A Blog About Mindfulness, Meditation & Well-Being
It was like the internet had just vomited all over my screen. I'd just had a popular Youtuber recommended to me. Apparently he had spoken well in the past on topics such as well-being and inspiration. Sure, he came on a little strong at times, I was told, but generally he gave a motivating and [...]
There's a certain thought experiment that has been disturbing me for a while now. When I first heard it, years ago, I thought it was interesting but mostly theoretical and irrelevant. Now I think it throws a floodlight onto what might well become a defining crisis of the twenty-first century. In 1974, philosopher Robert Nozick [...]
Imagine: You have been given a chance to recreate society completely from scratch. Yes, you personally have to devise a set of principles by which we will all live. But there's a catch: You don't get to know who you will be in this society. You don't know if you will be rich or poor, [...]
You and your family board a plane. As the plane takes off, something strange starts to happen. The passengers jump out of their seats and start removing or damaging ever-increasing portions of the plane itself: engine, wings, fuel pumps, navigation, electrical, windows, steering, etc. Understandably, you start to panic. You rush over to the passengers [...]
What do you think of a monk going off to meditate in a cave for years at a time? How about decades? Such a person might well be the world champion of meditation. Maybe they are a bona fide Enlightened One. Or maybe they're a certifiable headcase from the lack of human social interaction. But [...]
Coming Back to Where You Are 