The term has been locked in a dark room since the mid eighteenth century, thanks to romanticism, whose founders were often men who had the luxury to wander through lush green pathways all day long, on filled stomachs and with a roof to return to. T
Author Archives: Jwalant Swaroop
The Self of a Buddha, one who had achieved cessation of attachment to the aggregates, could only be understood firsthand. One cannot convey enlightenment in words; one experiences it directly.
A few years later psychology professor Timothy Wilson and Jonathan Scholar repeated the experiment with the students from the university of Washington, the results were almost identical both students and experts preferred the same type but the that was only first part of Wilson”s experiment.
Arguably one of the most significant contributions of psychology is that our understanding of ourselves is more defined by what we believe in our heads than by the actual external world that we experience.
Social Loafing does not occur solely in physical performance we slack off mentally, too. For example in meetings the larger the team the weaker our individual participation. However, once a certain number of participants is involved,
Man has tried to be unnatural. We are not willing to be natural; all our culture and civilization have been nothing but an effort to be unnatural. We should not be as we are; we have to be something else. This race to be something else, something different, has destroyed all our spontaneity and naturalness. […]
They have added to the beauty of existence, but nobody should be so arrogant as to say, “I am the last.”
Well-intact emotional health helps us create more happiness in our lives. It does not mean that we have to always be happy, contrary to the common perception that someone who is emotionally doing fine is always happy. Rather, it means that we are happy and content at our core despite the hardships we face each day.
“Be in the moment” – no matter which part of the world we live in, all of us have heard this phrase at some point in our lives. And yet for some reason, we always find our heads anywhere except for in the present.
That is why Buddha was silent – because language cannot now express that which is beyond polarities. He cannot say, ” Now I am filled with filled with bliss” is possible only with a background of suffering and anguish.