HeyJaredLove of All Wisdom
Thinking philosophically across different cultural traditions. Influenced most deeply by Indian Buddhism, Aristotle, and German historicism, but seeking truth everywhere from Roman Stoicism through Neo-Confucianism to experimental psychology. Free.
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Social Justice against postmodernism (opens the original)
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Remember postmodernism? When I was a student in the 1990s and 2000s, the very French philosophies of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida were all the intellectual rage. Everything was about subverting established paradigms and ways of thinking, showing complexity in things that seemed to be simple. In the early years of Love of All Wisdom – around 2010 – it was still influential enough that I often wrote critiques of postmoder
Is delusion a modern institution? (opens the original)
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My upcoming book is devoted to the theme that suffering doesn’t come primarily from bad external situations (like political ones), but from the interaction of those bad situations with our mental states of craving and resistance. One might ask: is it possible to split the difference? Could it be that our suffering comes from our mental states but that the institutions make things worse?Mindfulness critic Ron Purser and Zen teacher David Loy think so. Referring to the traditional “three poisons”
Do stop thinking about tomorrow (opens the original)
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Modern mindfulness meditation is helpful in a great variety of ways. Most importantly, it trains you to notice when your mind is distracted. Once you’ve done it for a while, the benefits go further. Especially, you can notice how your mind is distracted.Some of Andy Puddicombe’s more advanced Headspace meditation series ask you to notice the kinds of distractions your mind faces: starting w
A Woke 2 that's not a mistake? (opens the original)
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Christians can have neutral supernatural beings (opens the original)
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Back when I was a TA at Harvard, possibly my favourite student was an evangelical Christian. He was an economist, so his written work wasn’t as good as some of his other students, but his participation was essential to my seminar discussion, within Diana Eck‘s world-religions class. Many of the students were at Harvard Divinity School and drawn to a view that the “world religions” were all basically the same and all basically good. This student was having none of it: to claims that Christians an
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