Philosophy Now Forum

Sapiens cultivates the myth that his, i.e. occidental, civilization is endlessly growing; yet all civilizations do eventually disappear, be it through inner corruption, outer pressure or suicide. Corruption, foremost powered by ambition, envy & greed has become a trademark of occidental civilisa...

How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation

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To Homo ConsciousNess is natural, particularly to those living in harmony with Nature – whereas Sapiens spins ever more psychological, neurological and philosophical theories about ConsciousNess, thus demonstrating his increasing alienation and confusion.

Homo venerated Nature throughout ages as mother and often as goddess as well. Sapiens began to treat her as an accidental & dumb contraption, and proclaimed himself, destined by genetics or genesis, to be her governor, and of course of Homo too – as a matter of fact, of anyone who is not ruthles...

Love is a decision - not an emotion. Lao Tzu

During 35 years traveling around the world, i met inumerable Homos that do not suffer the above mentioned hangups of Sapiens i.e. western civilisation, and are (in my opinion) possibly going to outlive his/its autoanihilation.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now (Lao Tzu)

The present moment is all there is, and it is the only time in which we can truly live. (Koshi Uchyama)

The journey of self-realization is the most important journey we will ever take. (Buddha)

Reflections & Projections (R/P) are basic operations of the mind. There are three principal R/P modes – the alternating, whose manifestations complement each other – the contrary, where they contrast each other, and the dualistic R/P, whose manifestations appear separate. The alternating R/P is ...

Occidental science has become successor of the Christian cult by taking over its genesis with a god called “Big Bang” who creates an autonomous existence in form of matter which he hurls through a linear time/space to disappear in a black hole. A rather short-sighted update, considering that the Chr...

"According to Tibetan Buddhist teachings, the world is an aggregate of particles. The particles are in perpetual motion – they manifest instantaneous and contact the senses as flashes of energy – mind interprets the reactions of the senses. All our perceptions, those to which we give names and ...

“Rule your mind or your mind rules you” (Buddha) Buddha derived his concepts of the mind from introspection (know thyself), an operation modus apparently lost to the Occidental civilisation whose scientists try to confine mind into their cerebrums and to explain its enormous capacities with electric...

I do not criticise science - but what sapiens does with it.

Hindu, Buddhist, Dao & Zen schools, who have been studying the mind for millenia, offer plenty of methods and techniques.

It would be a drag if there were a ubiquitous reality a la Sapiens, as he is not only self-deceptive, but also self-destructive. One could blame the dual/linear R/P mode of Sapiens and his monotheistic upbringings which nourish his belief to be a separate and superior organism – were there not his i...