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.
Category Archives: Applied Philosophy
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 […]
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.
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.
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:
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.
“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 […]
That witness is your innermost being. That witness is the deepest manifestation of your life. Right now you are standing on your periphery. You can make a mistake, but that witness cannot make a mistake.
Let us first understand what is Wave. and then we can feel how consciousness of waves can help us enter into a deep meditation. You see wave in the ocean. They appear; they are in a sense, and still in a deeper sense they are not.
So why are we spending our life in a vain chase for some illusive goal that will make us happy? Why are we so serious about all the goals we have set for our life? We think we will be happy if we achieve our goals.