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 […]
Category Archives: Applied Philosophy
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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 […]
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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 […]
Applied Philosophy, Chaitanya Keerti
The Apparent Duality and Paradoxical Unity, Harmonious Life of a True Sage
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Apr
Apr
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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Apr
Apr
“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 […]
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Apr
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? […]
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Apr
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 […]
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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.