Where Buddhist philosophy meets Bitcoin, Libertarianism, and Austrian Economics
The three-lifetime reading of dependent origination, the four modes of the chain that Abhidharma already distinguished, and the question the suttas actually record. How forward observation, reverse observation, and the cessation sequence got merged, and what the difference changes in practice.
The Wujia jie sets five commentaries under the same line of scripture: Fu Dashi's verses, Huineng's plain gloss, Zongmi's scholastic essentials, Yefu's one-line ripostes and songs, and Zongjing's sermon outline. Here is how the five voices diverge, why Hamheo in early Joseon added a sixth, and how the book came to be translated into Korean on a king's dying instruction.
Zhiyi lectured on the Lotus Sutra at Guangzhai Temple in 587, and the record became the Fahua Wenju. It reads each line of the sutra four ways: by causes and conditions, by doctrinal classification, by trace and origin, and by contemplating the mind. Here is what those four modes are, how the trace and origin division cuts the sutra's twenty-eight chapters in half, and why the fourth mode is unlike the other three.
One question Korean meditation halls have carried for nearly a thousand years. What ganhwa seon is, why the Mu koan is built so that it cannot be solved, Dahui's break with silent illumination, the ten ailments that ruin the practice, and what a beginner should know before sitting.
A guide to the Heart Sutra, the 260-character scripture chanted daily for nearly fourteen hundred years. What the five empty aggregates and form-is-emptiness mean, what the chain of negations aims at, the five-part structure with the full Chinese text and an English rendering, and the gate gate mantra.
Emptiness and the quantum observer effect point in the same direction
The patience of virya paramita and the philosophy of HODL, and why simply enduring is the hardest practice
The structural kinship between the hard repetition of Zen practice and Bitcoin's proof of work
The Heart Sutra teaches that form is emptiness and emptiness is form. Bitcoin teaches that trust is vulnerability and trustlessness is freedom. The resonance between these ideas runs deeper than metaphor.
The Diamond Sutra's 'do not dwell in appearances' and Bitcoin's trustless design point in the same direction
The Buddhist law of karma and libertarian voluntary exchange share a common core: actions have consequences
How the Buddha's Middle Way and the Austrian School both reject extremes in favor of natural balance
The Buddha's teaching on impermanence reveals the inevitable fate of every fiat currency in history
How the Buddha's teaching on interdependence mirrors Bitcoin's decentralized network
Where Buddhist non-attachment meets Bitcoin's fixed supply and the philosophy of sound money
How deliberate actions shape our experience and our future
The Buddha's path of balance between indulgence and self-denial
The Buddhist teaching on the ever-changing nature of all phenomena
The Buddha's radical insight into the nature of personal identity
Understanding sunyata, the Buddhist teaching that nothing has an independent, unchanging core
The Buddha's profound insight into the interdependent nature of all phenomena
The Buddha's practical guide to awakening through wisdom, ethics, and mental training
The foundational teaching of the Buddha on the nature of suffering
An accessible introduction to the Awakening of Faith's teachings on One Mind and tathāgatagarbha
An accessible introduction to the Vimalakirti Sutra's teachings on non-duality and lay enlightenment
An accessible introduction to the Lotus Sutra's teachings on universal Buddha-nature and skillful means
An accessible introduction to the Avataṃsaka Sūtra's vision of universal interconnectedness
An accessible introduction to the Diamond Sutra's core teachings and modern relevance