A list of all 174+ texts—or "meditations" as I call them in the print edition—for easier reference, with links and a new index. Enjoy :)

Some acknowledgements and the links to the book version of my texts and to my author's pages on Amazon and Academia.edu.

1 Jan. 2025. I've started adding my posts at pellerinbkk.substack.com, but everything here will stay as it was :)

31 Dec. 2024. Just an additional way to get to the site that you might find easier to remember in a pinch, with my take on blue.

29 April 2023. Where it all began: Am I a Buddhist or am I not, and what would it really mean to give either answer?

29 April 2023. Doing your daily sittings is not everything, but regular meditation is an important part of the practice. Some reflections.

30 April 2023. The Buddha's exhortations suggest a great sense of urgency around Dhamma practice. So how gung-ho should you get?

1 May 2023. The dark night of the soul and what can be done about it. How pondering impermanence helps...

1 May 2023. How solid and stable are things really? The Dhamma as an anchor and a compass in life.

2 May 2023. Why I think of my practice as a poor man's Dhamma. Hint: it has nothing to do with devaluing the Path or downplaying my efforts.

3 May 2023. Some thoughts on the meditation technique that I have been practicing for almost 20 years now, with pointers to more resources.

4 May 2023. Negative emotions are unwelcome to us for a reason, but are they really as unnecessary and baneful as they may seem?

… that is how the light gets in (7 May 2023).

12 May 2023. Everyone knows that good Buddhists are a happy, ever-smiling lot. Or aren’t they?

14 May 2023. "Continuity of practice is the secret of success." What if you keep dropping the ball? Pick it up with a smile and try again!

15 May 2023. For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven...

16 May 2023. Isn't it enough that we get tripped up so much in life? Does it have to be over such wretchedly small things too?

17 May 2023. Comical as it may sound, this is not a joke. Suffering is not optional, so choose yours wisely.

17 May 2023. Political divisions are inevitable, and it is their nature to separate us into hostile camps. So do we need to be enemies?

18 May 2023. You can’t be serious! First you call Nietzsche “lovely” (of all things), then you make a Buddhist of him? What next?

18 May 2023. How I wish there were an easy way to deal with pain! Alas, there isn’t; but something can still be done about it.

19 May 2023. This one is not just about others, but about the little Dhamma poser in all of us…

20 May 2023. If you could do even this one thing perfectly (or these two, you quibbler), then you might not have much left to learn here...

20 May 2023. A Montaignian angle on meditation, with dashes of Marcus Aurelius and a tribute to a particularly memorable group of students.