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Script: Defining Dharma

A Journey to the West

# Introduction > [On-screen title: *Defining Dharma: A Journey to the West*] > [Cut to a slow pan across ancient stone carvings, manuscripts, and cult...

Bizarre YouTube Censorship

wtf? SRSLY? :facepalm:

Some friends and I have a YouTube channel called ['a secular dharma?'](https://youtube.com/@aseculardharma). This channel has long -- often boring -- ...

Defining Dharma

ways, paths, cultures, outlooks

## The Etymology of 'Dharma' The word *dharma* is one of the most enduring and multifaceted terms in human thought, with deep roots in ancient Indian ...

2017: a return to kyoto

this is a video from a point-of-view perspective that i took while walking around the kyoto imperial palace grounds. it was during a solo visit to jap...

Escape at 14

A nothing story

I was 14, a quiet boy living in an outer suburb of a small and isolated city called Perth1, in a large and remote state called Western Australia, in a...

Gary Dean

From the West, Northward to the East

I was born and raised in [Perth, Western Australia](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth), in the pre-[Sputnik](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1) era, and b...

Meet Gary Dean

A Jakarta Expat interview with Gary Dean

Parts of this interview were published in Jakarta Expat, March 2013 Jakarta Expat: So Gary, where do you come from, where did you grow up? Gary Dean: ...

An Ungrateful Australian

On Tuesday, 17 December 2002, BM wrote: I think, on balance, that if I am to be ruled, I would much rather be ruled by complete fucking moron civilian...

dikotomi

digital music experiments from 2002

dikotomi is a collection of atmospheric midi music, best experienced whilst sailing through the open air in a solar-powered airship, at moderate altit...

Airship Over Occussi

Songs from 1983

Songs recorded "live" on a cheap cassette recorder at various locations in Fremantle, Western Australia during 1983 (or was it 1984?).  The recor...