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Philosophy

  An old Japanese tale recounts how once a warlike samurai challenged a teacher of Zen to explain the concept of heaven and hell. Then the monk replied with scorn: "You're nothing but a measly - I cannot lose my time with your peers!".With insulted egoism,...

The action bias is accentuated when a situation is new or unclear.   The action bias exists even in the most educated circles. If a patient’s illness cannot yet be diagnosed with certainty, and doctors must choose between intervening (i.e. prescribing something) or waiting and seeing, they are...

There was one great master, a Buddhist master, Nagarjuna. A thief came to him. The thief had fallen in love with the master because he had never seen such a beautiful person, such infinite grace. He asked Nagarjuna, "Is there some possibility of my growth also? But...

One foggy evening in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the bourgeois narrator of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1922) travels to an expensive restaurant to have dinner with an aristocratic friend, the Marquis de Saint-Loup. He arrives early, Saint-Loup is...

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