❁OVERVIEW OF ALL POSTS❁ (INDEX BELOW)

#1: On the Path, Off the Path?

#2: The Mat and I

#3: Practice as if Your Hair Were on Fire?

#4: Anicca and the Bog of Despond

#5: All That’s Solid Melts into Air

#6: My Beggar’s Buddhism

#7: What Is Vipassana?

#8: Anger, Fear, and Sadness

#9: There Is a Crack in Everything

#10: The Unhappy Buddhist

#11: Starting Again, and Again, and Again…

#12: Seasons (Dhamma Blowback)

#13: Tripping over Pebbles on the Path

#14: Choose Your Suffering (The Four Noble Truths)

#15: Left and Right

#16: A Lovely Passage from Nietzsche and the Eight Vicissitudes

#17: Pain and the River Ganges

#18: Dhamma Posturing

#19: Hold on Tightly, Let Go Lightly

#20: The Writer and the Meditator

#21: Nobody Loves a Winner

#22: My Beggar’s Buddhism, Revisited

#23: “Thank You for Being”

#24: What the Dhamma Is Not

#25: Meditation Meltdown

#26: Monkey Mind and Mental Hygiene

#27: He and She

#28: Self-Censorship

Unposted #28: Grievances

#29: Ageing (Happy Birthday!)

#30: The Riddle of Self-No-Self

#31: Satiphobia, Fear of Meditation-Induced Personality Loss

#32: The Melancholy Meditator

#33: Caring

#34: Thank You for the First Month!

#35: A Late Adopter’s Manifesto

#36: Real Friendship

#37: Money Makes the World Go Round

#38: The Positive in the Negative

#39: The Crocodile

#40: This Is the End

#41: Down for the Count … and Up Again!

#42: The Comments Question and Plato’s Cave

#43: Self and Self-Importance (A Tribute to Adler and Freud)

Postscript to #43: The French Connection (BHL and Houellebecq)

#44: Skillful Means and Taking Refuge in a Psalm

#45: Balmy Buddhism (Pain Revisited)

#46: Failure and the Writing Life

#47: Work and Its Fruits (Gandhi vs. Trollope)

#48: Behold, a Pale Horse

#49: The Weeds along the Path

#50: Noble Listening

#51: What Now? What Do You Think?

#52: Lucky Streaks

#53: Surfing the Waves of Life

#54: Not Calm Enough to Meditate?

#55: Love

#56: Heaven and Hell

#57: Joyfulness

#58: Fifty Days and Counting (Benefits of Meditation)

#59: Meditedium or Dhamma Dullness

#60: Goethe’s Higher Beings

#61: The Perils of Going on Vacation

#62: What Makes a Buddhist?

#63: The Golden Rule

#64: My “Sermon” on Higher Learning

#65: Ha-ha or Ta-ta

#66: Meditation “Belts”

#67: Concentration and Equanimity

#68: The Old Liberal School

#69: Dread

#70: Liberation

#71: Giving Up

#72: Ever-Erring Mankind (Mistakes)

#73: The Yoga of Botox

#74: An Iron Cross and a Menorah

#75: Chasing after Wind

#76: The Tao and the Dogs of War (Israel)

#77: Teach and Trust, or Bust (The Church of Reason)

#78: Boredom and Excitement

#79: Taking Things Too Personally

#80: The Art of Living

#81: No Barking in Bangkok

#82: The City of Angels (A Tribute)

#83: Generation Air (J’Accuse…!)

#84: All-Too Personal, Reconsidered

#85: The Four Harmonious Friends (Diversity)

#86: Rolling Up the Mat

#87: The Gambler in All of Us (Risk)

#88: The Joker and the Fool

#89: Enter the Yogi-Bhogi…

#90: “Falling Off the Path”

#91: Discontentment

#92: The Sphinx

#93: The Way of the Stoics

#94: Indian Summer

#95: Don Quixote

#96: Lust, Caution

#97: The Arctic Darkness and the Common Cold

#98: Redemption Songs

#99: The Gentleman (A Draft Obituary)

#100: Man’s Search for Meaning

#101: Saying Your Good-Byes

#102: Sisyphus

#103: Bubbles in the Stream

#104: Confidence Issues

#105: How Do You Say Portnoy in German?

#106: Our Troubles with the Reality Principle

#107: Voting with Your Wallet

#108: Messrs. Jekyll and Hyde

#109: Gifts of Fortune (Wisdom)

#110: The Courage To Be Disliked

#111: Cheer Up, You Are Not Special

#112: The Shadow-Line

#113: Minding Our Worst Moments

#114: The Deathless

#115: Simon Says (Happiness)

#116: The Edge of Chaos

#117: My Diamond Sutra (Tension)

#118: The Shadow of the Future (AI)

#119: Waiting for the Barbarians

#120: Life Is Not an Outcome

#121: The Musk Factor

#122: Fear and Loathing (The Poison in Political Views)

Interlude: Hans the Klutz (A Fairy Tale)

#123: The Unquiet Americans

#124: A Cat Not a Tiger (Aporia in London)

#125: A Postcard from Salisbury Cathedral

#126: Ancient Greek (Ora et Labora)

#127: Traveling and the Taoist Clown

#128: Homage to the Hotel Orient

#129: The Gates of Hell (Auschwitz-Birkenau)

#130: Of Scars and Suitcases

#131: Of Questions and Crises

#132: The Unbearable Lighting of Berlin

#133: The Flow of Dhamma

#134: Now You Hear It, Now You Don’t

#135: What Was Equanimity Again?

#136: No Future

#137: The Teaching Prison of Our Sensations

#138: Coffee

#139: Employment and Its Discontents

#140: Sickness and Death

#141: Why I Write

#142: Getting Old

#143: Amor Fati

#144: Felix Austria and Her Cousin Germania

#145: Vox Populi

#146: Hope

#147: Live Not by Lies

#148: Nightmare Fantasies

#149: KBO (Churchill)

#150: What Is a Philosopher?

#151: Enemies

#152: Giving and Sharing

#153: The Fool and the Tao

#154: Tact and Truth

#155: Not Good Enough

#156: To Trump or Not To Trump

#157: The Day After

#158: Amusing Ourselves to Death

#159: Die alten Leiden des nichtmehrjungen D. [German]

#160: The George Washington Test

#161: Fact and Fiction

#162: The Pooh Way

#163: The Vipassana Trench

#164: Knowledge and Wisdom

#165: 10,000 (Crossing the Line)

#166: Why I Teach

#167: The Magic in Helping

#168: Doctor’s Orders

#169: Waiting for GODE

#170: The Buddhist Stripes of America

#171: Brother Hitler?

#172: To Read or Not to Read

#173: The Game of Invidious Distinction

#174: Selfie-Centeredness

❁ My Beggar’s Buddhism (Signature Pieces): 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 19, 20, 22, 32, 43, 46, 55, 56, 80, 88, 89, 95, 99, 100, 109, 138, 141, 149, 165, 173

❁ Ageing, Sickness, and Death: 29, 48, 73, 94, 101, 112, 114, 140, 142, 168

❁ AI and the Digital World: 26, 35, 40, 64, 77, 83, 118, 121, 169, 174

❁ American: 21, 122, 123, 156, 157, 158, 160, 170

❁ Austrian: 128, 129, 144, 152, 154

❁ Biographical: 15, 74, 99, 101, 105, 126, 129, 132, 159

❁ Blog Internals: 34, 41, 42, 51, 65, 71, 152, 165

❁ Britishy: 28, 46, 47, 56, 60, 68, 99, 101, 105, 112, 124, 125, 126, 141, 145, 149

❁ Buddhist Basics: 1, 2, 3, 9, 16, 24, 26, 30, 44, 50, 57, 62, 78, 90, 103, 174

❁ The Dhamma and Vipassana: 3, 5, 7, 11, 18, 24, 26, 45, 63, 80, 109, 133, 134, 135, 137, 152, 163, 165, 167

❁ Equanimity: 7, 67, 135, 143

❁ Errors, Failures, Giving Up: 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 44, 46, 71, 72, 86, 90, 97, 108, 113, 127, 130

❁ Faith, Hope, and Beyond: 9, 44, 56, 60, 70, 98, 114, 125, 143, 146

❁ French: PS to 43, 72, 74, 123, 132, 138, 141

❁ Freud and Adler: 43, 92, 104, 106, 108, 110, 111

❁ Generational Issues: 26, 28, 83, 110, 111, 119, 126, 136, 139

❁ German: 60, 74, 105, 129, 132, 144, 147 (PS), 154, 159, 171

❁ Happiness and Joy: 10, 45, 57, 115

❁ He and She: 27, 92, 96, 106, 122

❁ History: 74, 129, 132, 144, 149, 158

❁ Impermanence (Seasons): 4, 5, 11, 12, 16, 25, 41, 52, 59, 78, 89, 103, 134, 168

❁ Lighter Touches and Sidelines: 49, 53, 73, 89, 128, 138, 139

❁ Love and Friendship: 33, 36, 55, 63, 80, 85, 92, 96, 100, 151

❁ Luck, Gambling, Chaos: 52, 87, 88, 109, 116

❁ Meaning and Meaninglessness: 14, 60, 70, 71, 75, 93, 95, 100, 102, 103, 109, 120, 131, 136

❁ Meditation: 2, 3, 11, 17, 25, 31, 52, 54, 58, 59, 61, 66, 67, 86, 90, 117, 116, 128, 168

❁ Melancholy and Darker Shades: 4, 8, 10, 32, 69, 75, 86, 115, 149

❁ Money: 22, 37, 47, 68, 87, 99, 107, 139, 145, 152

❁ Negative and Positive: 8, 9, 10, 38, 39, 45, 56, 71, 91, 108, 110, 113, 117, 124, 131, 151

❁ Nietzsche: 16, 20, 35, 36, 55, 100, 115, 116, 132, 143

❁ Obstacles: 13, 25, 31, 54, 59, 61, 69, 90

❁ Pain and Suffering: 4, 10, 14, 17, 45, 69, 91, 117, 130

❁ Personal and Autobiographical: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 23, 39, 61, 74, 79, 84, 97, 98, 101, 104, 105, 112, 117, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 136, 141

❁ Philosophy: 16, 20, 30, 42, 60, 75, 80, 93, 100, 102, 109, 143, 150

❁ Politics: 15, 28, 42, 68, 74, 76, 97, 122, 123, 144, 146, 147, 148, 149, 151, 156, 157, 158, 160

❁ Reading and Writing (Work and Its Rewards): 20, 41, PS to 43, 46, 47, 102, 120, 141, 145, 155, 172

❁ Retro: 23, 27, 35, 40, 42, 68, 99, 119, 126, 128, 136, 144, 149

❁ Self-No-Self: 30, 43 (and PS), 55, 56, 62, 68, 70, 79, 84, 103, 104, 110, 114, 117

❁ Signs of the Times: 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 35, 40, 42, 77, 83, 85, 106, 110, 111, 118, 119, 120, 121, 131, 136, 145, 148, 158, 161, 174

❁ Stoicism: 80, 93, 97, 143, 150

❁ The Tao: 54, 76, 80, 103, 109, 116, 117, 123, 127, 153, 162

❁ The Teaching Life: 64, 77, 111, 120, 166

❁ Thailand: 1, 39, 81, 82, 132

❁ Tributes: 7 (Goenkaji), 16 (Nietzsche), 20 (Montaigne and my Singapore students), 28 (J.S. Mill), 43 (Adler and Freud), 55 (Love), 56 (Aldous Huxley), 60 (Goethe and Colonel Nicholson), 74 (my grandfather), 77 (Robert Pirsig), 82 (Bangkok and Lawrence Osborne), 93 (James Stockdale), 95 (Don Quixote), 97 (Alexei Navalny), 101 (Bob Hargrave), 112 (Joseph Conrad), 128 (Vienna), 138 (Balzac), 141 (Orwell), 144 (Austria), 149 (Churchill), 171 (Joachim Fest), 173 (Thorstein Veblen)

❁ Trump-Vance-Musk and Alternatives: 110, 121, 122, 123, 147, 148, 151, 154, 156, 157, 158, 160

❁ Truth and Truthfulness (and Tact): 23, 28, 63, 97, 106, 110, 145, 147, 150, 154, 161

❁ War: 74, 76, 105, 144, 151

❁ Wisdom: 9, 14, 16, 55, 75, 80, 93, 100, 109, 112, 120, 136, 137, 143, 153, 164