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Naikan In Four Movements

This four-part Naikan series grew out of a course I offered at Baltimore Dharma Group in Spring 2025. While Naikan is often framed as a tool for self-reflection, I came to see it as something more relational: not a system of correction, but a practice of returning—again and again—to what holds us, what flows through us, what we leave behind, and what we remain with.
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Musings from the Meta-Verse: Tip of the Iceberg Cosmologies

Before you begin: please take a moment, settle in, enjoy the image above—of me holding my baby daughter as a first-time dad, tune into the frequency of restful wonder. Now allow your mind to wander outward from the edges of that image: to the room, to the street outside, to the vast sky beyond the vast sky. Further—past the solar system, past the galaxy’s edge, past everything known—to the edge of the cosmos. And then…
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Response To Cát Tiên Corral


The consensus is in: plastic play pen works the best. Option 2 is a lot of work, and babies tend to eat the wood.

Most importantly, Christina is on board, and wants to create a cocoon-like space for Cát Tiên as soon as possible.

Cat had a little incident with an orange peel today that reminded us of why baby-proofing is paramount. This isn't the passive, cuddly baby of our fantasies we're dealing with. This is a baby with pincer grips, indiscriminate appetite, and lightning-fast reflexes.

Luckily, chị Mai-Ly is going to give us the play pen that she used for Tèo, some fourteen years ago. Turns out it's the exact one in the picture.
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  1. janineApril 19, 2009 1:36 PM

    Hi Luu and Christina!

    That plastic play yard you picked out looks terrific. It looks like it's moveable, too, for different rooms/spaces. I agree with the "no floor lamps" comment--that was the biggest problem for me. But if you were as cute as Cat Tien, wouldn't you want to just go everywhere? And put things in the DVD player slot so that you can get a new one? And....

    Love,
    Janine

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  2. AmyApril 23, 2009 10:29 PM

    Good choice. Oh, how I dread the babyproofing. I don't know where we could even put a baby corral!

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