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Back when I tilted fully into "Buddhism" - scare quotes just to show "it" in the hypostasized way I thought of "it" - after some traumatic business in 2011 I picked up Basic Teachings of the Buddha plus Buddhavacana, working through basic-er Pali that summer with that, some grammars culled online, and Takakusu's chrestomathy. Basic Teachings went to Japan with me later that year, still very much a favorite. It was interesting to see your writing / translations grow gradually less "buddhemic" from the Dhammapada through Basic Teachings down towards SNB. Could really feel where it was going in the preface to Buddhavacana.
Then I came across the SNB blog completely by chance in early 2013, and what a rollicking great year that was with you and Tom and Tutteji. People were getting eviscerated, there! Me not least among them. Much lurking, only posted once (briefly). Took a few years on it. As suggested.
And here I've come back again having not quite read through the Critique and - holy wow - there's a *new* book just out a month ago and everything going on at Incite Seminars and yep, this is a good way.
Gonna have to shuffle over to Patreon in a bit and drop in on the Sanskrit Sangha. Until then, kick out the jams and all that. -
I just bought your book "The Dhammapada: Verses on the Way." Looking forward to reading your version. Thank you.
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Glenn I just finished watching your interview 'What Will it Take to Save Mindfulness? A Critic's Reflection'..wow what a refreshing viewpoint. I remember when I completed my dissertation one of the members of my committee said to me" Marlon the best advice I have about this work is..don't be a sell out" It took me some time to figure out what he meant, but after some reflection and watching your interview, it has become a bit more clear what he meant. I think that it is important that we critique the western concepts of mindfulness and truly question our intention about its use in our society. It seems that money and creating passive practitioners (going to the Yoga Studio and going home), without asking folks to challenge their thoughts and behaviors and in particular how the continue to support institutional racism.
I know this is a long rant and I could write a ton more, but I just wanted to let you know that I appreciated your perspective on the topic.
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Hi Phyllis. What good timing! Yes, we are going to experiment with online sessions. The first one is June 29. You can read about it here: https://tinyurl.com/yy7pngje. We will also have a gathering to discuss online community this Saturday. Read about that here: https://tinyurl.com/y2q6w79n. I hope you will join us. Thank you for your interest.
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Would you ever consider a seminar via computer? For people who can’t come to Philadelphia.
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Hi Glenn!
I´m reading your "Critique" with great interest and understanding of your point. In my country it´s an expensive book, but we have public libraries, so I can still read it. I just want you to know that I like the book very much, I´m not finished with it yet and I`ll probably read it twice or thrice! :)
With the very best regards in the Dhamma
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Hi Glenn. I'm not 100% sure if this is the right place to do this, but I just wanted to thank you for all the work you have put into speculativenonbuddhism.com. It is very insightful and well written, and you have clearly put a lot of effort into it.
English is my secondary language, so I have struggled to get through most of your articles. I had to look up dozens of words from most articles, and read up on the concepts and thinkers you reference. As a result of this I have not only gained a new understanding of the problems western Buddhism has to overcome, but also expanded my English vocabulary quite a bit as well as being exposed to several non-buddhist thinkers I previously was unaware of, or only knew by name. Again thanks a lot! Looking forward to seeing how the blog develops in the future! -
I read your Article "Gautama vs. the Buddha" on lionsroar.com. I am looking to re-incarnate myself once again at age 59 utilizing za-zen and the services of my psychotherapist. As an older atheist/parochial (catholic) schoolboy I'm not very interested in religion. I want to learn and practice a better way of "human being" as you so eloquently state in your article. I just ordered two of your books from alibris. Thanks for doing the work that you do.
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Mr Wallis
I recently started a new blog: "MakeAmericaModerateAgain" (link below). In a few of my initial posts, I had the opportunity to quote from your excellent translations of a couple of suttas from the Pali Canon (from "Basic Teachings of the Buddha"), so thanks! Here is the link:
https://diongsmith.blogspot.com/
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Dear Mr. Wallis, I'm also grateful for your great work and always come back to your translation of the Dhammapada.
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Mr Wallis. Having read several translations of the Dhammapada over the years; yours remains the most insightful – and as such a real benefit to my personal practice. Thank you.
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Dear Glenn,
I just want to thank you for the work you are doing on Speculative Non-Buddhism. I have been following the blog for a few months, and have since become an avid reader. I'm a senior in college and have been practicing x-buddhisms for about 7 years. The discovery of your blog has brought about an amazing shift in my internal life. S.N.B is truly an organon of nihilistic dissolution in the best way. It brought the ways in which I cling to buddhist teachings into sharp relief.
Thanks again for the compassion and tools for destruction.
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Stoked to have found your website and SNB as well. I've had a copy of your translation of the Dhammapada for years but I had no clue about your other writings! I get the sense that I have found
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Your note [16.12] in Basic Teachings of the Buddha made my day.
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I reread your \"Essential Teachings of Buddha\" while on 10 day course (I know, I broke a rule). I enjoyed it and it complimented the course perfectly.
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Stopping here (and the other spots I find you) helps me refocus, find the ground. You're good like that, Glenn.
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Hi recently read your basic teaching of Buddhism and it's an immensely well written but like you said Buddha was an Indian mendicant did not complete my reading he was born in Nepal.
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Dr. Wallis:
This is Dan Moore from UGA.I took your class 10 years ago. Just wanted to say you were the best professor I ever had. Hope all is well. -
Dennis asks:
"Are there any plans to make CT|SP available in ebook form?"
Yes, the press is looking into to the best method of delivering the book electronically. Should be soon. I'll announce it on this site and on the Speculative Non-Buddhism blog. Thanks for your
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Thanks for all the work that you have done at SNB. The ideas presented there have contributed to the continued fashioning of the ramshackle edifice known as my worldview. May it continue!
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Hi Glenn, I'm a big fan (ugh! How cliche, and yet...). I love your work and your approach. Ill write you more on that another time. For now, there is a painting on the page of your essay "Works of
the Spirit and the Hardness of Fate" which shows a tree fecund with animals and birds, etc. I was in rapt amazement at its depiction of exuberance. Could you please tell me the title and artist?
Thank you. -Bryant Guy -
BIBLE
NO GOD
PHILOSOPHY 101
BUDDHA
"NOBLE TRUTHS" ?
"PREEMINENT REALITIES" YES!
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A lifelong on again/off again interest in meditation led me recently to an interest in Buddhist philosophy (i am not Buddhist). Tom suggested your blog to me back in December--I met him on a
discussion board at one of the big glossies. Anyway, I follow your SNB blog every day (even thought about making it my home page)...what an unusual discussion of Buddhism, the only one of its kind
I'm aware of, a rare gem. Thank you, thank you. Sorry I haven't been able to bring much to the feast...yet.
Love Ovenbird as well.
Keep up the great work and thanks again.
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Glenn. Just read your essay, "Buddhist Manifesto", I really enjoyed it and appreciated it. I particularly enjoyed your reasoned style. You're very clear and persuasive. My wife has made me some hot
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I don't know what link enabled me to stumble upon speculativenonbuddhism, but I've become strangely addicted. I don't understand a lot of it, but as an on-and-off flirter with Buddhism over the last
30 years (more off than on) snb seems to be raising the sort of questions I keep coming back to. -
Glowing up in Tokyo and being absorbed by music in my teens, I stumbled across FIAT LUX in high school, 1986 I think, and that LP made an impression on me instantly. Yes, FIAT LUX was available as an
import in Japan at a record store called DISK UNION. ...Just wanted to say thanks! -
Something about me? Non-Buddhist Zen Bastard.
Found my way here through looking up bhāvanā on the internet. Directed to this file:
Glenn Wallis, Bhavana: A Guide to Classical Buddhist Meditation, 2009, draft copy, p. 7 http://www.glennwallis.com/files/Bhavana_6-20-09.pdf
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For the love of God, keep wirting these articles.
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