The Zen Psychedelic

Start Where You Are

As long as you're seeking, you're not practicing. A Zen reflection on goal-setting.

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December 2025

Unfortify Your Mind

The Stoics taught us to construct an inner fortress to withstand life’s blows. Zen teaches the opposite... to drop the walls entirely.

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November 2025

Black Swan

Every civilization thinks it can outsmart chaos. Then a Black Swan lands.

Nov 24, 2025 • The Zen Psychedelic

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What Can’t Be Said

A meditation on the vast distance between words & truth.

Nov 17, 2025 • The Zen Psychedelic

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A Beautiful Sunrise

A Zen Koan.

Nov 13, 2025 • The Zen Psychedelic

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September 2025

On Being Lost

Advice from the wise for when you’re feeling lost in life and direction.

Sep 29, 2025 • The Zen Psychedelic

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Uncertainty

Losing my home showed me I never truly had one.

Sep 15, 2025 • The Zen Psychedelic

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Almost Everything Is Fake

The shadow on the wall is a distortion of the truth that cast it. Turn and face the light.

Sep 8, 2025 • The Zen Psychedelic

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August 2025

Tendō (天道): Natural Order

Life ripens on its own time. Freedom comes when you stop forcing and start tending.

Aug 25, 2025 • The Zen Psychedelic

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Yūgen (幽玄): When the Universe Speaks Without Speaking

You won’t be able to explain it later — but you’ll remember how it felt.

Aug 4, 2025 • The Zen Psychedelic

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July 2025

Freedom Is What You’re Willing to Lose

Letting go is the only way out.

Jul 28, 2025 • The Zen Psychedelic

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Fūryū (風流): Poetic Sensibility

Fūryū means finding elegance in the ordinary — subtle, fleeting, and unforced. In Zen, it’s a way of living freely and beautifully, without trying to…

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