Philosophy and Wisdom

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ The quality of our mind state in nowness is not dependent on what anyone else thinks, says or does. It does not depend on external events. The quality of the mind state will be defined by the conditioned perceived unhelpful reaction of the confused self referential mind or the compassionate response of its consciously aware counterpart. ▫️

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ Conscious decision will specify our quality of mind.

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. Paul Ricoeur

⚪️ Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. (Bertrand Russell)

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. (Will Durant)

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ Conscious decision will specify our quality of mind.

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. (Bertolt Brecht)

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ The nature of any institution is to ensure the institution maintains control. Institutions are born from, developed within and controlled by those who are attached to group thoughts and behaviours. Even those institutions that were created to serve the community, become self serving hotbeds of power and control. Rationality, based in equanimity and kindness, flies out the window when the institutional mindset finds itself challenged. Any challenge is perceived to be a threat to the  mentality of the confused and conditioned self referential mind that is seeking to protect its dominance at all costs. There are no concessions to be made. Everything is black and white. There are no grey areas. Institutionalism is an example of an extreme and therefore unhelpful view. Human existence and experience is not black and white. For the most part it is an inter-related greyness. Finding the middle way solution, that is based in actuality and not dominated by the emotions of subjective reality is the way to resolve issues without worrying about it.

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. (Buddha) شما به خاطر خشمتان تنبیه نمی شوید، شما بوسیله ی خشمتان تنبیه می شوید. (بودا)

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. (Martin Heidegger)

⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ ⚪️ The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. (Stephen Hawking)