Misc. Writings

While we have an index page devoted solely to Scott’s musings on the Zhuangzi, here is where you will find the index to the rest of his writings.  Topics covered include various writings about philosophical Taoism, Zen, Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism and several posts which defy isms altogether! 🙂

September 2013
The Seventh Seal Revisited, Part 1 & Part 2

July 2013
Six Daos

May 2013
More on Xunzi, Part 4: Benevolent Soldiers ♦ “God in the Dock” ♦ On Being Momentary, Part 1 ♦ On (Not) Being Queer ♦ Selections from Xunzi, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 & Part 6

April 2013
Being Responsible ♦ Occupying Oneself, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 & Part 5 ♦ More on Happiness ♦ Being a Snake ♦ Response to Panikkar, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ Do Ideas Matter? ♦ Cutting a Path to the River ♦ The Human Hill ♦ Jesus Lived for Your Sins ♦ Upaya: Universal Provisionality ♦ This Statement Is False ♦ Trinitarian Reality ♦ The One and Oneness ♦ The Land Up-Over

March 2013
Embracing Futility ♦ The Plumage We Have ♦ The Unity of Is ♦ Subsumed But Affirmable ♦ Seeing the Ant ♦ Only a Sage Would Know ♦ Always Perfect ♦ Grafted to Identity ♦ The Transforming Nature ♦ What Does Dao Lack? ♦ One of Us ♦ A Cure for Bad Medicine ♦ Smelling the Flowers ♦ The True Way ♦ Living Reality ♦ The One Revealed, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ No More, Still More ♦ Heart to Heart ♦ Dao Falls Again ♦ Natural Healing ♦ I Had No Idea ♦ Name, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Shame, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Blame ♦ Apophatism ♦ The Dry Heaves ♦ The Simple Way, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 ♦ The Way of Yin

February 2013
The Shamanic Life-World ♦ The Best They Can ♦ Your Hard-Heartedness ♦ On Hypocrisy ♦ Evil in a Deck of Cards, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Observe Together ♦ The Tyranny of Ideas ♦ Miserably Wise ♦ True Forgiveness ♦ How to Be Heavenly ♦ Nothing to Do ♦ Righteous Non-Anger ♦ Who’s to Blame? ♦ Speaking for the Forest

January 2013
The Church of Me ♦ The Urge to Merge ♦ All About Me ♦ Deeply Offended ♦ I Just Wanna Be Someone ♦ I Don’t Think of You ♦ Just Say No to Preconditions

December 2012
Going Against the Grain ♦ Transparently Grounded ♦ A Great Gift ♦ The Twenty-Seventh Candle ♦ The Church of Pernicious Oneness Revisited

November 2012
Global Responsibility ♦ Homo Sapiens: From Ascent to Extinction ♦ Why I Support[ed] Romney ♦ Making the Tally Whole ♦ Extending De ♦ From the Book of Tzu-Youzi: Neither Rank Nor Sweet ♦ From the Book of Tzu-Youzi: The Stream of Transformation

October 2012
The Xin-Xin Ming, Part 9 & Part 10 ♦ Letting Things Happen ♦ Blessed Are the Meek ♦ The Night Horizon ♦ The Simple Way I: Embracing the Mess ♦ Yes and No ♦ Metaphysical Nakedness ♦ Sinlessness ♦ Nietzsche II: The Will to Power ♦ Nietzche III: A Sense of History ♦ Nietzche VI: The Uber-Man ♦ Nietzche VII: The Final Recurrence – Yes! ♦ At the End of All Belief

September 2012
Straight Shooting ♦ One Tiny Ember, Part 1 ♦ Letting the Spark Die ♦ Hearts Unfold ♦ Perfection ♦ Trust Yourself ♦ The True Liberal ♦ Like the Seasons ♦ Selections from Gibran ♦ Who Would Have Thought It? ♦ Neither Nor ♦ Exceptions to the Rule ♦ The Enlightened Drone ♦ Homo Viator ♦ The Quibbling Mind ♦ Alas, It’s Not About Me ♦ How to Boil Water ♦ Truth Is Subjectivity ♦ Religious Naturalism ♦ Unborn Again ♦ Trusting Trust ♦ Spirituality Is Psychological ♦ Dust in the Wind ♦ The Xin-Xin Ming, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 & Part 8

August 2012
Rabbit Stew Happens ♦ The Chasm ♦ The View from Dao ♦ Ordinary Mind Is Dao ♦ Excruciating Inner Anguish ♦ The Emptiness ♦ The Four Spiritual Laws ♦ In the Beginning, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Human Nature, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ No More ♦ Getting It ♦ Facts ♦ Namelessness ♦ Finding a Model ♦ Truly Amoral ♦ Repent and Be Saved! ♦ True Sex ♦ A Good Spiritual Shit ♦ In Your Face ♦ Amazing Grace ♦ Sputtering

July 2012
None of This Is True ♦ Gateless Dao ♦ On Being the Absolute Master ♦ So What?? ♦ Mu, Part 1 & Part 2  ♦ Loving What Is, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ Causation, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ On Being Dao ♦ The Altar Call ♦ Just As It Is ♦ Do the Dishes, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ How to Cure the Hiccoughs ♦ One Fist ♦ T.U.D. ♦ Being the Eternal Truth ♦ The End of Becoming ♦ Beyond Behavior ♦ Poor Kitty ♦ True Contentment ♦ Rice Bag! ♦ One Branch

June 2012
In the World ♦ Why I Don’t Support Obama ♦ Three Businesses ♦ Taking My Dao to the Laundromat ♦ The Way of Water: Occupying the Low Ground, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ The View From Nowhere ♦ Straw Dogs, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Dao I: Ultimate Reality ♦ Dao II: A State of Mind ♦ Dao III: A Way ♦ The World Made Up ♦ A Perfect Fit

May 2012
Spinoza: The Hideous Hypothesis ♦ Spinoza: Knowing Thyself ♦ Imagination: Or the Importance of Not Taking Things Too Seriously ♦ Vastness and Voidness ♦ Philosophical Daoism ♦ The Ironic Dao ♦ Riding the Dragon ♦ The Way of the Sage ♦ Loving What Is

April 2012
The Vastness ♦ Hedonists All ♦ March the Sixth ♦ The Apology ♦ Universal Priesthood, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ The Good Serpent ♦ The Golden Cowrie ♦ The 98 Percent ♦ Embracing the Inevitable, Part 2 ♦ Nothing Matters ♦ The Spirit of Nonpartisanship ♦ More on the Simple Way ♦ The “Boo”merang ♦ The Problem of Conscience, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ It’s God’s Dog ♦ A Potpourri of Quotes I ♦ Zero ♦ I Believe in God ♦ Going Viral II ♦ On Being Unlimited, Part 1 & Part 2

March 2012
Yuan Dao: Dao Surfing ♦ Yuan Dao: Emergent Dao ♦ Yuan Dao: A Heart Like a Mirror, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ Yuan Dao: Objectless Objectivity ♦ Relational Reality ♦ More on Getting It ♦ Turned Inside Out ♦ Finding a Standard ♦ Daoist Koans ♦ Nothing to Live For ♦ Hence I ♦ Hence II: Taking Your Placebo ♦ The Mess ♦ Dancing Your Own Dance ♦ Scott Bradley, Please Shut Up ♦ Should I Shut Up? ♦ Understanding the Journey, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Some Harmony, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Today I Mourn ♦ Cast Off the Lines, Part 1 & Part 2

February 2012
Theoretical Sages, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ A Box of Egos: Goodbye ♦ Imagine, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Accumulating Righteousness ♦ Drama ♦ Committing Yang ♦ To Nowhere and Back ♦ My Death Is Good ♦ Death Is Good ♦ Presuming Too Much ♦ You’re An Ass ♦ Following Two Taos ♦ Worrying the Bone ♦ About God ♦ Be Yourselves ♦ It’s Own Reward ♦ Self-Awareness ♦ The False Dilemma ♦ Hearing the Single Sound ♦ Herd Bound ♦ Why we Speak ♦ Critical Zero Revisited, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ Flux, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ The Confucian Project ♦ Empty Again, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Yuan Dao: “Han Thinking” ♦ Yuan Dao: The Sum of Daos ♦ Yuan Dao: Dao as Process

January 2012
A Vastness ♦ No Scripture ♦ On Being Soft ♦ Fleeing the World II ♦ Making the Way Great ♦ They Are the Same ♦ Making a Wheel ♦ Live and Let Live ♦ A Box of Egos ♦ On This Side of the Moon ♦ Living the Lie ♦ Ground Zero Revisited ♦ Call It Death ♦ A Box of Egos: An Update ♦ No-Soul ♦ The Way Fails Too ♦ Teachers ♦ Simply Bad ♦ Living With Vipers ♦ Do You Exist? ♦ A Box of Egos: Do They Exist? ♦ The Strong and the Weak ♦ Affirm or Deny ♦ The Wrecktification of Names ♦ The Field is Empty ♦ Why I Am Not a Taoist ♦ A Box of Egos: Are They Real? ♦ A Heart Like a Meadow ♦ Assertiveness and Receptivity, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ Speaking of Insufficiency, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Speaking of Liberation ♦ A Box of Egos: Are They All the Same?

December 2011
The Problem with Buddhism ♦ Foolsball ♦ Empathy ♦ Zen and Tao ♦ Hsin-Hsin Ming, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 & Part 10 ♦ Meister Eckhart, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Being Nothing ♦ Self-Improvement, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 ♦ Letting Be, Part 1 & Part 2 ♦ Madhyamika ♦ Great Smiles ♦ True Self Is No Self ♦ The Senseless ♦ Big Hair ♦ Isn’t This Fun? ♦ Climbing the Inner Mountain ♦ You ♦ Where Are the Prophets? Lo Ami ♦ More or Less ♦ Getting It ♦ I Feel My Yang Arisin’ ♦ No Conditions to Meet ♦ Two Moons ♦ A Response to Yang Rising and Other Stuff ♦ Is There Death Before Life?, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 ♦ How I’m Different

November 2011
Do We Require a Teacher? ♦ Unfettered ♦ Nihilism ♦ Click, Click, Click + Minding the Essential Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ Pfft! ♦ Yes…But ♦ Pure-Heartedness ♦ Neurological Enlightenment, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ Hard Words ♦ Being and Becoming, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ Get Along Little Doggie ♦ How I Became Immortal and Saved the World from Mindless Bliss ♦ The Sage Is No One ♦ How To Be Sick

October 2011
Finding Your Master + Knowing Thyself + Contention + Realizing More Self + More About Words + Gain & Loss + The Most Intimate + Are You Deluded? + Here I Stumble, Part 1 + Immortality + The Wrong Way + Wu-Wei + Merit + Bringing It All Together, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 + The Story, Part 1 & Part 2, I, Heretic + An Apology…Sort Of + Pernicious Oneness + Prescriptions + Subjective Thinking + Moo! + Finding Nothing + Compassion + Alan Watts Didn’t Get It + The Mouse Wars

September 2011
Monism + Hallejulah + All Too Clear + Zen Kusai + Taking Zen to the Laundry Mat + The Attainment of Non-Attainment + A Boneless Tongue + Heroes + Over-Belief + You Stink + The Tomato + The Cat Killer + Morbidity Rules + Clearly + Anonymous I + Clearly II + The Ordinary Mind + Anonymous 2A: Condemned by Heaven + Mazu + What I Believe + Xuedou: Two Too Many + A Sticky View + Beyond Good and Evil + Suicide: What a Chuckle + Anonymous 3A & 3B

August 2011
Against Polemics + 500 Words + Myth, Faith and Trust + Blabber + Creation Groaneth + Riding An Ox + Out of the Tao + The Uncarved Block + It Matters Not + Nothing To Become + Every Day + Begging Water + This Road + A Leap of Faith + The Perennial Religion + The Solitary Path + The Meeting + The Way Out + Full Of It + “This” + Letting Go + Here There Was a Barn + Did Mickey Laugh? + Metaphysical Realism + Closer to Reality? + Happiness

July 2011
Critical Zero + Exceptional Men + Which Way? + Opinions + Love + A Philosophy of Cope + I Am a Mystery + Thanks + Ontic Apophaticism + One Noble Question + Is + Critical Zero II + Yes! II + This Is It + Inside Out + If You Meet the Buddha + Gates + Religious Atheism

June 2011
Willy the Worm + A Gift from the Earth + Wasted Lives + The Golden Line of Truth + Duskies + A Sea of Grass + Grace + The Truth + Wildness + Thank You Snake! + Ahimsa + A World Without You + The Flower Unseen + Man on the Moon + Advaita I + The Jains + The New Age Meets the New World Order + Optimistic Pessimism + The Pride of Life + My Satanic Verses + Other People

May 2011
In the Dock ♦ Ashamed ♦ Those Wily Taoists ♦ Selections From the Master ♦ Amen ♦ Finding the Bedrock ♦ Inclusion ♦ Insouciance ♦ Keep Out of the Reach of Children ♦ Rubbed the Wrong Way ♦ Trees ♦ Word-Worship ♦ Did the Jews Kill Jesus? ♦ Irony ♦ On Being Human ♦ Good Coffins ♦ Are We Still Here? ♦ True Believers ♦ Purpose ♦ Honesty ♦ Selections from Mencius I ♦ Selections from Mencius II ♦ Gone ♦ Bemuddled

April 2011
Just Now + Nothing’s Sacred ♦ Baad Karma ♦ Seng Ts’an: The Third Zen Patriarch ♦ Seng Ts’an: The Hsin-Hsin Ming ♦ Silence ♦ Fa-Jung ♦ Ma-Tsu ♦ Word-Crime ♦ Why I Don’t Respond ♦ A Piece of Shit ♦ Meditative Activity ♦ Philosophy ♦ Like Water ♦ Thankfulness Arises ♦ No Conditions to Meet ♦ Dear Diary ♦ On Being a Sage ♦ Feng Lui ♦ Surrender in Trust ♦ Cross-Eyed

March 2011
Spiritual Warfare, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 ♦ The Project: A Disclaimer ♦ The Project: Growing a Philosophy of Life ♦ Let’s Pretend: How Would It Feel…? ♦ How Would It Feel? ♦ Mysticism Without Metaphysics ♦ Tao in the Age of Dinosaurs II ♦ Gnosticism  ♦ The Brain Is the Mind ♦ Expose Yourself + The Wiz I ♦ The Wiz II: The Wicked Witch ♦ The Wiz III ♦ Yes! ♦ Kierkegaard ♦ Right and Wrong ♦ Experiencing Understanding ♦ What’s At Stake Here? ♦ Affirmation ♦ Socrates: A Man With a Mission ♦ Socrates: The Midwife ♦ Socrates: On the Good ♦ Socrates: Know Thyself

February 2011
Self-Esteem…Who Needs It? ♦ Beware the Smile of Eli

2010
Mr. Ray, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 ♦ Rooted in the Boundless ♦ Tao in the Age of Dinosaurs