The Noble Eightfold Path
to the End of Dissatisfaction

1.1 Be Willing to Turn Toward the Truth

1.2 The Four Noble Truths, 1: Pain

1.3 The Four Noble Truths, 2: Craving

1.4 Craving & Clinging as ANS Responses

1.5 The 4 Noble Truths, 3: Cessation

1.6 Cessation, Liberation, Letting Go

1.7 Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dhamma

1.8 Why Kondañña Shouts “Change!” When He Awakens

1.9 Āsāḷhā Pūjā: Celebrating the Turning of the Wheel

1.10 “The figured wheel rolls through shopping malls and prisons”

2.1 Right Intention Starts With Letting Go

2.2 Letting Go: Willful or Autonomic?

2.3 Renunciation as Recovery

2.4 “Freed from Hatred and Ill-will”

2.5 Hatred is a Virus

2.6 Nonviolence, part 1: Intention & Impact

2.7 Nonviolence, part 2: Ethics & Relationships as the Path

2.8 Nonviolence, part 3: Kamma and Rebirth

3.1 First, Tell the Truth

3.2 Not Lying: Not Easy!

3.3 Truth Statements

3.4 Speech Acts, Performativity, and Other Ways of Saying Words Have Power

3.5 The Four Speech Disciplines as Spectra

Extra: Reflections After the Kavanaugh Hearing

4.1 Non-Harming, part 1: Don’t Be a Hard-Hearted Killer. At Least.

4.2 Non-Harming, part 2: Rabbits are Eco Meat! But…

4.3 Right Action, part 3: Action Becomes Rebirth

4.4 Not Taking That Which Isn’t Offered, part 1

4.5 Not Taking That Which Isn’t Offered, part 2

4.6 Establishing Wise Intentions in Your Practice

4.7 A Meditation on Love

4.8 Sexual Energy in Spiritual Practice

4.9 “Intoxicants that cloud the mind”: The Complex 5th Precept

4.10 Intoxicants, part 2: “But don’t stop taking your meds.”

4.11 Screens and Media as Complex Intoxicants

4.12 Meaning, Perception, Context, Discernment

5.1 The Basics of Right Livelihood: Money, Ethics, Interconnectedness

5.2 Right Livelihood Means Both How We Earn and How We Spend

5.3 Economy Means Deep Interconnection

5.4 Dhammic Socialism

6.1 Right Effort Basics

6.2 Striving

6.3 Autonomic Nervous System States 1

6.4 Autonomic Nervous System States 2

6.5 Autonomic Nervous System States 3

6.6 Vesak and Colonialism

6.7 Why Can’t I Control My Big Feelings??

6.8 Sustained Effort

6.9 Cultivating Wholesome States

6.10 Effort – Directing Attention

DO.1 Dependent Origination, part 1: Decolonizing the Heart

DO.2 Dependent Origination, part 2: Identity and Culture

DO.3 Dependent Origination, part 3: The Classical “3 Poisons/Fires”

DO.4 Dependent Origination, part 4: Reactivity

DO.5 Dependent Origination, part 5: Emergency or Just Saṁsāra?

DO.6 Dependent Origination, part 6: Linear vs. Cyclical Views of Evolution

7.1.1 Mindfulness as Liberative Inquiry

7.1.2 The Practice of Buddhist Mindfulness

7.1.3 Mindfulness of the Body: 32 Parts

7.1.4 Elements

7.1.5 Concentration

7.1.6 Mindfulness as Intimacy

7.1.7 Bearing Witness

7.1.8 Tranquility and Compatmentalization

7.1.9 Death

7.2.1 Vedanā Affect

7.2.2 Vedanā and Emotions

7.2.3 Vedanā as Affect, part 2

7.2.4 Vedanā and Emotions, part 2

7.2.5 Vedanā Primary & Secondary Emotions

7.3.1 Mindfulness of States, pt. 1

7.3.2 Mindfulness of States, pt. 2

7.3.3 States: Energy, Charge, Focus

7.3.4 States: Self-Awareness, Assessment, Discernment

7.4.1.1 Hindrances Overview

7.4.1.2 Hindrances and Their Roots

7.4.1.3 Hindrances: I’m Out of Control!!

7.4.1.4 Hindrances and Social Action

7.4.1.5 Hindrances: Between Hedonism and Asceticism

7.4.1.6 Hindrances: Hatred and Social Engagement

7.4.1.7 Hindrances: Motivation & Action

7.4.1.8 Hindrances: Somatic Energy

7.4.1.9 Hindrances: Intervention vs. Acceptance

7.4.1.10 Hindrances: Doubt, Doubt, Doubt!

7.4.1.11 Hindrances: Doubt About What Is and Isn’t The Path

7.4.1.12 Hindrances: Faith in The Triple Gem

7.4.1.13 Hindrances: Doubt, Liberation and Rebirth

7.4.2.1 Factors of Awakening: Appropriate Attention

7.4.2.2 Factors of Awakening: Investigation

7.4.2.3 Factors of Awakening: Conditions for Engagement

7.4.2.4 Factors of Awakening: Energy

7.4.2.5 Factors of Awakening: Rapture

7.4.2.6 Factors of Awakening: Tranquillity

7.4.2.7 Factors of Awakening: Tranquillity Part 2

7.4.2.8 Factors of Awakening: Tranquillity Part 3

7.4.2.9 Factors of Awakening: Tranquillity Part 4

7.4.2.10 Factors of Awakening: Tranquillity Part 5

7.4.2.11 Factors of Awakening: Tranquillity & Immersion

7.4.2.12 Factors of Awakening: Immersion

7.4.2.13 Factors of Awakening: Directed Attention

7.4.2.14 Distraction is Flight From Discomfort

7.4.2.15 Equanimity is Really Difficult

7.4.2.16 Equanimity Means Emotion without Confusion

7.4.2.17 Equanimity in the Long Emergency

7.4.3.1 Fuel Reduction

7.4.3.2 “Go ahead and want!”

7.4.3.3 The Khandha as Process

7.4.4.1 Embodied Mind, Minded Body

7.4.4.2 Mindfulness of the 6 Senses as Eros

7.4.5.1 Equinox, Fractals, Balance, Path

7.4.5.2 Understanding Suffering

7.4.5.3 The Promise of Freedom

8.1 Intro to Samādhi

8.2 Quarantine Your Demons

8.3 The Pleasure Garden of the Heart

8.4 Jhāna and Neighborhood

8.5 Four Embodied Absorptions

8.6 Jhāna as Described in the Suttas

8.7 What to Meditate On

8.8 Pleasure, Internal & External

8.9 How to Relate to Thinking

8.10 Solstice! End of the Path