“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. If we are sad about leaving our school, we must fully immerse ourselves in that sadness. If we are happy about our kid graduating, we must let […]
Category Archives: Applied Philosophy
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher,writer and political activist, and one of the central figures in 20th Century French philosophy. He is best known as the main figurehead of the Existentialist movement. In his writing, ‘The Work of Art’, Sartre first establishes clearly that he does not wish to deal with the problem of the […]
Miracle healing by the Buddha of Compassion, Mother Kuan Yin I started my journey with Master Sha’s teachings by becoming a Tao Healing Hands Practitioner, a healing modality where we get a spiritual transmission in our hands, by which we become a channel of Tao, the Source, to serve people for all areas of their […]
All the enlightened mystics of the past and the present-day teach us a certain art of living–and that is the art of being fully alive while we are alive; not live life half-heartedly or in a lukewarm manner. It does not matter whether you are living with people or in your aloneness. This should also […]
“The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises boredom never settles in you.” Osho The Coronavirus has brought the greatest surprise to the whole world–not just a surprise, […]
Before we dive into what Stoics had to say about stress, let us first understand a little about the school. Stoicism was a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium, in Athens, in the early 3rd century BC. The Hellenistic school supported a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic […]
The most essential part of Vipassana meditation is the breath and the process of watching the breath. Many of us live our lives these days without proper breathing, which means we do not have much vitality or prana energy or vibrancy. And meditation does require tremendous energy and no dullness and sleepiness. A daily dose […]
Reason appeals to a mind that’s always divided – right or wrong, good or bad, valid or invalid. Poetry finds its nourishment in a mind that believes in unity – both/and, good/good, yes/yes. Zen makes its home in a mind that has retained its rational thought and also has the beauty of a poetic spiritual […]
In a better arranged society, we would not only celebrate the lawyers and the doctors but also those who have the ability to soothe, to reassure their fellow beings in times of crisis or fear that their feelings are valid and that there is light at the end of the tunnel, provided one shows the […]
March 21st is the day ( and night also ) when the enlightenment happened to Osho in the year 1953. This is the day every year when there’s a perfect existential harmony: it’s called the equinox, which is Latin for the equal night, meaning that day and night are (roughly) equal at this time. Bart Everson, […]