theme: On designing one's life for evolution
Man can be seen to be a product of two heritages – his spiritual heritage born of consciousness and his material heritage born of biological roots.
Achieving a positive and fruitful interaction and synthesis between two seems seems to be in the renunciation of the ‘narrow I’ and the gradual adoption of a larger ‘collective I’…
This piece maps out the spaces in which people connect to each other – activity, emotional, intellectual and spiritual.
It further goes on to propose that perhaps the deepest and most sustainable relationships are those that span across spaces of connect.
There are 3 kinds of reflection – outward reflection, seeing oneself in a social mirror and self reflection.
Self reflection is when one is able to reflect and reconstruct one’s identity and sense of self. Very few people do this…
Where does ‘reason’ (as opposed to faith) sit? In the realm of matter? In the realm of society? On in some other space.
The answer to this question comes when we recognize that the fundamental axiom on which religion itself is based is neither knowledge nor experience at either the physical plane or the social plane. Religion is based on realization at the plane of the human being…
“What I can reason out” is more true than what I have faith in – Mapping the reasoning mind.
Cognitive Intelligence, when applied to a problem, re-frames the situation such that the problem ceases to exist…
The challenge of life is to observe and do together…
The Practice of understanding “what is essential” is the core of meditation-in-action…
Ownness is to see the other person as myself. Not as complementary, not as my friend, but as me. That person’s success is my success, that person’s failure is my failure…
How is order generated – By a consciousness, awareness, attention on that which is most valuable…
The search for truth is the struggle to unpack the next framework from the existing “tempfacts” (temporary facts) at our command…
Living in the moment is manifestation of the whole. It is real. It is here itself, here itself…
Laughter is the human response to change in context and therefore the rapid transformation of significance in existence…