I am a dharma practitioner and lay renunciant, a writer, reader, and traverser of passages. In what now feels like a past life, I worked as an editor in literary publishing. Now in my 40s and on a pilgrimage to find the right community for monastic ordination. I have recently started identifying as an emerging independent researcher in transpersonal psychology and the convergence of science with dhamma.
You can find me on Mastodon, where I am escaping from big tech to do my part in serving the interests of privacy and digital sovereignty.
My name is Bodhi 心 Paine, I have 3.5 unfinished bachelor degrees, a number of Cert IVs, and my meandering employment journey has ranged from cleaning motel rooms, dish-pigging, deck-handing on a charter-angling boat, WWOOFing, installing luxury gardens with Australian natives, bush regeneration, and I nearly started a career as a mental-health peer-support worker before my marriage broke down and I decided now or never was the time to ordain. That was in late 2024 ~ the process to ordination is unfolding in its own time. The next prospect on my radar is Sāsanārakkha Buddhist Sanctuary in Malaysia, a pre-sectarian monastery in the Early Buddhist tradition.
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This website (and infrequent blog) started as a portfolio site when I went back to study creative-writing at uni, so includes an incomplete collection of the creative writing (fiction and non-fiction) I’ve produced and published over the years. For more about that, clock the menus, or here.
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