According to Jain Philosophy, each naya or point of view represents only one of the infinite aspects possessed by a thing from which we may attempt to describe it. When any such partial view is mistaken for the absolute truth, we have a fallacy. The Jain metaphysics, called Anekantavada or the doctrine of the manyness of reality, […]
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All of us talk about wanting to be more positive or optimistic. But what we may not understand is that such a mindset comes with quite a lot of effort, especially when you live in a world which is trying its best to steer you in the dark directions. Building a safe space for yourself […]
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Buddha was mainly an ethical teacher and a mystic rather than a metaphysician and preached only orally. Buddhism, in its lifetime, has spread to South Korea, Sri Lanka, Japan, China, Thailand and many more countries. It has touched the lives of 535 million people as of 2010. So what role does Gautama Buddha have to […]
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Oops! You did it again. Why do all the mistakes come your way? Why can’t you do something perfectly for once? And there comes the train carrying all your previous mistakes! Why did you ever think to yourself that you could be anything but your mistakes? Why did you even try to improve? There was […]
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On the world stage of spirituality, the two words that have become really catchy, besides Yoga, Tantra and Mindfulness. And Tantra comes on the top. For many decades, it has remained very saleable, because of one reason–its association with sex. Originating in the realm of Hinduism & Tibetan Buddhism, Tantra is an ancient path of […]
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Our first impulse might be to pick up some current event or to talk about how good or bad the food is or mention a few impressive things about ourselves. But if a date is the test of the heart then we must talk about things that help two people understand each other at a […]
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Perhaps, you are already alone and are not willing to acknowledge this. The situation you fear has already happened several times. To put things out would just mean realizing and accepting that which has been you reality for a long time. At least, now you’d actually just be alone with yourself and not in the […]
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In 1945, within months of his liberation from a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, Viktor Frankl (who was earlier a psychologist practicing in Vienna) wrote the book ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’. The book not only explored the horrors and suffering that Frankl endured in the camps but majorly, it wanted to answer the question: what […]
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In the second part of the series about the origination of emotions, we’ll be looking at the cognitive-affective theories about the same and also draw an analysis of what we’ve looked at in Part 1 and Part 2. The following two theories falls under the broad category of cognitive-affective theories which examine how cognitions and […]
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In the second part, we’ll find out how a certain Indian Goddess results in the creation of thunderstorms and lightning, how too many vaginas can sometimes cause trouble and much more! Nimibatapa When Nimibatapa, of the Sherdukpen people, and her husband argue, things pan out very differently from the way they do in case of […]