Tasshin's Blog

Hi! I’m Tasshin! I am bringing loving kindness into the world for the benefit of all beings. 💗

“All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good.”
– Peace Pilgrim

Loving Kindness

Loving kindness, or mettā, is one of the most powerful meditation techniques that I’ve found. It’s relatively easy, extremely enjoyable – even blissful – and it can genuinely change your life.

• Learn about Loving Kindness: Practicing Love 📝
• Practice Mettā with Tasshin (live): Saturday Night Metta 📆
• Practice Mettā with Tasshin (recordings): Guided Metta Meditations 🎧
• Take the 30 Day Mettā Challenge 💗

My Writing

I write about meditation, Buddhism, productivity, strategy, and more.

Here are the blog posts and resources that I think are my best:

Meditation

• An Introduction to Buddhism
• Meditation Tips for a Lifetime of Practice
• Practicing Love
• The Benefits of Standing Meditation

Monasteries

• Trustworthy Leaders
• The Problems We Face
• What is a Monastery?
• Monasteries of the Future: A Summary

Productivity

• Digital Productivity Coach
• Use The Right Tool For The Job
• The Case for First-Brain Memory

Strategy

• Monastic Strategy
• The Art of Alliances
• The Strategic Theory of John Boyd
• Burja Mapping Series
• The Punk Strategy Guide to the Logical Thinking Process

Around the Web

• Twitter: kind, introspective, curious, playful tweets 🐦
• YouTube Channel + Podcast: in-depth, intimate, inspiring conversations with a wide variety of interesting characters; experimental, exploratory vlog episodes 🎥
• Newsletter: cozy, vulnerable, inspiring, irregular updates 💌

You can support my work through Patreon. 🙏

My Name

My name, Tasshin (達真) means to reach or achieve truth. You can pronounce it “toss shin” (that’s the Americanized pronunciation) or “toss sheen” (the Japanese pronunciation). I received this name in 2018, when I took bodhisattva vows with my teachers Shinzen Young and Soryu Forall.

Now

• I am currently in Austin!
• I have begun working on writing a book on loving kindness meditation. The draft is available here, and you are welcome to comment on it or make suggestions.
• My current interests: Sun Tai Chi, Zhan Zhuang, dance, self-therapy techniques, and marketing. ⚡️

Contact

Feel free to reach out to say hi on Twitter (@tasshinfogleman) or by email ([email protected]).

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License

Original writing on this website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Images by Sílvia Bastos are also licensed under the same license.

Where I use or cite other authors or creators, it is under fair use, and copyright is retained by the original creators, unless an alternative CC license is mentioned.

Disclaimers

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