An Old Song for a New Year: Going into 2026 with a Silent Night - The Tattooed Buddha This year we do not sing to be louder than the past or braver than the future. Maybe we do not try to outrun who we were twelve months ago or audition a shinier self for the year ahead. Maybe we let t...

A silent night does not mean an empty one.

It means a night spacious enough to hold grief and gratitude, fatigue and hope, without forcing them to perform.

-Kellie Schorr
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Returning to Self - The Tattooed Buddha Returning to self is noticing both: feeling the steadiness inside and stepping into the self that faces the world with authenticity.

When people talk about “returning to ourselves,” it sounds simple, almost wholesome, until you try to touch the self they mean.
- George Cassidy Payne
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Does AI Have Buddha-Nature? - The Tattooed Buddha AI doesn’t experience things. It doesn’t even experience nothing. It’s basically a zombie. We anthropomorphize it to describe what it’s doing, but it isn’t doing anything from its frame of reference. ...

There are AI Buddhas who can share all of the teachings with you, but do they have Buddha-nature?

~ By Johnathon Lee

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What We Share: The Universal Threads of Being Human - The Tattooed Buddha No matter our lineage, language, practice, or path, there are sacred rhythms that tether us to each other.

No matter our lineage, language, practice, or path, there are sacred rhythms that tether us to each other.

~George Cassidy Payne

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Milarepa and Buddhist Under-Achievers - The Tattooed Buddha I was on the point of abandoning Buddhism a few months ago.I’d hit a brick wall. Every time I sat down to meditate, I was flooded with anxiety. The mind seemed to take more pleasure in intrusive thoug...

I was on the point of abandoning Buddhism a few months ago.
I’d hit a brick wall.

-Tim Cooper

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The Soul or the Self: Both are Non-existent - The Tattooed Buddha Without a designer deity, what determined the person you’re meant to be? Nature?

Science opened the door to atheism, and atheism to egoism. That’s where we are.

~by Johnathon Lee

#atheism #buddhism #ego #buddhistwriter

The Space Between Breaths by Kellie Schorr {Book Review} - The Tattooed Buddha When Kellie Schorr messaged me asking if I would review her upcoming book, The Space Between Breaths, I was not only grateful, I was chomping at the bit.

The Space Between Breaths is a mystery, but not just any mystery.

#buddhistfiction #buddhistwriter #mystery #bookreview

Me, Bankei, and Real Silence - The Tattooed Buddha One of the observations I've made is that many teachers mention silence as something to pursue. It's confusing because the awakened condition is beyond silence or noise, thinking or non-thinking, good...

The experience of silence is presented as equivalent to the absence of thinking. But where, then, is the fruit of practice during daily life when noise and thinking are present?

-Angel Roberto Puente

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The Right Words - The Tattooed Buddha I am thankful a three-year-old girl had the right words to bring my wife to tears. Happy tears.

“I was on the playground when a three-year-old girl I have cared for before came up to me and said to me in her adorable little voice, “I like when you are here.”
-By Louis DeLauro

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