Essays
The restless mind, read slowly. New writing weekly.
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The Body Is a Text the Mind Keeps Rereading
The scan always finds a sentence — a noisy body, attention that amplifies what it reads, and the search that widens what it meant to narrow. On the health worry loop, and the scanning label.
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The Decision You Keep Not Making
You are not comparing futures — you are comparing renderings, and the unchosen path is always in better light. On decision paralysis, and the twenty-four-hour close.
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Reading the Thirty Verses, Slowly — Verse One
Everything called 'self' and 'things' are designations laid upon transformations of consciousness. The Thirty Verses series opens: one verse, two readings, one swapped sentence.
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Transformation at the Base
Insight opens the door; only repetition moves the house. The arc assembled, and the final term: āśraya-parāvṛtti, transformation at the base.
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Certainty Is a Craving, Not a Need.
The checking never ends because certainty was never on the receipt — relief was. On the craving that impersonates a need, and the one uncheck.
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The Buddhist Case Against Positive Thinking
Reassurance is a loan against tomorrow's anxiety, at interest. On why a pleasant rendering is still a rendering, and the move that ends the war.
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Why You Can't Think Your Way Out of Overthinking
The loop dresses up as problem-solving because that is the one activity you never interrupt. On the lap that manufactures its own finish line.
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You Are Not the Storm. You Are the Room.
Being inside a thought and having one differ by position, not content. On the seen and the seeing, and the witness that is already running.
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The monks who mapped the unconscious, 1,400 years before Freud
The unconscious was not discovered in Vienna. On the eight rooms of the Yogācāra map, and why the deep layer is a warehouse, not a basement.
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Every Worry You Feed Becomes a Seed
The worry arrives faster because it is being trained. On seeds, perfuming, why suppression waters what it fights, and the one move that does not.
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You Have Never Seen the World. Only Your Mind.
The raw event and your experience of it have never once been the same object. On renderings, and the message that reads differently at 3 AM.
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Why your brain replays conversations at 3 AM
The replay has no finish line because it was never problem-solving. On the loop that manufactures a self, and why it becomes audible when the house goes quiet.
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Your Therapist's Newest Technique Is 1,600 Years Old
The eight-word move clinicians call defusion was described in fourth-century India. On the rope, the snake, and the storehouse where worry practices.