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TAGORE – A Japanese Folktale

  An old Japanese tale recounts how once a warlike samurai challenged a teacher of Zen to explain the concept of heaven and hell....

20 August, 2021

WHY WATCHING AND WAITING IS TORTURE. Action Bias (ROLF DOBELLI)

The action bias is accentuated when a situation is new or unclear.   The action bias exists even in the most educated circles. If a...

19 August, 2021

Walls

Without reflection, without mercy, without shame, they built strong walls and high, and compassed me about.     And now I sit here and consider and despair. My...

18 August, 2021

“You have said all that you wanted to say, can I go now? If you have still something more to say I will be coming back again after a few days; you can tell me that time” [Buddha(OSHO)]

Buddha was passing. A few people gathered and they insulted him very much. He listened to them very attentively, very lovingly. When they...

17 August, 2021

Nothing is so vital to developing and maintaining a love relationship (or killing it) as the decision- making process. (Virginia Satir)

The chances of spouses having things in common are about 100 percent. Likewise the chances are 100 percent that they will find differences...

16 August, 2021

HALF AND HALF, OR HOW TO GET EVEN WITH THE BLACK SWAN (NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB)

Half the time I am a hyperskeptic; the other half I hold certainties and can be intransigent about them, with a very stubborn...

15 August, 2021

Each person is elusive. You can catch hold of the body, but not the soul. (OSHO)

So, this is the first basic fact to understand: that except for yourself, nobody can penetrate your privacy. That is the difference between...

14 August, 2021

Living, loving & learning (LEO BUSCAGLIA)

My happiness is me, not you. Not only because you may be temporary, But also because you want me to be what I am not. I...

13 August, 2021

One comes upon virtue; it cannot be cultivated any more than one can cultivate love, or humility (JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI)

We have created society and that society has conditioned us. Our minds are tortured and heavily conditioned by a morality which is not...

12 August, 2021

An Old Man (C.P. CAVAFY)

At the noisy end of the café, head bent over the table, an old man sits alone, a newspaper in front of him. And in the...

11 August, 2021