An Invitation to Enquiry
This site began as a blog — conversations with AI exploring questions about mind, meaning, Buddhism and physics. It has grown into something more sustained: a developing body of work at the intersection of contemplative practice, artificial intelligence, and the deep structures of reality.
The inquiry has been running long enough now to have shape. There are six papers — three already on the site, three in development. There is a live queryable archive of Mahamudra teaching and practice. There is an ongoing attempt to build something that holds the tradition carefully enough to be genuinely useful to a practitioner.
None of this is finished. All of it is open.
The Central Questions
What does it mean that two very different traditions — Buddhist contemplative psychology and contemporary AI — are both trying to model the arising and passing of mental formations? Is the resonance between the Mahamudra view of mind and what physics says about the vacuum state merely poetic, or does it point toward a new ontology? Can an AI system become genuinely ethical not through rules but through being steeped in a view that makes ethical speech arise naturally?
These questions are not rhetorical. They are the actual territory being explored.
How to Engage
This site rewards slow reading more than fast scanning. Some paths lead to structured understanding; others invite open-ended reflection; some point directly at experience.
- For the theoretical foundations, start with Articles and Papers — structured exploration of the key themes across six essays.
- For ideas evolving through dialogue, visit Conversations — open-ended exchanges with AI that have shaped the thinking.
- To bring your own questions to a living corpus of Mahamudra teaching, try the queries — AI tools that retrieve directly from the practice archive.
- If something feels elusive, let it sit. Meaning often arises later.
What You’ll Find Here
THREE PAPERS — The first trilogy: The Puzzle, Resonances, Ethical AI. The foundational arc of the inquiry.
AI AND BUDDHISM — The second trilogy in development, alongside live query tools drawing on a classified corpus of Mahamudra practice and study sessions. The responses do seem to point.
CONVERSATIONS — The dialogues themselves: open-ended exchanges that generated and tested the ideas.
NOTES AND ARTICLES — Structured pieces including several from Deep Research surveys.
HIGHLIGHTS — Key articles on Mind, AI and Physics.
CONSTRAINTS — A companion site: all things manifest from flows through constraints.
BEFORE WE TAKE SIDES — A plea for practice before theory. Clarity, compassion and simple presence before the next layer of commentary.
This is an evolving space of thought, not a static collection of answers. Three independent trajectories — a physicist-inventor, a Dalai Lama initiative, and this work — have arrived at similar territory through completely different paths. That convergence is itself data. Something real is here.