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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
The conclusions of many mystics since time began is that a vast awareness pervades all of space and time, it inhabits the space between matter, between atoms and their constituent Continue Reading
Mind Vs Matter There are two sides to reality, the objective side of atoms, molecules, rocks, trees, people, places and events vs the subjective experience of the mind. Matter and Continue Reading
(Continuing from The Natural Aesthetic – Nature crafts its own art) Landscape aesthetics This brilliant painting by Ivan Shishkin (25 January 1832 – 20 March 1898), called ‘morning Continue Reading
I’ve thought long and hard on this for a very long time, years, in fact, ploughing my way through the moral maze of intent, unintended consequence and much, much more Continue Reading
The word oppression is a ‘hot potato,’ that’s frequently batted back and forth between the political left and right like a worn-out tennis ball, leading to some highly charged and Continue Reading
Fritz Haber (born 1868), was a Polish Jew, who received a Nobel prize in Chemistry for his invention of the Haber-Bosch process (a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia Continue Reading