I’ve been unexpectedly Buddhist for the past month!
A year ago, my spouse Charlie Awbery co-founded a Buddhist community, Evolving Ground. A few weeks ago, we traveled to Colorado, where Charlie met co-founder Jared Janes IRL for the first time, and they completed a bunch of organizational work.
The Evolving Ground website is now live, after a year in stealth mode.
Evolving Ground is developing a contemporary Vajrayana Buddhism, roughly along the lines I proposed in Vividness ten years ago. Before the past month, I had zero time available to be involved. Over the past few weeks, I’ve put all my creative time into it—which means I have not written about nihilism, as I had intended. Perhaps I can find some balance from now on!
I wrote a relevant web page on Vividness, “How to learn Buddhist tantra.” This page is not about Buddhist tantra, it’s a manual for how to learn to do it. It collects advice I’ve heard from many Buddhist teachers. It’s especially relevant for anyone getting started practicing non-traditional approaches to Vajrayana, but may be interesting for anyone learning meditation with one-on-one meetings with a mentor, and perhaps for other sorts of personal apprenticeships.