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An experience of nothing is a very sought-after meditative discipline in the Buddhist community, usually it takes a long time, years in fact for a Buddhist practitioner to attain the Continue Reading
“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting Continue Reading
Nihilists negate any sense of personal meaning as illusory, this might sound pessimistic but it doesn’t have to be. The mind that makes a judgement of pessimism is also capable Continue Reading
Large featured image, just so you get the message! While reading through German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer’s Counsels and Maxims, I came across this sentence: “The safest way of not Continue Reading
I’ve finally sussed out how to use Instagram and as is my want have joined several philosophical communities on the blasted thing one of which posted a quote by Nietzsche Continue Reading
The notion there’s no afterlife after death, only an oblivious nothingness absent of consciousness, was an idea already familiar in the ancient world. The Greek philosophers entertained this view Continue Reading
The stoics were in the habit of reminding their friends through their letters, the students in lecture halls and especially themselves on the certainty of death. Seneca, like all Continue Reading
This part is a build up towards the main point: the stoic response to death. So for now there will only be minimal mention of stoicism here. Memento Continue Reading
Philosophy mainly deals with the objective world, mysticism, however, is a subjective experience of man’s relationship with God that seeks to diminish the sense of isolation and separation from God Continue Reading
One of the things that strike you when you read Nietzsche is that he considered a good life to be one that is dedicated to personal gain. ‘Personal Gain,’ is Continue Reading