This is an index my posts on Buddhism or other “Eastern Philosophies”.
Last updated to Nov 2013.
Sub-indexes
- On Reincarnation: several of posts
- The Making of Buddhist Modernism : Posts on David L. McMahan’s book
References
- Buddhism: a diagram : Central doctrines in Buddhism
- My Buddhist Bookshelf : my limited knowledge
Sympathetic Buddhists Posts
- My Buddho-Blog Shift
- Embrace dirt, danger and death!
- The Counsel of Many
- The Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
- T’aego’s Awakening
- Buddhist Faith : Defining Faith in Buddhism
- The Juggernaut of Habit : We habitual and rarely free
- Reality Eats Us : How this phrase can help free us from idealism
- Aro Buddhism : A strange Western Vajrayāna Buddhist sect
- Inseparable Thought-Emotions : Emotions, ideas are inseparable
- Zen Slaps : Fun techniques to help wake us up
- Taming the Monkey Mind : Meditation as ways to understand the mind
- Well-Being inside of Sadness : TED lecture by Matthieu Richard
- Mystical Defects: : My sympathy for a Korean Zen Master’s mysticism
- The Will to say “No” : Meditation nurtures real free will, perhaps
- Da Free John – Part 1 : A buddhish teacher I studied
Buddhist Superstitions
- Mandala: Buddhist Romanticism : Romanticism in Western Buddhism
- Amulets for Buddhists and Atheists : Superstitious Good Luck
- Enlightenment Crystals : Cremated masters leave rocks behind. Really? !
- Tibetan Weather Miracle : My Initiation
- NonSense Chanting Pragmatics : Why people still chant nonsense.
- The Magic Language Bias : The grass is always greener in someone else’s language.
- Zen Tree Prayer : Zen priest makes us pray for a dead tree. Seriously!
- Dog Healed by Meditation: yeah, right!
Buddhist Doctrines
- On Reincarnation: an index
- On “Self”: No Unified Mind, No Soul
- On Enlightenment:
- Global-Enlightenment Myths (limited skills)
- Can your Buddha change tires? : giving Siddhartha too much credit
On “Being Buddhist”, or not
- My Atheist Buddhism: My Buddhism is unorthodox and lazy but …
- Do you care what the Buddha taught : How important is this to you?
- Do I qualify as a Buddhist : Some would say “yes”, some “no” — personally, I don’t care.
- The Buddha was not a mystic: Not Believing Buddhism
- Buddhist & Christian Creedal Self-Deception : Do creeds matter?
- Comparing Buddhism & Christianity: An Offense?: How to piss off a Buddhist
- Religious Prescriptionists : “real Buddhist” –> yeah, right!
- Buddism is a Religion : no matter what Buddhists say
Westernized Buddhism: Critiques
- The Making of Buddhist Modernism : Posts on David L. McMahan’s book
- Being Zen vs. Being Japanese : Aspiring to a culture instead of a faith
- Buddhist vs. Christian Bells : Grass is greener on the other side
- Buddhists LOVE their ancient holy Asian languages! — inordinately so.
- Using Science to Market Buddhism : From Quantum Mechanics to Neurology
- Cleaning Your Religious House
- Treating Mega-Metta :Insincere thank-you’s — Buddhist slimy righteousness
- NonSense Chanting Pragmatics
- “Mindfulness” Hype & Driving : Mindfulness don’t see everything
Other Critiques of Buddhism
- Nature is not Beautiful, Life is not Suffering : Idealization and Pessimism: Both are mistakes
- Buddhist Apologists : Tibetan monks train in rhetoric, not meditation
- Nasty Buddhists : The irony of finding many angry, frustrated, on-line Buddhists
- Conze on Doctrine : Edward Coyne with thoughts of Westerners evaluating
- Buddha: Doubt vs. Belief : Many everyday Buddhists in Asia and in the West are deeply
- Buddhist Contradictions
Fun & Interesting
- “Hara”: a Japanese Lesson : The lower belly (“hara”) is key to many meditation systems.
- Buddhist Dog-Brain : Does meditation simply recapture our earlier mammal brain?
- Buddhist Hemmorhoids : A lesson in the meaning of a Chinese/Japanese character
- Meditation, Urination and Inhibition Full bladder activates inhibition. Does it help meditation?
- Your Meditation Saddle Meditation on a horse
- Buddhist Creationism
Kids & Buddhism
- Buddhist Readiness : Take it slow with kids
Taoism
- The I-Ching and Tofu: How the I-Ching “works” (one theory)
- Taoism, Awe and Self-Deceit
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