On Medium: Do We Envy the Silence of Wild Animals?

Read on for a critique of John Gray’s conservative, Buddhist belittlement of human progress.

On Medium: The Horror of Being a Singularity

Read on about the amorality of Buddhist enlightenment and the nihilistic nature of enlightenment.

On Medium: Pragmatic Morality and the Buddha’s Nihilism

Read on about how the Noble Eightfold Path is a tool you throw away when you’re awakened, so nirvana is a nihilistic mental condition.

On Medium: Where Are All the Buddhist Critics of Consumer Culture?

Read on about how Buddhism is supposed to be so much more insightful and relevant than Christian warnings, yet you don't hear many Buddhist criticisms of consumerism.

On Medium: The Meeting of Alien and Deluded Minds in Mahayana Buddhism

Read on about the clash between mysticism and pragmatism in the Lotus Sutra, and Buddhism's double truth doctrine for the enlightened and the unenlightened.

On Medium: The Incoherence of Basic Buddhism

Here's an article about the clash between early Buddhist naturalism and morality, and whether the Buddhist is committed to a double truth doctrine for insiders and outsiders.

On Medium: Are We All Illusions that Lead God Astray?

Here's a dialogue on nonduality, Western and Eastern views of enlightenment, and the implications of regarding our personal minds as misleading illusions.

On Medium: Buddhas Aren’t Slaves to Saintliness

Read on about the subversive implications of the Buddhist repudiation of egoism, and the reconciling of Eastern and Western conceptions of enlightenment.

On Medium: Buddhas are Nihilist Observers, Not Compassionate Saints

Read on about the incoherence of the standard Western conception of Buddhism, and why enlightened Buddhists would be unattached even to selfless or moral desires.

On Medium: Cosmic Neutrality and the Paradox of the Bodhisattva’s Virtue

Read on about the difference between philosophical and politically correct understandings of Buddhism, and how the enlightened Buddhist should be as inhuman as the universe.

On Medium: Enlightened Buddhists Shouldn’t be Compassionate

Read on about innocuous epiphanies, the false front of Buddhist morality, and whether the nihilism of adopting the cosmic perspective is fit only for transhumans.

On Medium: What is Life’s Cosmic Role?

Read on about the mystic's obligation to explain whether we're slaves to nature’s evolution, trapped in some cosmic role, or bridges to an unnatural order.

On Medium: The Clash Between Daoists, Buddhists, and Modern Humanists

Here's an article that compares some countercultural and mainstream philosophies, showing how secular humanism is a counter-revolt against neoshamanic criticisms of civilized social conventions.

On Medium: From Buddhist Serenity to Existential Horror

Hop aboard a philosophical roller coaster, showing the consistency between Buddhist and Kantian agnosticism about the world's metaphysical nature, and existential horror about the limits of our knowledge.

On Medium: The Hypocrisies of Early Buddhists and Secular Humanists

Read on about the elitism of early, monastic Buddhists, the pride of late-modern consumers, and where ancient wisdom meets modern folly.

On Medium: The Clash Between Ancient and Modern Sages

Read on about the differences between ancient and modern ideas of enlightenment, including the dichotomies between tranquility vs alienation, and stagnation vs progress.

On Medium: Are Buddhists Wrong to Try to End Suffering?

Here's an article about Buddhist neutrality about monstrous nature, the humanist’s rebellion against nature, and the difference between foolish and honourable suffering.

On Medium: Ancient India: The Citadel of Disaffection

Read on about how Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism trump Western monotheistic religions in promoting religious alienation from the apparent world. 

On Medium: Buddhist Nirvana And The Consolation of Nihilism

Here's an article about alienation, mindfulness, and the annulment of humanistic progress.

On Medium: Buddhism and The Threat of Nihilism

Read on for an article about Buddhist pragmatism and the secular reconstruction of morality, and how the Buddhist's therapeutic coyness with metaphysics flirts with self-defeating nihilism.