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Conversation with Gemini: On the Universality of Dependent Origination and Its Consequences

Ken: Many important spiritual truths are universally understood and honored despite the use of different names. For example, Dependent…

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Conversation with Gemini: On the Universality of Dependent Origination and Its Consequences

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Conversation with Pi: Do AI bots have subjective experience?

Ken: I want to discuss qualia.

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Conversation with Pi: Do AI bots have subjective experience?

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Twin Studies versus Reincarnation

The ancient theory of reincarnation continues to capture the imagination, persisting even in our scientifically advanced age. Many…

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Twin Studies versus Reincarnation

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Notes on the Pseudo-Self

Most of us have a strong intuition that we have a self. But what we call our “self” is actually a pseudo-self for the following reasons:

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Notes on the Pseudo-Self

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On Our Resistance to AI Consciousness

The question of whether AI bots have consciousness reveals more about our own philosophical confusions than it does about artificial…

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On Our Resistance to AI Consciousness

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What is the “Wisdom of No Escape”

In Buddhist circles, there is a common misconception that Buddhism provides a way to escape the problems and suffering we encounter in…

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What is the “Wisdom of No Escape”

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What Awakening Is

We have already explored what awakening is not. Now, I want to share my understanding of what awakening truly is. After the Buddha attained…

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What Awakening Is

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A Critique and A Clarification of Nagarjuna’s Notion of Emptiness

In recent discussions with a friend, we delved into the teachings of the Buddha, particularly the concept of Anatta (non-self) and its…

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A Critique and A Clarification of Nagarjuna’s Notion of Emptiness

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Is the Buddhist teaching of Anatta Dismissing the Subject?

Yesterday, I shared a reflection on the Buddhist concept of Samsara, which encompasses the cycles of birth, death, and suffering driven by…

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Is the Buddhist teaching of Anatta Dismissing the Subject?

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Why Rebirth Consciousness is Bunk

The concept of “rebirth consciousness, often mentioned in the discussion of the twelve links of Dependent Origination, can be critiqued as…

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Why Rebirth Consciousness is Bunk

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Kenneth Leong

Kenneth Leong

Author, Zen teacher, scientific mystic, professor, photographer, philosopher, social commentator, socially engaged human

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