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Orientation 2

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…

Mirror, Mirror

I was trying to catch Cát Tiên talking to her plastic kitty with my laptop's camera, but she caught on as soon as I moved to the side. Instead, delighted by her own image on the computer screen, she gave a little performance of her verbal experimentation directly to the camera.

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  1. Ooh, some more of that cuteness!! See, you grown ups, it's not about words, it's about facial expression and body language!

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  2. So cute this should go on youtube!

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  3. Her cuteness always puts a smile on your face. I love all her movies, they are the best entertainment.

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