Category Archives: Applied Philosophy

Let’s see what the ancient Greek Philosopher had to say about life!

Now coming to the heterodox category, we have the materialists or Carvakas, Jainas and Buddhists. Unlike the orthodox schools, the members of these philosophical systems do not believe in the authority of the Vedas.

Everybody is a piece of rock. Unless you attain to your uttermost glory, you are bound to be a piece of rock. But nothing is wrong in being a piece of rock. Because the piece of rock is nothing but a God fast asleep, snoring. A piece of rock is god asleep. Nothing is wrong […]

This shows that he never understood even a single dew drop of the Zen experience he became the propagator of Zen philosophy in the west, but not knowing what he was doing, not experiencing anything of what he was talking about.

So, are Sufis lovers? Yes, but not at a physical level although their poetry, songs and music can be understood as the love between a man and a woman at the physical level. But the real understanding is at a deeper and spiritual level of the ultimate love between the seeker and the divine.

Death is a process of revival,. Just as each individual has to die to be born again. Each society , each civilisation has to pass through life to death from death to life again. Indian culture is the only culture which has not died for thousand of years. There have been many culture in the […]

Buddha has been compared to a doctor, on the basis of these truths. In the first two, he diagnoses the problem. In the third one, he hints that there is a cure. And the fourth truth is the prescription using which one finds his or her release from suffering.

The true religion can only be one, just like science. You don’t have a Mohammedans physics, a hindu physics, a christian physics;  that would be nonsense. But that’s what the religions have done – they have made the whole earth a madhouse. If science is one, then why should the science of the inner not […]

Similarly, in this dog eat dog world where everyone is rushing to achieve and acquire, one needs to learn how to slow down. Look at our corporate lives, for instance, where we often forget the virtue of being patient. We are in such a hurry to get things done in a snap.

Our culture teaches us that love just happens. As a result, most of us sit around waiting for someone to sweep us off our feet. But love doesn’t work that way. To get love and keep love you have to go out and be active, learn a variety of specific skills.