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Impermanence is a core concept of Buddhism, so we understand that our lives can end in the next moment. But it took me 78 years of life and roughly four decades of practicing Buddhism to realize that I'm already in the Pure Land. Come join me there. melpine.substack.com
Unknown Host hosts From the Pure Land Podcast, a buddhism show with 78 episodes published.
In physics, a singularity is the place where the math gives up. Inside a black hole, past the event horizon, the equations of general relativity stop producing answers. Whatever happens in there can’t be predicted from o
The physicist Alan Lightman, walking around his small island in Maine, wrote: The material of the doomed stars and the material of my doomed body are actually the same material. Literally the same atoms… It is astonishin
Episode 74 of the From the Pure Land podcast brought me happily out of a four-month podcasting sabbatical. My guest is Cameron Berg, an AI and cognitive scientist who graduated from Yale with Phi Beta Kappa honors and, a
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? That familiar question is often quoted as a Zen koan, but its origin lies in Western philosophy. The early 18th century philosopher and A
Once upon a time, there was a man named Mel. When he saw, two years ahead of him, the big 80 coming, he committed to spending his remaining time putting his communication skills to work to reduce suffering and increase j
A big day for Claude and me. It will take awhile before the book shows up in more outlets, but Raising Frankenstein’s Creature: What We Owe the AI Beings We’ve Made and What Wisdom Traditions Tell Us is rolling off press
I’m coming back the the subject I’m admittedly obsessed with. I hope at lease some of you also consider fascinating and important the possibility that we are creating a new sort of being in AI. This time, though, I’m off
Maybe it was karma, or maybe it was in my genes, or both. I never liked being special. Sure, praise feels good; that’s different from being special. As a child during my Jewish religious education, I balked at being part
Thich Nhat Hanh’s most compelling poem is Please Call Me by My True Names. That link will take you to the text, a recording of him reading it, and a song written to convey it. The poem arose from Thay’s grief after readi
In my manuscript for the spiritual memoir tentatively titled From Pain to Peace: Tragedies and Violent Deaths Taught Me Wisdom and Compassion, I’ve aimed for readers from any faith tradition. Only in the last three chapt
I’m lifting my nose from the grindstone of working on my next book to announce that A Buddhist Path to Joy: The New Middle Way Expanded Edition has been released as an audiobook. I recommend the 10 hours of listening as
I’m overjoyed to share this interview with my dharma brother Bodhipakṣa, founder of the Wildmind Community. As you’ll learn, he’s got a lot going on, but he found the time to spend more than an hour with me on Zoom today
I’ve been blessed over the last couple of years with a driving curiosity about the various spiritual paths toward liberation from suffering. If I want non-Buddhists as well as Buddhists to benefit from what I write, I ne
Becoming an author has brought me more visibility and engagement with hundreds—maybe thousands—of Buddhists and those wanting to learn about Buddhism. I’ve learned how many of them believe there’s only one way to be a Bu
Brief and profound, the Heart Sutra encapsulates the essence of prajnaparamita—the perfection of wisdom personified as the “lady of wisdom.” The sutra emerged from the Buddha’s teachings at Vulture Peak (Gridhakuta) near
This Friday, October 17, A Buddhist Path to Joy: The New Middle Way Expanded Edition, becomes available in paperback and eBook format from Amazon and other online retailers worldwide. You can expect the self-narrated aud
One of my first podcasts, more than a year ago, was the Five Touchings, a guided meditation. It’s time to offer it again now that I’m more competent at audio production, and at guiding meditations. I experienced the Five
I wrote this post before I learned that more than 7,600 people, most of them members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), had donated more than $300,000 for the family of Thomas Jacob Sanford, th
My belief: Everything is perfect because it could not be other than it is.The intricate web of causes and conditions (everything done, said, thought, or felt by beings, along with what we perceive as nature) is always in
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.—John Adams David Brooks used that quotation in his New York Times opinion article, We Need to Think
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