Category: philosophical counseling
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A (Broken) Playbook for Happiness
If you’re a serious beginner interested in learning how to meditate, then you can join Khe Hy and me for a free 4-day meditation challenge starting this Tuesday. * The following is the opening section of Khe Hy’s probing personal essay “A (Broken) Playbook for Happiness”: Let’s play a game together. I want you to…
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Zen Master Bankei And European Intellectuals On The Unruly Passions
In his magisterial essay The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph (1977), the late intellectual historian and economist Albert Hirschman canvasses three strategies that seventeenth and eighteenth century European intellectuals entertained for dealing with the unruly passions: 1. Repress: push down this unruly passion 2. Harness: sublimate the unruly passion…
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A Very Brief Summary Of Zen Master Bankei’s Exquisite Teaching
Proposition #1: All beings are essentially the Unborn Buddha Mind. Teaching: Just abide in the Unborn. Evidence: “When you dwell in the Unborn itself,” Bankei states, “you’re dwelling at the very wellhead of the Buddhas and patriarchs” (The Unborn:The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693, p. 53). Proposition #2: The Unborn has a…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 