There is a difference between thinking and seeing – and the difference is significant. The west puts great emphasis on thinking. That is why they have named their science of thinking Philosophy. Philosophy means conceptual thinking. We have named the same science darshan.
Category Archives: Applied Philosophy
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We usually believe that we are in the ‘right’ state to receive our friends when we’ve tidied up our sofas, hidden the packs of chips and chocolates, dusted the magazines and the books, fluffed up our cushions, hidden our wrecked diaries under the mattress, put together a three-course meal (a meal I’d never feed myself […]
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I had spent the summer months of 2015 in Leh,inside an Officer’s Flat at the ITBP camp. During my stay there, each night I’d step outside into the numbing cold and find myself lying on the coarse rubble spread all over the earth; my gaze fixed at the star lit sky. As a child, I’d […]
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For a man who has been laughing all his life, death also becomes a matter of laughter. But we cry all our lives. We have been educated in crying. We have been initiated into crying.
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Existential Psychotherapy. Existential Psychotherapy is a dynamic approach which attends to certain ultimate universal concerns that are rooted in an individual’s very existence, explains Irvin D. Yalom. His book, Existential Psychotherapy, addresses four of these concerns, each defined by a spectrum with two ends between which a human is sure to oscillate and feel conflicted […]
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Some one who feels that he is an integral part of this world, and that all its sins and good deeds are attributable to him, is moving towards true religiousness. He has no condemnation for anyone because to condemn the other is to condemn himself.
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Thousand and one are the temptation around you because many people are there peddling their wares. It is a super market, the world, and everybody is interested in selling his wares to you; everybody is a salesman.
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For example if a person lives for fifty years, billions of memories will be formed in his mind. If he were to remember them all he would go mad. So he remembers what ever is meaningful:
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With the mind, division will remain. Only with witnessing self division disappears. With the witnessing self you cannot say who is the known and who is the knower, it is both. But this has to be based on experience, otherwise it becomes a philosophical discussion.
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“You disgust me!” “You’ll never get accepted into that college!” “Get a life!” Can you imagine yourself talking to a person close to you in this manner? Of course not! It’s natural for us to speak with kindness to someone we care about. Often when they end up on our couch, with their head resting […]