The Art of Washing Dishes: Zen Practices
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The Great Importance of People Who Don’t Belong
Every now and then I take a break from writing and social media to reflect on whether I'm not moving away from the things I want to express through my work - and to get an outside perspective on society or life in general. It's easy...
Balance in Life: The Result of Dealing with Both Worlds
As an extreme introvert, I have never been too deeply involved or attached to the outside world. I remember being a teenager and thinking, "Damn, I should go outside for a while so I won't be such a weirdo." So I put on a mask from...
Meditation Is Not a Tool for Self-Improvement
Another day, another tweet about the magical power of meditation for self-improvement, written like this: I meditated for 7000 hours The majority of my results came in the last 500 hours. Here are the best tools I've found to sky-rocket your progress - prevent you from wasting time:...
Plans for the Future Are Useless If You Can't Live in the Present
Siddhārtha Gautama, known as Buddha, said long ago: “Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” Therefore it seems that people have always had a problem with being present, but the amount of stimuli and social pressure these days have escalated this problem over the moon. Our modern...
The Show Must Go On - How We Voluntarily Deceive Ourselves
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth,” wrote Plato, referring to the words of Socrates during his trial and final fate — death. And although we all know Socrates as the father of philosophy or even wisdom, quoting his famous words: “All I know is that I...