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A Heart Gathering the Scattered Thoughts of a Brain
by Modaser Shah The Sage of Hannibal, Mark Twain, said: “My life has been full of misfortunes, most of which never happened.” Here Mark Twain shows us how hard it is to surrender; the mind is very creative in inventing … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Teaching, Modaser Shah, Original Essays, Original Photography
Tagged Nasreddin, philosophy, religion, spirituality, Sufism
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Pain, Sin, and Fear
by Navid Zaidi We often wonder about certain propositions concerning the nature of humans and the world. For example, one psychological implication may be the central fact of pain as a dominating element in our lives. Human beings, regarded as … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Teaching, Navid Zaidi, Original Essays
Tagged fear and sin, pain management, philosophy, religion, spirituality
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Bringing About Change: The Dalai Lama Approach
by Navid Zaidi In his book The Art of Happiness, His Holiness the Dalai Lama shows us how to defeat day to day anxiety, insecurity, anger and discouragement, difficulties common to all human beings. According to the Dalai Lama it … Continue reading
Posted in Navid Zaidi, Original Essays
Tagged Art of Happiness, Dalai Lama, philosophy, religion, spirituality
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Of Monks and Mad Dogs
by Modaser Shah If memory serves, June 21 this year, The New York Times reported that a “radical” Buddhist monk in Burma declared, apropos the Muslim minority in that country, that although Buddhism enjoined love and compassion,”one can’t sleep next … Continue reading
Posted in Modaser Shah, Original Essays
Tagged philosophy, religion, spirituality, Stephen Grosz, Žižek
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A Sufi Thought for the Week (Malihabadi)
A perceptive person could have found proof of the Truth in a single dawn, without any additional confirmations…A verse of Josh Malihabadi (Urdu poet of the 20th century) in loose translation. Thought contributed by Aziz Anjum; photo by Ali Hammad
A Bit of Truth
by Modaser Shah In his interesting, even entertaining, albeit difficult-to-read book titled LESS THAN NOTHING, Slavoj Žižek ascribes the following quote to Winston Churchill: “Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry … Continue reading
Finding Light in the Dark
by Modaser Shah “We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched. Of course, there are then no questions left, and this itself is the answer,” said Wittgenstein, and what … Continue reading
A Sufi Snap (The Golden Hour) and a Sufi Thought for the Week
“We are indeed truly at sea with our only comfort being the basic fact that at least we are at sea together.” —Todd Essig, Ph.D., in a review of a book by Ken Eisold in Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 40, p.685, 2012. … Continue reading
No Pain, No Gain?
by Modaser Shah Ghalib, the well-known Urdu poet, in one of his ghazals says: In the dream my thoughts were involved with you; when I woke up, I found neither loss nor gain. “The belief that a deeper connection is … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Poetry, Classic Teaching, Modaser Shah, Original Essays
Tagged Ghalib, Lao Tzu, Laozi, nonaction, nonviolence, philosophy, Religion and Spirituality, Ryokan, satyagraha, Taoism
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Does Eternal Life Belong to Those Who Live in the Present?
by Modaser Shah “Eternal life belongs to those who live in the present,” Wittgenstein, in Tractatus, quoted in Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Žižek. Some random associations: This sounds more like a koan than a philosopher’s proposition, hence the meaning … Continue reading
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