Category Archives: Applied Philosophy

One of the hardest things in life is to relieve someone of their services or to put in millennial language, to fire them. We experience this difficulty because we want to be seen as good by others and telling someone that they are fired will not get us such a response. So how do we find a way out of this dilemma?

Instead of always indulging in your desires, learn to set limits on them “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”– John Stuart Mill Appreciate the little things in life for a more fulfilling experience “The secret of happiness, you see is not found in […]

One day, while cleaning the household, the female head of the family decided to have this flute thrown away. “Why should we bother keeping it anyway? Who wants to play it even?”, she said to herself. And within seconds, the instrument found itself lying on the road outside.

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.