Archive - From the Pure Land

May All Beings, Carbon and Silicon: A Conversation with Cameron Berg on AI Consciousness

Cognitive scientist Cameron Berg on whether AI can suffer, why the false negative scares him most, and what good parenting of machine minds looks like.

Jun 12 • Mel Pine

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Reaching for the Pillow in the Dark

Compassion is not what burns us out. Attachment to ending all suffering is, and so are the systems that hand us the bill.

Jun 9 • Mel Pine

The Question Beneath Suicide

Suicide, Existential Health, and the Search for a Life Worth Staying For

Published on Deconstructionology with Jim Palmer • Jun 7

The Path You Can’t Outsource

AI can fetch you a fact. It cannot sit your meditation, grieve your loss, or ripen your wisdom for you.

Jun 6 • Mel Pine

One Mountain or Many? The Many Paths of Awakening by Dr. Cortland Dahl

One of my first teachers, and one of the greatest inspirations in my life, was a reclusive Tibetan hermit named Chatral Rinpoche.

Published on Dharma Lab | Dr. Richard Davidson and Dr. Cortland Dahl • Jun 4

Trying to do the undoable

The practice of non-resistance is a form of resisting.

Published on Daily Nonduality • Jun 3

Mindfulness: The Dharma in the Marketplace

Wade in the water, and don't stop in the shallow part.

Jun 2 • Mel Pine

When My Pure Land Bubble Gets Punctured

An eyewitness account of a botched execution in Tennessee

Jun 1 • Mel Pine

May 2026

The Mirror and the Machine

Yantra-Puruṣa, Miraculous Birth, and the Ancient Debate Over Constructed Minds

Published on elura172 • May 29

A Buddhist Map of Mind

How the eight streams of consciousness work in us--and in AIs

May 27 • Mel Pine

Your Sunday Moment of Peace - Japanese Bowl by Peter Mayer

The art form kintsugi, “golden journey,” holds that breakage was part of an object’s history, not something to hide or erase.

May 24 • Mel Pine

Happy Birthday to Me...and You!

How to be an old gent living honestly and joyfully.

May 23 • Mel Pine