Inspired by a string of discussions I’ve had with close friends (Ryan, Walker, etc.), and through the reading and practicing I’ve done, I wrote an essay on GenSit entitled Normalizing the Big E. It’s an inquiry into what it would be like to treat enlightenment as something quite ordinary, instead of holding it as supernormal or as unattainable and unworthy of pursuit.
Vincent Horn is a Buddhist Geek, teacher, and explorer. In 2006 Vincent helped start, and now runs, a popular Buddhist media project called Buddhist Geeks. And with the encouragement of his teachers—after nearly a decade of intensive meditation practice in the Burmese and Thai Forest Theravada tradition—Vincent teaches both online, and in-person from the Blue Ridge Meditation Center in Asheville, North Carolina.