Category: philosophical counseling
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Really Pinning Down The Nature Of Ego
In Fearless Simplicity: The Dzogchen Way of Living Freely in a Complex World, Tsoknyi Rinpoche offers us a tantalizing hint about the nature of the ego: When you look for this “me,” for this “I” or ego, you find that it is mind. It is the knowing quality that you call “me.” In fact, there…
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Happiness Is A Life Having Come Together Into A Whole
Dear friend, As for the Signal recording, sorry about that. Obviously, I’m not sure what happened. The basic line of thought was this one: 1.) Let’s suppose, as a child, that you begin thinking about happiness. Naturally, it occurs to you that happiness is pleasure. (This is essentially what Epicureans, or followers of Epicurus, said…
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Happiness Means What Is Best For Me So Far
Nicholas White’s conclusion in his fine book, A Brief History of Happiness, is too quick. His overview of this history sounds like this: That idea of the concept of happiness looks as follows. A person has various aims, desires, aspirations, things that he regards as worthwhile, things that he enjoys, and so on. Not knowing…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 