Revisioning Buddhism 2018-onward

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2024

(R852) Mahayana as religious fiction (240221)

2023

(R838) The Buddha’s 7 challenges to interreligious dialogue (231108)
(R836) Roots of meditation and its modern vicissitudes (231108)
(R835) The religious and mental health (231025)
(R825) When self religion hurts (230816)
(R824) The faith that truly frees (230809)
(R823) “Scientific” Buddhism, higher Dharma? (230802)
(R822) Liberation anthropology, liberation Buddhism (230726)
(R809) Learning from history (230429)
(R807) Turning the bowl upside down (230412)
(R806) Lineage or learning (230405)
(R805) Creative teachers, creative misreadings (230328)
(R804) The 3 fetters in real life (230322)
(R797) McMindfulness (2 of 2) (230201)
(R796) McMindfulness (1 of 2) (230125)
(R795) New year reflection learning Dhamma from rabbits (230118)

2022

(R790) Twin wonders (221214)
(R787) Natural adaptation (221123)
(R784) 10 common false views (221102)
(R782) Better to be kind than right (221019)
(R777) Abhidhamma Day (220914)
(R776) Who will destroy Buddhism? (220907)
(R774) Wizard of Oz (220824)
(R771) Feeling the wound (220803)
(R770) Psychotherapy and Buddhism (220726)
(R768) The dog, the stick, the sufi (220712)
(R767) New lamps for old ones (220706)
(R765) Using the Buddha (220622)
(R764) To have or to be? (220615)
(R762) Status or state? (220601)
(R755) Air on the G-string (220413)
(R754) Power and its consequences (220406)
(R752) Early Buddhist prophecy (220323)
(R751) When is the Dhamma true? (220316)
(R750) Is Buddhism for the rich only? (220309)
(R748) Obsessive compulsive habits (220223)
(R747) Gaslighting 2 of 2 (220216)
(R746) Gaslighting 1 of 2 (220209)
(R743) Teaching a parrot new words (220119)
(R742) Guru talk (220112)
(R741) No change (220105)

2021

(R735) How to use others (211122)
(R734) Religiopathy (211117)
(R733) How to die famous (211110)
(R731) Self is really a verb (211027)
(R730) Dependent Buddhism (211020)
(R729) Entity or unity? (211013)
(R728) Why wear clothes? (211006)
(R723) Buddhism as superstition (210901)
(R722) Bringing Dhamma home (210825)
(R721) Return to the Buddha (210818)
(R720) Tits for titles (210811)
(R719) Women who suffer for Buddhism (210804)
(R716) So near, yet so far away (210714)
(R715) Vesak reflection: samvega (210707)
(R714) Change your wife in 30 days (210630)
(R712) You don’t get it (210616)
(R711) We have a daughter! (210609)
(R710) Buddhist conquest (210602)
(R707) Reflection No. 701 (210512)
(R706) Vinayaless priests (210505)
(R705) Lemming Dharma (210428)
(R703) Sa pangalan ng Buddha (In the name of the Buddha): Philippines’ Buddhist century and Dhamma millennium (210407)
(R700) It guru on us (210324)
(R700) The last Buddhist (210317)
(R699) A love for words (210310)
(R698) Artists and Photographers (210303)
(R697) Dhyana-factors, 4 or 5? (210224)
(R696) Sutta Centre (210217)
(R694) Kierkegaard for Buddhism (210203)
(R692) Joker (210120)
(R691) Seeking Dhamma (210113)

2020

(R688) Dhammavuddho and the soul (201223)
(R687) Reading 2020 (201216)
(R686) Buddhism anti-social? (201209)
(R685) The 4 secrets (Part 4 of 4) (201202)
(R684) The 4 secrets (Part 3 of 4) (201125)
(R683) The 4 secrets (Part 2 of 4) (201118)
(R682) The 4 secrets (Part 1 of 4) (201111)
(R680) Scatology in early Buddhism (201028)
(R678) Direct Dhamma (201014)
(R677) Growing the Bodhi (201007)
(R676) Time and streamwinning (200930)
(R671) Religion as superstition (200826)
(R670) Free Buddhism (200817)
(R669) Gurus hold us, Dhamma frees us (200812)
(R666) Reason or season (200722)
(R665) Why I write (200715)
(R664) Game rules (200708)
(R663) Turtles most mocked (200701)
(R662) Let the mask fall (200624)
(R660) We create our own guru (200610)
(R657) Eyes wide shut (200520)
(R656) Translating ourselves (200513)
(R653) The business of omissions (200422)
(R652) How the Ratana Sutta works (200415)
(R647) Winks at wisdom (200311)
(R646) Changing tires (200304)
(R645) Joy (200226)
(R642) Why Buddha is not laughing (200205)
(R641) Peasant scholar (200129)
(R640) May all be free (200122)

2019

(R636) “Essence of Christianity” (191225)
(R633) Emotional independence (191204)
(R632) In other words (191127)
(R631) Language limits (191120)
(R630) The path without dhyana (191113)
(R623) The Conqueror’s cage: a dream of the 5 arhats (190925)
(R622) Is man dead? (The real Dharma-ending age) (190918)
(R621) Resistance is futile (190911)
(R620) Clever Hans (190904)
(R614) Cosmic Buddhism (190724)
(R613) History tomorrow (190717)
(R612) When ignorance is no excuse (190710)
(R609) Cabbages and kings (190619)
(R608) Signs (190612)
(R607) Living Buddhism, living Dhamma (190605)
(R605) Are the gods real? (190522)
(R601) Sorry! Sorry! (190424)
(R600) Vulnerable (190417)
(R593) No conscious thought? (190227)
(R592) I love you (190220)
(R588) Look … you shall find (190123)
(R587) Path without numbers (190116)
(R586) Talk or truth (190109)
(R585) Bent and genius of the tongue (190102)

2018

The address plaque at 293 Tranquerah Road, Melaka, Malaysia was stolen on 26th May 2018.

(R584) Not by any name (181226)
(R583) Do you mind? (181219)
(R581) Pali polysemy: the colours of words (181205)
(R580) The Buddha’s shadow (181128)
(R577) The mind moves (181107)
(R576) Abhisamaya (181031)
(R574) Anicca or aniccha (181017)
R573) The teacher’s shadow (181010)
(R567) Truth sequences (180829)
(R563) Creating Buddhism (180801)
(R559) The streamwinner, the true bodhisattva (180704)
(R558) Wrong steps (180627)
(R554) Stolen address: A Vesak reflection (180530)
(R553) Acquisitions (180523)
(R547) To save world, save self (180411)
(R546) The Bodhisattva’s sex life (180404)
(R545) The speeds of world, body and mind (180328)
(R544) Turning the Buddha on his head (180321)
(R543) Against the flow (180314)
(R542) Early Buddhist texts (180307)
(R541) Buddhist agnosticism (180228)
(R540) A psychology of myth (180221)