Adjacent Essays — Research — Thon Ly

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  1. The Breadth-Check Turned on the Work · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084938
  2. The Four Elements as a Breadth-Check Discipline: What Taoist Phases, Greek Substances, Hindu Mahābhūta, Astrological Temperaments, and the Pāli Cattāro Mahābhūtā Are Five Different Things Doing — and the One Discipline They Together Compose · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22736257
  3. The Water Cycle · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22735468
  4. One Percent of the Economy Decides the Rest · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084914
  5. A Vow You Could Have Refused · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084922
  6. Diaspora-to-Cambodia Gratitude Remittance: An Economic-Anthropological Account of Ritualized Cross-Border Gratitude Flow · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084946
  7. How to Change the World · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084918
  8. The Borrowed Light: Seven Moons Over HeartBank · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084987
  9. The Last Carrier ·
  10. The Letter I Never Sent ·
  11. The Lives That Fed Me ·
  12. The Name Is the First Gift ·
  13. The Nearest Attractive Neighbor ·
  14. The Pond at Night ·
  15. The Reflection Returned ·
  16. When the Dharma Is Lost: The Interrupted Song ·
  17. Designing with the Grain: When Institutional Trade-offs Dissolve into Coincidences of Goods · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084944
  18. The Societal Impact of Anonymous Nearby Thanking — with Time · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084926
  19. If Everyone Could Give: The World an Economy of Manufactured Giving Would Make · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084958
  20. The Gift of Gratitude: A Carrot Where Pain Used to Be · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084976
  21. The Capacity to Give: Why People Come for What They Can Give, Not What They Get · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084972
  22. A Living Made of Kindness: Right Livelihood for the Age of Automation · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084968
  23. The Bodhisattva Santa: Why the Greatest Gift Is the Gift of Giving · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084980
  24. The Two Teslas: Which Inheritance of Nikola Tesla's Legacy Is the Faithful One · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084978
  25. Love and Freedom Are the Two Faces of Dependent Origination: Why the Non-Attachment That Frees Is the Non-Separateness That Loves, and What That Means for an Aligned Intelligence · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084966
  26. The Breadth-Check Turned on the Self: Running the Five-Operation Elemental Discipline on a Philosophy of Life — and Why a Worldview Passes the Breath-Check by Self-Regulating, Not by Being Symmetrical ·
  27. Emotional Infrastructure as a Public Good · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084954
  28. Scarcity Shifts to Authenticity · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084916
  29. Father-Son Khmer Tipiṭaka Transcription as Alignment Work: Lineage Transmission as De Facto AI Safety Research · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084956
  30. The Scientific Case for Gratitude-Based Social Media · · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084928