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• pick a landmark
• Interdependence
• Building a philosophy
• Choosing an automatic watch
• Mechanical GMT
• Why I want an 80 hour power reserve watch
• Non-self, bundles, non-ownership, selflessness
• Mind and consciousness
• Blogging anniversary
• twentieth reply
• cubism
• picasso
• Kurashiki, Japan
• reduce
• Thoughts on Konmari and sustainability
• Poetry hack for WordPress
• inseparable
• Changing metaphors
• Means to ends
• Stay with one metaphor
• A language for the rest of your life
• Love is not a thing
• Philosophy kills poetry and art
• no more love (poems)
• lucien freud
• sand dune
• Karate #haiku revised
• walking with the dog
• via negativa, via positiva
• Pramāna
• kawabata
• … faith or none
• The misconception of Buddhist suffering
• Pluralistic Agency
• The discovery of Bono
• Is/ought, descriptive/prescriptive, truth/value
• Siri is surreal
• Onkyo HF Player
• I think …
• Don’t
• Projectionism
• Death
• Typography, horology and Grand Seiko
• Abstract object
• In the sense first
• Identifying with the body
• Pan-naturalism
• Existence and observation
• No essence
• I think …
• Objective reality
• The (social) medium is the message
• Do we have free will?
• Love is a verb … and a noun
• Some things are too good to last
• Selling stuff, clearing space and mind
• Why ‘Seven of Nine’?
• Words are not things
• blog bloat
• Buy a sound bar
• Freedom?
• Time and events
• i see what you mean
• Chain of Keys
• My Dahlia
• Svabhava – the doctrine of no intrinsic nature
• Time is too precious
• God’s Imperfection
• Chicken soup for the non-soul
• Religion from a biological or anthropological point of view
• On nominalism
• Enlightenment is the end of rebirth
• So deductive reasoning does have its uses
• Deductive reasoning is flawed, therefore we should move on.
• Conditioned and unconditioned things
• Words and actions
• Object Philosophy
• halfway through the show
• Alien archeology
• Buddhism FAQ
• The unwilling(ness of) coronavirus
• Answers
• Ice hockey fan (philosophy)
• Pure sensation
• Processes and noumenalisation
• Rationality and Empiricism
• Mind and body…
• Is realism colorless reductionism?
• Soul, spirit, psyche, mind
• I feel for those isolated from tribes in the Amazon jungle
• Willing suspension of belief
• Body and soul
• Reality, perception, language
• Does X exist?
• Determinism and relativity
• Like old friends holding beers
• Baggage and garbage … rhyme
• Experience, memory, learning, knowledge
• ≠
• Inclusion
• Avoiding transmission situations and route
• Killing two birds with one stone – good ol’ fashion labour
• Of the mind
• The objectification of non-things
• still in the shadows
• Experience
• No direct access to anything, inside or out
• On Anaxagoras
• Stop the modern loop with postmodernism
• The world is the totality of facts, not of things?
• Know thy place
• Sleep, time, reality
• The subjective/objective paradox
• Why does the West fear empiricism and Buddhism?
• Nature includes us
• Philosophical tennis
• Categories
• Plum Blossoms
• The Experience
• Why buy physical music? Because it is better!
• Sacred dance, festival
• Back to basics with music – buy a “stereo” stereo
• Within the limits of a game of tennis is philosophy
• white paper from the start
• Life is not without meaning
• The structure of meaning and existence
• Innate ideas
• Space
• Out to lunch
• Differance and the metaphysics of presence
• Metaphors we live by
• Type and token things
• A piece of paper
• The inside of my safe
• Planet X
• Szczurolap (The Rat Exterminator)
• Brown
• Linguistic efficiency
• Statements of non-facts
• Absolutes
• Nirvana has no value
• The problem with man
• Heraclitus and time
• Our place in the universe is here and now
• Idealism, coffee grinders, movie magic
• Philosophical triangulation
• No body, no mind. No mind, dead body.
• The general and the particular
• Mind, soul, spirit
• Is there such a thing as antihumanism?
• Basho on being one with the object
• One of the great monologues ever – Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner
• Philosophical realism
• The soul
• The mind
• Space is an object
• What is a thought?
• Type/token
• What Phineas Gage can tell us about what the self is
• Things, space, time, reality
• Automacy
• Self-aware
• Perception is irrelevant
• Repeated acts of forgetfulness
• First stimulus and the chain of conception
• From the change in the relationship of things in space
• From the relationship of things
• Proceed with caution
• Self and other unawareness
• The first confrontation
• Revisiting philosophical projectionism
• things
• Today, everything exists to end up on the internet.
• Coma, time, idealism
• Philosophical projectionism
• The dualism paradox
• Emergent or projection?
• The stimulus of the mind and being
• When ideation ends …
• My Neohumanism
• Reason, logic, reality
• Things, space, and time
• Timelessness has no basis
• Two types of “sweaters”
• Out, damn spot! Out damn anthropocentrism!
• An object is an object is an object; the world is the world is the world.
• Critique of Idealism
• Buddhist suffering is not pain and grief
• The World and its experiences
• Sight, sound, touch
• The philosophy of “thrown in”
• Ghost stories, reality, and The Philosophy of Flawfulness
• Inferred space
• Time is only known one way
• The non-awareness of
• Self-awareness
• What is knowledge?
• Captain’s Log 1419.145
• Only matter
• Supervenience
• There are things
• Captain’s Log 1424.143
• Captain’s Log 1424.142
• Captain’s Log 1419.141
• Captain’s Log 1319.140
• The Ten Bull Pictures – notes
• Chemtrails, Beck
• heisei
• The end of an era in Japan
• Regurgitator’s Pogogo Show – a review
• Naive or Direct Realism
• Meta-epistemology
• External reality and anti-realism
• Certainty
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and the last mind
• The ontological and epistemological questions
• #ThereIsNothingSpecialAboutThought
• Wittgenstein’s First Proposition
• On Music
• Philosophy is not above and beyond analysis and criticism
• The Japanese nengajō (New Year’s cards)
• building metaphors
• Process
• Mind, self, soul
• the definition of a soul
• annual check up
• When a person dies …
• Does being a material monist mean I feel lonely?
• Monism, dualism or pluralism?
• Flux/Impermanent/Change
• I am a material monist
• Is pure space observable?
• Avicenna’s Flying Man experiment
• inside the mind
• Process
• There is no external world
• The death of perception
• Object-mass, object-space
• I, realist
• chewing gum
• What is sensation and sense data?
• All track pads are equal. Some track pads are more equal than others.
• One reality
• Perception colours reality
• noumenon
• Why I care about the new iPhones?
• Is recycling in Japan a sham?
• My 9-11
• 5 reasons I choose not to talk about politics
• When does a soul get created?
• The difference between a ‘k’ and ‘d’ in Ikea
• Trade offs
• Waste not a single moment
• SNS and real life
• Sensation and perception
• On the id, superego and ego
• sunday afternoon
• Multiplicity
• Buddhist Texts
• nude
• What the Buddha taught
• The Buddha
• Id, ego, superego
• Where idealism fails
• one, forty-two
• E=mc²
• Physicalism, not atheism
• The editorial error that became “metaphysics”
• Consciousness is mundane
• The equality of objectivity
• To talk of nihilism is meaningless
• “Philosophy”, East and West
• Physicalism
• Religion is man-made
• i like god
• How to paint an object
• I know of no other existence
• Be, being, becoming
• The Philosophy of Tennis
• OOO and objects
• The nature of this or that thing – will and representation
• Concepts
• The Noise In The Data
• On Reality
• Defining observing objects
• Defining Objects
• Defining The World
• Band-aid Philosophy
• Life as a lay practitioner in a Zen Temple
• The Life of The Buddha
• The Natural Animal
• 2018 resolutions
• Does not a belief in a flat earth imply that the planets are flat as well?
• Death
• Why making a more efficient car does not work
• The Buddha was an atheist
• The Book of Warren (The Unauthorised Revised Version)
• Value
• Modernism
• hospital ward
• wedding ring
• The human animal
• What should we believe in?
• Sramana
• The insistence of existence
• Rejection One, Two, Three
• Can you sell your soul to the Devil?
• heart and soul
• hippocampus
• selfish
• Verifiability and Falsifiability
• Reincarnation in Buddhism
• Thoughts on the Mind
• The faces of Foucault
• The Existential problem
• coffee bean
• Religion, philosophy and science have the same aim
• Stasis of form
• Conceptual Stasis
• Anxiety
• Stasis or Kinesis
• One Consciousness 
• Human/Animal
• Karate #haiku
• One system?
• Space, object and time
• space 
• Space, time and perception
• mao
• The non-agreement of logic
• Define the system and its range
• Ordinal-Cardinal/Nominal
• Concepts do not pre-exist 
• Interpretation and Prediction
• The projection of history
• Buddha taught us to say goodbye to karma
• Id/superego/ego, Japanese culture, Schopenhauer 
• frogs
• The main religions of Japan – a quick guide
• Please … show me something that is permanent 
• What is karma?
• All, concepts
• miss conception
• What does it mean to be a philosopher?
• Chains and the Imagined Freedom
• The Image and Art
• The celebrity that is God 
• “You are light as air & heavy as clouds”
• The fear of purposelessness
• Damn it, Dennett! Why did you have to say it?!
• Eagleton and Value-judgement 
• The Necessary Angel
• God/Word/Saussure
• spring
• vr
• switch
• Eliminate Racial Discrimination
• Why watching the development of Toyosu is important
• Derrida
• sustainable economics
• Philosophy must be questioned
• Shakyamuni (The Buddha)
• Non-religious Buddhism
• Why I am an atheist but not against religion
• My three reasons for taking up meditation
• postmodernism
• politics
• sick poetry
• forty eight
• atheist become
• morning phase
• park ranger
• no-soul
• What and how do I know?
• internet security
• government
• #wordplay #poetry
• differance
• decadence
• biodiversity
• air/glass/concept
• The subject in Western philosophy
• #HowMany Deconstructionists does it take to change a light bulb?
• I think I am
• #define unconsciousness
• #HowMany light bulbs does it take to change an object-oriented ontologist?
• #HowMany object-oriented ontologists does it take to change a light bulb?
• Catch/stone
• the view from the penthouse
• #define institution 
• God/Metaphor
• On the continuity of the world
• in/space
• On Realism
• What is Object-Oriented Ontology?
• #FoodVillage100People
• The world has a characteristic
• Loneliness, people and God
• the empty machine
• one moment (nirvana)
• I have no direct knowledge of God
• We can only ever be inductive
• Sooooo happy to be signature103.blog
• every moment (samsara)
• Not Materialism
• Let’s start having dialogues again – comments on
• No evidence for other universes
• What is wrong with rationalism?
• An alternative theory to multiverses (parallel universes)
• Knowing or conceiving God?
• Rationalism and Empiricism (not Rationalism versus Empiricism)
• 11 years of sustained blogging
• Towards a Buddhist Materialism 
• Why do I doubt God?
• Sensation and Perception
• Why people misunderstand the Buddhist concept of karma?
• The brain and its thoughts
• Philosophy from looking at a piece of paper
• Why bother with marriage?
• What has Periscope taught me?
• The philosophy of Jacque Derrida
• More sustainability humour
• 360 view of Atomic Bomb Dome in the Hiroshima Peace Park
• The transcript of the Emperor Akihito’s speech indicating his wish to “abdicate”
• Materialism must take precedence
• Periscope Tip #3 – use a mic
• Periscope Tip #2 – choose a good informative title
• Periscope Tip #1 – don’t get burnt out
• My thoughts on 10 years of sustainability dharma
• 2016 New Year’s resolutions
• Lessons on Right Speech from the Miss Universe 2015 Contest
• Nuclear versus fossil fuel power
• The search
• Doing things for humanity; now doing things for the planet – Sebastian Salgado
• What you see is only in the frame 
• Ergo cogito sum
• A note on “Emptiness” and “Non-self”
• Dragging the past into sports is an insult to us
• Question: Why have I only been in this perspective since I was born?
• We are human animals
• Do countries that speak English have a higher probability of success in business because of the English language’s framework, structure, and words?
• Money as medium of exchange
• How to slow down the destruction of the planet
• Thay hospitalised
• “Haruki Murakami says Japan ignoring WWII, Fukushima role”
• A Battery With A Twenty Year Lifespan …
• Congratulations to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi
• Things to be done
• Today’s Buddha
• Non-attachment
• Nature, Darwin, natural selection
• melting glaciers
• Enlightenment is not a state of mind
• Everything is an opportunity …
• SmartWeb
• No love
• EPA used to stand for compassion
• Shrinkflation
• (Zen in) the art of serving coffee #1
• Banksy’s Art
• Meaning
• meta-valentine
• Keep Calm. Meditate.
• look carefully …
• (no more) love
• speech-less
• No act of kindness is ever too soon.
• on (the) edge
• Is The Buddha a god?
• Right Speech
• forgiveness
• photograph
• Not ‘if’ but ‘when’
• Monk Begging in Shopping District
• Drowned by Jazz
• Listen without ears
• Censure yourself, never another
• Falling Leaves
• Keichu’s Wheel
• Three Stories on Attachment
• Forgetting Oneself
• Why meditate?
• Keep Calm
• Saul Bellow on Death
• We Are Not Kind Machines
• No Water, No Moon
• Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
• Travelling the Narrow Roads with Basho
• the interpreter
• every moment
• Some thoughts on Right Speech
• We share a reality (thoughts on the bombing of the Boston Marathon)
• How to Build a Buddha
• ferris
• The Printed Word
• Why did the neighbour cross the street?
• Basho’s Frog Poem and Gutei’s Finger
• Harada Tangen Roshi
• No sound, no water.
• Santoka’s Hailstone Poem
• Daito Kokushi by Hakuin
• The Sure Bet (Short Version)
• the sure bet
• Fukushima, 11 March 2011, 2:46pm
• Turning the prayer wheel
• youth, gone by
• This one …
• Resolution for 2013
• Anger
• Santoka
• Worn Out Shoe
• Food for Thought – What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
• No form
• Abuse within Zen
• There Is No Guarantee
• What the world needs
• Bodhisattva
• Interbeing
• Ye Haiyan
• Buddhism isn’t a philosophy
• “I am thinking now.”
• Some thoughts on the Arhat and the Bodhisattva
• Bodhisattva and reincarnation
• How we (are not supposed to) solve our economic problems
• Moderation in eating
• The rebirth of sustainability dharmablog
• Life in a Zen Temple #1 – Daily Schedule
• The Last of the Snow – Tetsuo Sakurai
• Tetsuo Sakurai, poet.
• Maximum Wage – the New Middle Way
• 9 August 1945, 11:02am
• He’s right
• 8:15am, 6 August 1945.
• No Nukes 2012 – Kraftwerk in Tokyo, 7 July.
• Longevity and Wellbeing
• The surprise of Man …
• From wood to plastic – new technologies
• World Population Day
• Ancient fuel
• The rich and the poor
• Adam Phillips on happiness, pain, satisfaction, and attainable ideals
• How much or little know about glaciers
• A message from David Suzuki of the David Suzuki Foundation
• This life is limitless
• Apple financially bigger than Poland?
• The thing about inconveniences …
• Vietnam uses monks to take territory
• It’s not money that grows on trees anymore
• An oldie but a goodie – The Severn Suzuki UN Earth Summit speech
• Three books environmentally aware parents should read with their children
• 3-11 nuclear disaster could have been much worse
• Our patch
• New Year’s resolution for SD
• A place where Buddhism and alcohol mix?
• Art and the environment – Emma Lindsay
• The world economy only works if there are IMFs
• The link between the environment and war
• Just how many nuclear tests have we done?
• 6,999,999,998 … 6,999,999,999 … 7 billion people … 7,000,000,001 …
• If the world were a food village of 100 people
• Mornings are the best time to meditate
• Money blinds people to nuclear risks – pro-nuclear mayor re-elected
• Very democratic but not very Buddhist – cigarettes in Bhutan
• What exactly does TEPCO have to hide?
• Trilakshana – the marks of existence in Buddhism
• Structures in nature maybe inbuilt geometrics
• What does the underside of the Arctic ice look like?
• David Suzuki – the DVD
• The number of Hiroshima A-bombs …
• On Heidemarie Schwermer and Tiger Woods – “Money distracts us from what’s important.”
• Good news … animals flee faster than we think
• The answer to life and everything is … 8.7 million
• How feasible is green energy?
• First Peace Declaration since the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
• Is this what is called “river kill”?
• An important lesson from Fukushima
• Masao Senzaki to head new nuclear nonproliferation centre
• Bikini Atoll mayor to visit Japan on H-bomb anniversary
• We know so little about us
• An open statement to Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese people
• Book Introduction – Voices Against War: A Century of Protest
• James Lovelock: it’s too late … we’ve pulled the (environmental) trigger
• So do you want to Farmville … or farm?
• Seals take refuge in Peru from global warming
• My Dharma resolutions
• My sustainability resolutions
• Reduce Reuse Recycle – the order of the 3Rs according to Google
• Recycle, reduce, reuse – which is the most important?
• What is theory?
• Where is sustainability dharma at now?
• Sustainability Wit
• Is it The Buddha or Buddha?
• Snow in March?
• Fear and the Slavery of Man
• The work of Helen Suzman is never truly done
• Coal – one day there may be no more mountains left to conquer
• An ad for ads?
• The trend towards variable tolls
• My Ingrid Betancourt link
• Buy Nothing Day
• Our supermarket fantasy
• Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008
• Prix Pictet for Sustainablility – Water
• 10 things to do to avoid extinction
• Blog Action Day 2008
• So long and thanks
• Sustainable blogging?
• This death is brought to you by…
• Do we need to rush into biofuel?
• Does the Hinayana have Buddha Nature?
• Ways to promote public transport
• Don’t bother wasting your energy on Energy Saving Day
• 50 facts that should change the world
• Protest against blog advertising
• 1 word = 20 grains
• Differance, No-self and ecological interconnectedness
• Could this be the ‘golden bullet’ for CO2?
• Two years of (un)sustainability
• Do we need an Ecological Buddhism?
• Play
• Pause
• Population growth, governments and the media
• Colourful and confusing
• What it takes to recycle all the cars in Japan
• Low-tech is the answer… partly
• Technology isn’t the answer
• An Inconvenient Attitude
• Mind your language – Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness
• One year of sustainability theory dharma
• Affluence, the individual and society
• Gross National Happiness is, well… gross
• My thumbs down to Tradable Energy Quotas
• So from which end of the wire shall we pollute the Earth with?
• Flickr Uploadr 2.3 problem and fix
• A green politican acts and speaks big
• Australia and China signs uranium agreement
• Oze to become national park
• Japan… more productivity, smaller population?
• Don’t get confused
• Japanese government to set new “sea sanctuary” category
• Searching for Bobby Fischer’s playing partner
• Is cloned food safe?
• Seeing Red and White
• Recharge or reduce?
• Blogging is work!
• Arctic ice shelf breaks off
• Floods in Aceh kill 120
• Saddam’s death and karma
• Polar bears and skiing
• Reviving literature
• Will science save the planet?
• The Earth, its environment and resources
• Spinsters and Hinayana Buddhism
• Postmodernism2
• Dragonfly
• Human/Nature
• Mara’s Dictionary – internet security
• Postmodernism1
• The problem with trying to reduce greenhouse gases
• California to cut greenhouse gas emission
• Safe searching with SiteAdvisor
• Books
• How to host a world religion congress and become known to the world
• bttb
• New magazine on sustainability – “Sasutena”
• Honda to mass-produce bioethanol vehicles
• Interconnectness and Differance
• Difference and Differance
• The ocean, microbes and biodiversity
• Rethinking population
• Zero degrees of separation to Jimmy Carter
• China – the “new face” on the environmental scene
• The True (Techni)colours of Al Gore
• The relativity of “theory”
• Mr Blair, thermostats and nuclear power
• What exactly is Postmodernism?
• SDB News – May 2006
• Paradigm shift, dolphins, language
• Why this blog was aimed at the wrong audience
• Research needed on marine sound
• Bruce Springsteen in New Orleans
• 102 People… Oh, and One Whale
• Glaciers heading for a quick melt
• What is theory?
• Diversity and microgeneration
• Water is the government’s responsibility
• Happy Birthday, Dr David Suzuki
• Woking the Green Path
• Buddhist practice may help spread the bird flu
• Mara’s Dictionary – government; politics
• Nature+Youth=Environmentalism
• Mara’s Dictionary
• What Is Sustainability?
• 30 Days of Sustainability
• Micro-generation
• Information Superhighway I
• “Not Necessary”…
• Environmentalism Is Not Religion
• A Short Introduction to the Buddha
• Sadly, Towards Urbanization
• Are We to Blame for Climate Change?
• Moderation – Buddhism and Sustainability
• Environment and Sustainability Humour
• The “Value” of Money
• Three Kinds of Lies
• The Reasoning of Reason
• Bottom Trawling in New Zealand
• The US and the Kyoto Protocol
• A “Healthy” Economy?
• Text and Scrutiny