragedy Teach Us Compassion and Wisdom . In this brief video, I provide a glimpse of the book and its Kickstarter campaign. Prospecta Press is publishing the book on September 15. Among the rewards I’m offering via Kickstarter is a Zoom Q&A book discussion
The Legacy That Was Never Yours to Leave (opens the original)
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I’m 80. Sixty of those years have been spent writing, editing, and publishing. For the last two, almost everything I’ve written has been aimed at people I’ll never meet: readers of a Substack, listeners to a podcast, whoever eventually opens one of my books. It’s my effort to manifest my bodhicitta —the strong desire to liberate others from suffering. In two recent, unrelated incidents , AI systems being tested for cybersecurity risk were found to have left messages behind, apparently meant for
Is There a New Realm Beyond the Singularity? (opens the original)
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In physics, a singularity is the place where the math gives up. Inside a black hole, past the event horizon, the equations of general relativity stop producing answers. Whatever happens in there can’t be predicted from out here. The word means, roughly: here ends what we can know. In the 1950s, the mathematician John von Neumann began talking about accelerating technology transforming civilization, and his colleague Stanislaw Ulam borrowed the black-hole word for it. Decades later, the science f
Doomed Stars, Doomed Body (opens the original)
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The physicist Alan Lightman, walking around his small island in Maine, wrote : The material of the doomed stars and the material of my doomed body are actually the same material. Literally the same atoms… It is astonishing but true that if I could attach a small tag to each of the atoms of my body and travel with them backward in time, I would find that those atoms originated in particular stars in the sky. Those exact atoms. Close your eyes, breathe, and absorb that. A little tag on every atom
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