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Conversation with a Prisoner on Death Row — A Second LetterIn his second letter to the condemned prisoner, NotImportant shares his own persecution in Singapore as dharma teaching, instructs on tantric chakra practice and the nature of bliss, and offers a Zen haiku as a month-long contemplation.Conversation with a Prisoner on Death Row — On BuddhismA dharma teacher corresponds with a condemned prisoner, answering his pointed questions about logic, reality, karma, and the nature of mind.Introduction to alt.religion.buddhismA scholarly introduction to alt.religion.buddhism — the broad-audience Usenet newsgroup for Buddhist discussion from the 1990s through the early 2010s, and the four gems recovered from its 28,542-post archive.Tail Wagging the Dog — On Breath Awareness and Meditation PostureA Singaporean lay Vajrayana practitioner critiques the 'noting' method in Vipassana as consciousness following its objects like a tail wagging a dog, and offers a reinterpretation of breath awareness from the Satipathana Sutta.The Tools of Vajrayana — An Explanation of Tibetan Buddhist PracticeEvelyn Ruut's practitioner account of Vajrayana Buddhism — covering visualization, mantra, ritual, meditation, the intellect, and the teacher as tools for the dissolution of the ego and the realization of emptiness.