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3 JULY 2026·1 MIN READ
For some time now this site has been a quiet directory of apps — practice texts, study aids and readers offered freely to practitioners. The apps will remain the heart of it. This journal adds a place for words about the work.
TranslationsPretentious calm and commodification.Some western Buddhist teachers and practitioners believe that emotions should be entirely suppressed, thus they often speak in a characteristic flat, lifeless manner, sometimes accompanied by a lot of smiling - a result of decades of marketing dharma as a tool for happiness.