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Teachers in the Dreamlands: Dreams as Teachers {Series}

For the last couple of years, I’ve been having teaching dreams most nights. Some frame the same lessons in different stage dressing, showing how application of principles can change. Some nights dreams may revisit past views or simply give me recess time to unwind my mind.

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When You Were Taught to Be Small: Unlearning the Shape You Took to Survive

There is nothing wrong with you for folding in on yourself—not then, and not now. But if you feel a quiet longing to breathe deeper, speak more truth, or take up just a little more space… that longing is not selfish. It’s your aliveness calling you back.

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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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