Suffering can be difficult. Being taken on a ride of existential despair may feel like vacationing in a meat grinder. (That’s how I felt anyway.) But the pursuit of ending suffering can become its own biggest trap. The initial discontent and...
Anxiety is modern society’s bread and butter. Social conditioning is the only reason anxiety is rampant in the first place. We’re conditioned to be anxious. If we had a bunch of psychiatrists rummaging around everyone’s psyches, most people could...
Forget for a moment who you think you are. Forget the life story, crafted by a select few events, you’ve been identifying with. What lies ahead? What is your potential? I have no clue. But more importantly, neither do you. When we think...
There is a German word that wonderfully expresses the non-specific discontent that gets us on the right track towards awakening or even a more, dare I say, authentic life where conditioning-riddled decisions, opinions, and actions are no longer the norm — Weltschmerz...
Let’s briefly forget this whole awakening business and focus on something partially related. You have to dream well. In other words, you should enjoy the life you’re living. Many people find themselves living nightmares and use that as their fuel for...
Let’s assume you have all the survival needs covered. You have shelter, food, …well, that’s basically it. Now, what do you want? Everything you want from here on out is not because you need it. Through an intricate mechanism of countless...