https://georgesupreeth.com/web/tags/philosophy/Recent content in Philosophy on George SupreethHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSun, 29 Aug 2021 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_on_balance/Sun, 29 Aug 2021 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_on_balance/Balance. A simple word but so hard to apply. Hard – not in the way that back-breaking labour is hard. Hard like trying to grab a fish in a pond hard or picking up a slimy noodle from a slippery floor hard. If achieving balance were merely a matter of allocating time and applying strength, we would be well rounded, balanced, people. I would at least. Were it so easy! Achieving balance is slippery, like trying hard not to think about something.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_where_can_dust_collect/Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_where_can_dust_collect/The ant was irritated by that dreamy look in the grasshopper’s eyes. He was looking up into the clouds again, the sunlight bathing his face. “Where were we?” asked the grasshopper. “You were telling me about Karmic Debts…” the ant said. A part of him itched to get back to work with the others, and yet, here he was, sitting in a meadow, with a vagrant fiddler, listening to his philosophy of life.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_a_nondual_description_of_user_experience_design/Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_a_nondual_description_of_user_experience_design/What we consider to be our self, seems to be the result of how the brain processes information about itself in the world. We are not consciously aware of a large part of such processes. Energy is a scarce and expensive resource. The brain expends energy on selective attention. It seems to regulate attention through the action of suppression or selective signal enhancement of stimuli. This act of energy conservation may take place as a result of the brain trying to minimise surprise, i.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_invested_identities/Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_invested_identities/“As long as subject is centred in a phenomenal object, and thinks and speaks therefrom, subject is identified with that object and is bound. As long as such condition obtains, the identified subject can never be free—for freedom is liberation from that identification. Abandonment of a phenomenal centre constitutes the only ‘practice’, and such abandonment is not an act volitionally performed by the identified subject, but a non-action (wu wei) leaving the noumenal centre in control of phenomenal activity, and free from fictitious interference by an imaginary ‘self.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_you_are_not_the_box/Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_you_are_not_the_box/ From the daily comic challenge on the Penciljam WhatsApp group. The keywords for this were – parrot and dancer. I decided to go for something a little philosophical. Related Posts She adores Auto drivers The death of a dragon Guest is God Blessing