Category: Empower Me

Just Thinking: Relational Frame Theory and Psychology of Thought Tendencies

I personally prefer to go to the roots of the problem of thinking. Dialectical thinking is useful, in my view, for the resolution of life choices. Yet it stays at the surface of confused thinking. RFT goes deeper into how mistakes in thinking are produced and stored. It’s more like the psychology of the underlying tendencies in Buddhist thought.

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The Apocalypse Will Not be Televised, it Will be Live (and unexpected)

Suffering, like power outages or wars, can be unexpected and take unexpected shapes.

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Philosophy as a Form of Resistance

When we practice philosophy with open hearts, we don’t just critique the world, we begin to heal it.

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The Cave, the Mind, & the Rescue: A Modern Parable for the West

In Buddhist understanding, there are no saviors who come from above to pluck us out of suffering. There are only fellow travelers, walking the same path side by side.

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The Myth of the Present: Why Time Matters

My point is that you don’t have to be a presentist to be Buddhist.

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