The Zombification of Speculative Non-Buddhism
I see that you practice the rhetorical strategy of first misrepresenting what I say, then proving you are ever so much cleverer than I am because you can find a flaw in your own invention. (Tom...
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Disruption. X-buddhism’s network of postulation is a power grid pumping buddhistic charism through the lines of venerable transmission [see video title below]. Steadied by its rhetorics of...
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Seventeen thoughts on thinking.
1 There is thinking and the enablers of thinking. Never mind, for now, the question what is thinking? There is thinking in the same way as there are rocks or computers or toenails. And never mind, for...
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The Play of Thought.
1 We could approach thinking as a way of finding our way around in the situation we are in — a search for useful thoughts. Useful as in helping make sense of our world. Undoubtedly useful connects...
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Chögyam Trungpa’s ma-rig-pa and ‘Mindfulness’
There is a developing discussion about mindfulness and its incorporation into and exploitation by the capitalist world. See for example On Modern Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Social Ethics by Justin...
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Another Stab at the Non
I frequently make a stab at the Non—that is I write off the top of my head on the Non as a practice. Here is my latest effort, which you might like to consider in relation to the one Matthias posted...
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The Digital Swarm
The growth of information to a level that exceeds and overwhelms social institutions (Bartone, 2015), and the collapse of the global economy, are conditions ripe for the disintegration of corporate...
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Post-Buddhism: No Grand Narrative
One non-Buddhist writer (I can’t remember who) described the Buddha as “a pre-modern post-modernist.” Buddha’s method of inquiry was one of relentless deconstruction. His teachings deconstruct...
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Text/intentionality/ Non
(1) Here is a link to a fascinating recording of a class given by Maurice Merleau-Ponty on Heidegger’s “Being and Time”. Leaving aside the content for the moment, notice the patient and explorative way...
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Mystery.
Deep in my heart – and, I suspect, in yours – there is a beating, pulsing Something. It is that which seeks expression; it is that which equally evades it. But what is it? I cannot see it, I cannot...
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Words/Language/Non
I look on this writing of mine and feel its word-poverty : its utilitarian ugliness. I would, if I could learn the art of it, use words to enthrall; Now the proto-sounds and proto-tactilities have this...
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Mindfulness/Non-Buddhism/Non-philosophy
Over on SNB Per Drougge has an interesting post exploring the way mainstream media and the blogsphere are re-accessing mindfulness, its benefits and its workplace and political implications. This is a...
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Silence/Immanence/The World
Sometimes the bottom falls out of our world and we must question life by the force of passion alone. Not everyone articulates this experience on the level of reasoned argument, but everyone grapples...
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COMMUNING WITH NON-PHILOSOPHY: when “non-” equals “co-“
Over on Agent Swarm Terence Blake continues to publish insightful posts on Laruelle and other contemporary philosophers. His latest offering is a paean to Laruelle’s thought, and one more powerful for...
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Life, Death & Words
http://aeronalfrey.blogspot.de/2011/12/limited-edition-of-grimscribe-prints.html The foreclosure of the Real is the starting point of our expedition. An expedition through life, death and words. Don’t...
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The Wachtmeister is back
When The Wachtmeister disappeared in 2014 people where left wailing and complaining. His hilariously funny parodies seemed to debunk so called X-Buddhist mesmerists to an extent that left the public...
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I see its beauty
A girl, using the Twitter handle @QueenDemetriax_, sent a threat to American Airlines. She gets arrested by the police, attracts a global media storm and becomes the object of both fierce derision and...
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Immanent Beatitude
1) For me at least, the concept of the foreclosure of the human real to philosophical, ideological, political or moral capture is a gift; one could call it, in Christian terms, an immanent grace...
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Material and action – Some heretic thoughts
Over the Christmas days, I’ve read a little bit about a dispute between the so called Laruellians and those who see him as just another decisional philosopher. These discourses are predominantly above...
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