Why do you prefer to stay at home? | Carl Jung and the value of solitude

Solitude does not always mean emptiness. Carl Jung believed that moments of silence and being alone allow us to reconnect … More

Love God, Love Your Neighbour, Love Your Enemy – James Talarico’s interview with Joe Rogan

Why Love is Central to Morality

For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love

Schopenhauer on the Semi-Satisfied Life

Schopenahuer’s mother Johanna would be supportive of his decision to leave Hamburg in search of an intellectually fulfilling life – … More

Beyond Stoicism

We all want to live the good life. But how many of us can claim to be truly content? Join … More

Understanding Suffering: Perspectives from Schopenhauer

“Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is … More

“Hell is Other People”. No, “To Hell with Other People”

Sartre’s “Hell is other people” reveals how the Other’s gaze traps our freedom. My retort, “To hell with other people,” rejects that entrapment, asserting an inner autonomy beyond judgment. Where Sartre diagnoses entanglement, I offer release — an existential Advaita that dissolves dependence on others’ definitions of self.

Question the Answer, Question the Question – To My Dear Friend Pramod Reddy

Chum, you seem to have spent Some of your youth In the company of Nietzsche How else can I account … More

Lighten Up, Marx

Marx took the world far more seriously than is warranted. That is why he wrote in the Communist Manifesto, “Violence … More

Hard Problem of Matter & Hard Problem of Consciousness

The “hard problem of matter” asks: what is matter in itself, beyond equations and interactions? Physics describes how particles and fields behave, but not their intrinsic nature. Similarly, the “hard problem of consciousness” asks: why does brain activity produce subjective experience? Both expose a gap between scientific description and lived reality. Across traditions—Vedanta, Buddhism, Western panpsychism, Daoism, and modern physics—the puzzle is the same: are matter and mind two distinct substances, or two faces of the same reality? Exploring these perspectives reveals how ancient wisdom and modern science converge on this profound mystery of existence.