Essays

Stories, reflections, and lessons gathered from a lifetime of practice, pilgrimage, and unexpected encounters.

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Conditioned and Unconditioned Knowledge

There are two kinds of knowledge. One is built from observation, inference, and measurement — knowledge that is always about something, always mediated, always bounded by its own methods. The other is prior to all of that. It cannot be acquired because it is never absent.

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Four Lives, One Thread

I have lived, by most reckonings, four very different lives: musician, spiritual disciple, software engineer, and independent sādhu. I am now, in some sense, all four simultaneously — which is perhaps why the work I am doing with SpecStudio feels less like a new direction than an arrival.

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