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"The way upward and the way downward is one and the same." —Heraclitus(Epigraphs to T.S. Eliot's poem "Burnt Norton") Two wheels, one escape: why the radical middle way is our best betFortune’s wheel: a medieval reality checkSamsara’s wheel: the bigger pictureThe shared insight: don’t bet…
TL;DR: The West inherited Stoicism’s moral blueprint—virtue through reason—then wrapped it in Christianity’s sin-and-forgiveness cycle. Secularizing it left us with the blueprint but no safety valve, fueling perfectionism and guilt. The East’s Buddhist–Taoist nondualism skips the blueprint entirely, trusting the present as nature itself. Epicureanism…
Why the radical middle way means zero burnouts There’s a kind of peace that chaos can’t reach. Not the peace of a retirement plan or a silent retreat with artisanal tea. Not the kind that comes from counting breaths in a candlelit room. I mean…
The Buddha’s Four Noble Truths are a timeless guide for finding inner peace in our unruly modern world. But what makes these ancient teachings so useful that they have survived empires and technological revolutions? As someone who stumbled upon nondual realization through my own rational…
Have you ever wondered about The Matrix? Not the sci-fi classic itself, but the deeper mystery it hints at—the "thing" behind it all? Could our reality be a simulation? What truly drives our conscious experience? My article 7 Minutes to See The Matrix takes on…
Journey through the brilliant mind of Blaise Pascal, a 17th-century polymath who dared to embrace both scientific rigor and life's deepest mysteries. In an age where secular dualists claim all can be explained through science, discover how this mathematical genius who invented the calculator at…