A personal blog by Owen about learning jhana, an absorbed meditative state built from sustained nice feelings, with practical guidance on finding and responding to positive emotions. Readers get concrete meditation experiments, milestones for measuring progress, and reflections drawn from one-on-one coaching and retreat experience.
Website: https://www.blissbrah.blog
The Handbasket is an essayistic newsletter, written by a reflective Australian author, on language, collapse, art, philosophy and meditation in the context of climate change. Each issue offers long-form, literary essays that pair cultural criticism with personal observation rather than news updates.
A personal essay newsletter by a writer and editor exploring editing as a craft, life in Los Angeles, and contemplative practice and meditation books. Issues mix reflective memoir with careful, idea-driven analysis of how we think, write, and make sense of experience.
Personal essays on meditation, no-self experiences and adult developmental psychology, written from the author's own long-term contemplative practice. Readers get first-person accounts and conceptual framing of Kegan's stages and awakening-style experiences.
Talks and teachings from the Pragmatic Dharma community on modern Buddhist practice, including meditation teaching, dharma talk preparation, and the design of the movement's visual identity. Issues pair a short framing with full transcripts or downloads.
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