Drigo Blanco ⁽¹¹⁾

Two Paths to One Insight It's probably apparent by anyone who's come across my thinking that I've spent a lot of time digesting the work of Alain Badiou (not exclusively of course, as pertains to philosophers), and primarily because I find there's a certain clarification…

If you've spent any time with early Buddhist texts, you've encountered the word dhamma. You've probably also noticed something strange: the word seems to mean different things in different contexts. Sometimes it refers to the Buddha's teaching. Sometimes it means truth, or reality, or phenomena,…

Comfortable Tales One often hears in contemporary mindfulness communities things insinuating that "All Buddhist traditions are just different expressions of the same Dharma." It's the spiritual equivalent of "all roads lead to Rome". It sounds wise, avoids awkward conversations at the dharma center, and lets…

"[T]xai means something akin to “brother-in-law.” It refers to a man’s real or possible brothers-in-law, and, when used as a friendly vocative to speak to non-Cashinahua outsiders, the implication is that the latter are kinds of affines. Moreover, I explained that one does not need…

Buddhism is full of things people view as paradoxes—seeming (but illusory) contradictions that, instead of leading to confusion when followed through, open the door to deeper understanding. One of the most profound is the paradox of becoming (bhavā). The Buddha teaches that craving leads to…