Archive for the ‘ Selfhood ’ Category
Over the years, I’ve known many people who were once united in loving couples, but have since broken up and retained a great deal of suffering, aversion, frustration, and anger at the person they once loved. I’ve been in this situation quite a few times myself. Experience has taught me again and again that the [ READ MORE ]
Unlike Shankara, Vallabhacharya’s system of suddhadvaita (pure nondualism) does not admit of a notion of Maya distinct from Brahman. For this reason, it affirms a true formulation of the Upanashadic ‘one without a second.’ For Vallabha, there is no conflict whatsoever between the diverse appearances of nature and their ultimate nonduality as modes of the [ READ MORE ]
Someone asked me why I smile all the time. The reason is that after 15 years of deep exploration of the world’s key religious and philosophical traditions, I was finally able to find the inner peace and joy that I sought for so long. And the marvelous thing about this joy and peace is that [ READ MORE ]
Peter Singer points out in his marvelous book How Are We to Live? that in our society–in which materialist, consumeristic, individualistic self-interest is paramount–self-interest and an ethical life are seen as being in conflict. However, I would argue that this apparent conflict comes from the contradictory character of our notion of self-interest as well [ READ MORE ]
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