Essays
The restless mind, read slowly. New writing weekly.
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Your Therapist's Newest Technique Is 1,600 Years Old
The eight-word move clinicians call defusion was described with full rigor in fourth-century India. On the rope, the snake, and the storehouse where worry practices.
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The storehouse: why the same worry keeps arriving
On ālaya-vijñāna, the consciousness that keeps everything, and why repetition is not failure.
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You can't argue with a seed
Why reasoning with a worry feeds it, and what the Yogācārins did instead.
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The watcher at 3 AM
What is left over when a thought is seen. A close reading of manas, the mind that takes things personally.