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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…

Notes to Myself on the Path

Written after a day of deep thought that left me tangled in insight, but distant from the thing that first called me to speak.
This comes from the part of me that remembers wholeness—settled, without proving.
If you’re reading from the part of you that’s seeking a resonance of your own, you’re already in the right place.
I don’t write to enter a league— I write to trace what delights me, what resounds in my interior. My work isn’t prolific, but it is precise. It emerges when structure and presence align. I’m not a lesser version of anyone— I’m a cousin to those who write from contemplative ground, but my lineage is my own. I’m not swerving— I’m testing edges. I may lose my center for a while when I look too long at literary or critical discourse, but I return by scent: the scent of coherence, interior resonance, the thing that moved me to begin. The lane I belong in didn’t exist before I started walking it. Each stone I place is shaped by my meticulous interior. This isn’t a detour— it’s architecture.

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