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The Middle Way and the Turning of the Wheel
Posted on August 31, 2017 by Kēphen
The Middle Way and the Turning of the Wheel: A Brief Examination of Buddhism I began reading about Buddhism and its three main branches of traditions and the many lineages and schools of thought within each, when I was only a teenager. Though all…
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No Arrival, No Destination, Just Being
Posted on July 4, 2017 by Kēphen
No Arrival, No Destination, Just Being From Thich Nhat Hanh, the venerable Vietnamese monk who strives to live and spread the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, I’ve learned this simple lesson: There should be no coming, no going, just being. More than anything else, these…
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On Faith and Fallacy: My Journey Out Of Christianity
Posted on February 13, 2017 by Kēphen
On Faith and Fallacy Some 10 years ago, at a time when my mind was still clouded with fantasy, I had the belief that only through faith could moral, ethical, and compassionate behavior be made manifest. That quintessentially, only through religion could we ever…
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Lotus in a Lake of Fire
Posted on November 7, 2016 by Kēphen
Photo credit: Kelvin Cheuk Lotus in a Lake of Fire: Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh Thich Nhat Hanh, pronounced Tik-N’yat-Hawn, is a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk. I stumbled across him when studying Buddhism about ten or so years ago. Over time I collected 15 of…
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- Unsolicited Stranger
- The Dying Light of Unrequited Love
- Freckles: Chapter Eighteen
- Liberation and a Return to the Sacred
- The Perfect Life
- Love Me Not
- Chasing the Westward Sun
- Life After
- The Past That’s Not Forgotten
- In the Twilight of Memory
- Out of the Darkness
- U.S. Behavioral Health and the Workplace
- Prajñāpāramitā Part II: The Heart of Insight
- Moments in Time
- To Be Acknowledged As Existing
- Choose To Live
- The Power of Belief
- Lords of the Wild
- The Inexplicable
- How To Research Your Family Ancestry
- Ben Tre: Keep the Loneliness Warm
- Genetics: The Basics of How You’ve Come To Be
- What the Story of Hiro-Kala Teaches Us
- When A Parent Dies
- Prajñāpāramitā Part I: The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion
- The Passenger
- His Light Carries On
- From Samanera to Bhikkhu: The Life of a Traditional Theravada Monk
- How To Start Eating Better
- The Macrocosm Perspective
- Human Sexuality Defined
- Alone In The Dark
- Nationalism and Police Brutality: The Deafening Sound of Ignorance
- The Middle Way and the Turning of the Wheel
- Identity Politics and the Slow Death of the American Moral Landscape
- The Thousand Year Journey
- His Empty Soul
- The Choice That Never Was
- No Arrival, No Destination, Just Being
- Respect For Living Things
- Abortion, Abstinence, Abuse, Birth Control, Teen Sex, and Unwanted Pregnancy
- The Algorithm Specs Behind Facebook’s “People You May Know” Suggestions
- The Darkest Corners of the Cyber World: Sexual Predation and Exploitation
- Freckles: Chapter Seventeen
- Everywhere You Go, There You Are
- Words To Live By
- Transgender in America
- On Faith and Fallacy: My Journey Out Of Christianity
- The Wall, Illegal Immigration, and the U.S. – Mexican Border
- Abortion
- Lotus in a Lake of Fire
- How Climate Change Affects Our Lives
- Muslim Refugees, Christianity and the Future of Freedom
- In Search of Self
- On Labels and Identity
- It’s Been A While
- Freckles: Chapter Sixteen
- Freckles: Chapter Fifteen
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- More Than Just Friends
- Freckles: Chapter Eight
- Freckles: Chapter Seven
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- Freckles: Chapter Five
- Ubiquitous
- The Four Cornerstones
- Freckles: Chapter Four
- Freckles: Chapter Three
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- The Darklord
- Crash
- Freckles: Chapter One
- Anger, Violence, Death, and Regret
- In My Own Words
- If You Could Only See
- Of God
- Here and There, Now and Then
- The Erosion of the Sagacious American Intellect
- Lemmings and Other Things
- Self-Reflection: To End A Cold, Damp Day
- The Man In The Mirror
- Orientation: A Two-Thousand Word Essay
- Two Journeys, One Life
- Keep You: Part Two
- Keep You: Part One
- The Demon In Me
- A River of Undying Flames
- Through My Eyes
- A Letter on the Intrinsic Threads of the Human Heart
- Autumn Calls You Home
- These Walls, That Shadow, Those Memories and This Soul
- Rewriting the Psychology of Homosexuality
- Awaiting Daybreak: Regression and a Nation Asunder
- Walk With Me
- To Die In A Closet
- Execution
- Meditation
- Depression and Iron: A Love Story
- The Audacity of Individuality
- A Little Something on Self-Acceptance
- A Portal to My Mind
- The LGBT Community vs. The Rest of Society
- The Inheritance of Peace: Here and Now
- At Peace With Goodbye
- Knowing the Road Ahead
- The Subjugation of a Christian Nation
- The Starry Night
- The Great Rift of the Global Soul
- Messages
- Understanding Evil
- The Abandonment of Religion: The Finding of God
- The Interconnectedness of Religion and Philosophy
- Asylum of My Mind: A Beckoning to Darker Places
- My Heart in the Sun
- The Sun Will Rise Again
- From Under the Thumbs of Demons
- A Letter To My Sister
- The Poet’s Path: A Life of Pain
- Premonitions and Restitution
- Playing Chess With Demons
- The War of Depression: A Synopsis
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