Non-Buddhism
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Speculative Non-Buddhism was founded in May 2011. Since then, we have published over 120+ long-form essays and 7,000+ comments, many of them quite substantial in their own right. The purpose of this blog is to engage in a speculative critique of Buddhism. In doing so, the author neither takes for granted the salubrity of Buddhist teachings for the contemporary world nor bars the possibility of..
Non-Buddhism
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NEW SEMINAR! Starts May 4, 2024. THE ART OF EXIT:The Poetry and Politics of Reclusion in Medieval Japan with Matthew Staley Dates & Time Three Saturdays: May 4, 11, 18, 20241-2:30 PM (Eastern, US Time)(See time zone converter if you’re in a different location.) Cost (four options):(i) Free for members of Incite Seminars. Become a member of Incite Seminars ..read more
Non-Buddhism
3M ago
By Anonymous [The following essay was salvaged from the drafts section. It’s been in there for six years now. It was written by a student of a program I chaired from 2006 to 2018, when the program was discontinued. After submitting the essay to SNB, the student, whose name was originally on the by-line, thought ..read more
Non-Buddhism
3M ago
I am currently slogging through the drafts section of this blog and salvaging anything that may still be useful to this project. Seventy-five draft items have been hibernating in there—75! Some are full-length essays that, for reasons I don’t always recall, I chose not to publish, and then forgot about. Some are experimental, often outright ..read more
Non-Buddhism
3M ago
Trash Theory: Preliminary Materials for an Image of Practice #4* Agency in Practice This is an updated (1-20-24) offering for our trash heap of practice theory. It has three parts: I. The Marginal Figure II. The Organic Intellectual III. Parenti, Not Zizek It elaborates on the following non-postulates: Non-Postulate 1 Practice is a struggle against mastery, rather than a reaching ..read more
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4M ago
(This article was originally published at Tricycle Magazine. Since a subscription is required, they graciously allow their authors to republish.) By Glenn Wallis Twenty years ago, my daughter, Mia, had a shattering revelation at the age of 4. We were watching one of those nature movies about sea life. Out of the blue, a school ..read more
Non-Buddhism
4M ago
By Matthew O’Connell* The mediation of shallow ethics and moral confusion Mediation is a term I have been thinking about of late. It functions well as another window onto the question of how we engage reality and the nature of our relationship with the world beyond our subjective interior. To what degree is our life ..read more
Non-Buddhism
7M ago
Matthew O’Connell of The Imperfect Buddha Podcast just published an intriguing essay on non-buddhism and beyond. It is on Tricycle Magazin‘s online edition. I’m not sure if there is a paywall or not. Have a look ..read more
Non-Buddhism
7M ago
In an age of despair. . . The practice of “concrete utopia” might offer a glimmer of hope. Despite the brutalist Soviet-era images it evokes, the term “concrete utopia” has nothing to do with architecture. Rather, it names an organizational process. It makes an intentional play on the term from which “concrete” the Latin concrescere, “to grow ..read more
Non-Buddhism
8M ago
By Henry Blanke The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. —William Blake BDSM can be seen as a form of erotic theater in which participants play roles (usually dominant and submissive) and enact “scenes” involving sexual practices including bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism. A variety of erotic ..read more