Category Archives: Applied Philosophy

Read Part I here. Till now we have quoted actual mistakes made in the past. But possible mistakes will do just as well. An imaginary example can be one where I make a judgment about an imaginary action to be good. So much so that this judgement is universalizable and can be applied on relevantly […]

We often come across people who champion themselves as those who don’t need much time in helping someone trust them. Whereas in our case, the conversation does not flow beyond a small talk.  It is the mark of a great character when one is known as a person who is open-minded, trustworthy and someone who […]

“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 […]

Step on someone’s toe or accidentally hit them with your arm, and there it comes out easily whooshing out of our mouths, “I am sorry!” It’s as if our tongues have been stitched with tonnes of apologies. But when it comes to emotionally turbulent times, why is it so hard to say the same words? […]

Let’s hear it from our counsellors – the master of this skill! Empathic confrontation is one of the many influencing skills that are used by counsellors when a sense of stuckness is encountered by the client. Stuckness, a term that has its origins in Fritz’s Gestalt theory, refers to being in a state of lack […]

 It’s the poetic spiritual sensibility of Zen that we shall be looking at in this article, a sensibility that is resonated in Haiku, a traditional form of Japanese poetry, built on three sentences only.

Quite often, even though our calendars are filled with crosses and short phrases, our hearts feel empty. We may know better about where we will be in the next five years than we know about in the next five seconds. We seem to be suffering from an excess of orderliness, caution and structural rigidity and […]

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain But how does a woman, living in this youth-obsessed world, avoid or escape the judgement sent her way each time she speaks to someone, opens a magazine, walks into a store or just goes online? How does […]

Not being able to get enough sleep is extremely frightening. We panic over why we cannot sleep, we panic over how we will meet the demands of the next day and then we panic over how little time is left for us to catch some sleep. Our generation has probably only one solution for insomnia […]

The true self has been the main topic of investigation in the Upanishads. We may select three Upanishads – the Chhandogya, the Mundukya and the Katha for our present purpose.