Being an unconventional person in a traditional society like India causes inconvenience to his or her community and family as well. In this blog I will be discussing the financial risk that comes along with having a maladjusted person in your family. This is just anecdotal evidence. But it explains why people did not want […]
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On Empathy – Some Comments
I have been lacking in empathy pretty much all my life. It is only in the last 5 or 6 years that I have become somewhat empathetic. I am 61 years old now and that means that for about 55 years I was severely handicapped by not having empathy. I used to be very critical […]
Criticizing my Elders
I am, in this blog, going to criticize my elders. Since I am publishing it for the whole world to read I am doing so in public. I need to do so without causing offence. So I thought I would just give some quotes from books I have read that I thought my elders can […]
Still More On Not Judging
I have written about this topic before but I keep returning to it as this teaching is yielding me benefits daily. Even hour after hour and moment after moment. I will talk about the theoretical justification of this teaching later. First let me describe the benefits that I have spoken of. Leaving questions of good […]
A Breakthrough in my Meditation Practice
I have been doing Buddhist meditation for more than 20 years now with some degree of persistence and sincerity at least. So it has taken a very long time to turn the corner and master what is really important. To analyze why it has taken me so long: I was just slow on the uptake. […]
The Importance of Humility
Google gave me the following meaning of the word Humility: the quality of not thinking that you are better than other people But I think humility in the Indian context has another meaning. It means (I think): the denial or abasement of oneself. The above is the meaning of self abnegation. Forget the abasement bit. […]
Why I am happy to be a Recluse
The meaning of the word recluse is: a person who lives alone and who maintains very little contact with other people or society OR a religious person who lives a life away from other people and society Both meanings apply to me to some extent. I have little contact with people and I take spirituality […]
What I have gained from books I did not understand
I used to do a lot of mindless reading when I was young. Mindless reading meaning: Much of this was pure escapism. I did not want to face up to the demons within me. I had psychological issues and lacked friends and company and so kept compulsively busy reading and walking. Now you may think […]
How Philosophy saved me 34K
I’ll start by telling the story of how I lost about Rs 2.5K just yesterday. I was surfing on Google search and the topic of my search was books and reading. Google AI recommended a mobile app Bookly. It said that this app would help organise my reading. Organize my reading means this: I want […]
A Message to Daniil Medvedev
Those of you who do not follow tennis – Daniil Medvedev is a Russian tennis player. He is currently ranked 13th in the world and has won the US Open. He is a charismatic character and somewhat controversial and modern tennis needs charismatic sportspersons. Otherwise today we have Sinner and Alcaraz dominating men’s tennis to […]