Aug 31, 2020Upcoming Talks by Christian FanliA series of upcoming talks starting in September. The talks are about my personal experiments with truth. Subscribe to get invites to events and links to recordings. “Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.” ― Longchenpa (UPDATES) Please refer here for the latest information on the upcoming series. The ScheduleLife7 min readLife7 min read
Jun 8, 2020Why I’m Not Angry and How We HealThoughts on race, identification, and discrimination I think we have many people hurting and trying to be available to them is maybe the best that I can offer. So in response to how I’m coping, I am feeling sad, deeply so. …Race11 min readRace11 min read
Jun 4, 2020Why I’m Not AngryThoughts on discrimination, race, and compassion in light of recent events I think we have many people hurting and trying to be available to them is maybe the best that I can offer. So in response to how I’m coping, I am feeling sad, deeply so. …Racism11 min readRacism11 min read
May 23, 2020The Art of Non DiscriminationHow to be at home in the world Overview: The root of discrimination is embedded within our ego formation. In order to have a self, we must create a distinction between self and other and this is where discrimination begins. Our intellect is trained to discriminate, primarily between what…Discrimination13 min readDiscrimination13 min read
May 18, 2020Experiments With Truth2020 Updates on Diet, Meditation, Technology, and Truth. I’m providing an update as many people have asked me how I’ve updated my schedule since becoming a zen monastic student. The most significant changes are that I am meditating and leading meditations much more (3–6 hours a day) as well as…Life2 min readLife2 min read
Dec 29, 2019Beyond Breadth and DepthBending the duality between breadth and depth When we consider how we should build our career or achieve some goal, we often fall to the dualism of going broad or deep. The idea is that one has to choose. Consider a capital T. We have used the T to talk…Life Lessons3 min readLife Lessons3 min read
Sep 17, 2019So you’re ready to try a plant-based diet?How to not only save the planet but gain wisdom from your journey In the face of climate change, our society is starting to slowly upgrade our collective ecological and ethical thinking around animal consumption and some of us may be looking for ways to cut back. …Health13 min readHealth13 min read
Sep 12, 2019Growing Up From Eating AnimalsThe experiment is over but yet we are still eating animals…Vegan4 min readVegan4 min read
Sep 10, 2019The Lives of Animals and Straight LifeThe experiment is over but yet we are still having this conversation… When we commodify animal life, it means we must destroy all of the animal's possibilities except the ones that provide us with tasty food in the most efficient manner. So that means the cow isn’t viewed as…Vegan3 min readVegan3 min read
Sep 5, 2019The Hill of the Cheapest PleasuresWhy we must grow out of our on imprisonment We can imagine we are hillclimbing and we’d like to climb to the top of the hill that maximises beings flourishing. We can also imagine that since the invention of social media and messaging apps along with similar agricultural age…Psychology3 min readPsychology3 min read