Tag: philosophy

• December 1, 2025

  How Does My Heart Stay Open?

  What does it take for my heart to open? And what does it take for my heart to stay open? I must give up being right. I have to stop trying to be right. And I must drop my stance by which I maintain my rightness. Rightness (to be clear: not righteousness and not truthfulness)…
• November 25, 2025

  Metaphysics Is At One With Soteriology

  Indologist Paul Deussen’s summary of the essence of metaphysics is perfect: “All that is changeable ultimately leads back to the unchangeable, to discover and learn to know which is the whole problem of metaphysics; wherefore in the domain of metaphysics there can be no becoming” (The System of the Vedanta, p. 434). First, the changeable…
• November 20, 2025

  NEW RELEASE! Chop Wood, Carry Water: The Yoga Of Work

  Reflections On Work 2.0 I’m delighted to announce—more than 8 years after I began thinking about “total work” (a brief overview can be read on Aeon)—that I’ve just self-published a book entitled Chop Wood, Carry Water: The Yoga Of Work. It’s a practical way of reflecting on the role of work in one’s everyday life.…
• November 17, 2025

  Life Is A Burden Vs. Dream Vs. Gift

  There are three basic views of life. The first is, if you scratch the surface, what most people think and feel. And it turns out to be incorrect. The second is a thorn to remove the erroneous first view. To view life as a dream “unhooks” the stakes implied by the alleged burden character of existence. One…
• October 16, 2025

  A Positive Thought Is Closer To Truth Than A Negative Thought

  Listen very carefully to your thoughts and emotions. A negative thought or negative emotion, provided that you believe it to be true, is an energy sieve. From the point of view of energy, you should be able to confirm that such a thought or emotion is, in some metaphysical sense, false. Why so? A positive…