Philosophy – Page 8

The Bible of Mithra

5 Dec 2016

An introduction to ancient Persia’s metaphysics and spirituality by Andre Atabaki

“The Great Way is not difficult for those not attached to preferences. If you wish to know the truth, then hold to no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. When the fundamental nature of things is not recognized, the mind’s … More The Great Way

The Face of Truth

15 Nov 2016

“The face of Truth is concealed by a golden vessel. Do thou, O Sun, open it so as to be seen by me who am by nature truthful. O thou who art the nourisher, the solitary traveler, the controller, the acquirer, the son of Prajapati, do remove thy rays, do gather up thy dazzle. I … More The Face of Truth

Hell is the Other

18 Sep 2016

The man of today is drowning in the ocean of subjectivity, in phenomena, falling for his own shadow, falling a second fall. By continuous feeding of our little desires we have made a mistress out of them; mental and physical needs become more subtle, and we have developed a consciousness for them; we have become … More Hell is the Other

Summary of Vedantic Metaphysics

18 Aug 2016

The student: What is the cause of this world? The master: Ignorance. The student: What is ignorance? The master: It is confusing the seer with the seen. The student: What is the seen? The master: Everything. The student: What is the seer? The master: You are the seer. The student: Who is confused? The master: … More Summary of Vedantic Metaphysics

Indifference, Station of Wisdom

17 Aug 2016

“One may be indifferent to the enjoyments of this world only in expectation of better enjoyments in the next. This kind of indifference is tainted with desires which bar the door to Knowledge. But the indifference that results from a due deliberation on the evanescent nature of this world as well as the world to … More Indifference, Station of Wisdom

The Pride of Goodness

10 Aug 2016

“It is not so easy to be good. What are you but mere machines until you are free! Should you be proud because you are good? Certainly not. You are good because you cannot help it. Another is bad because he cannot help it. If you were in his position, who knows what you would … More The Pride of Goodness

The Overman

31 Jul 2016

Much has been said of the coming of the Overman. The Overman doesn’t evolve; the Overman descends. It was not Nietzsche that spoke of the coming of the Overman; it was the Overman that spoke through Nietzsche of his own coming. In Overman the real has become the ideal and the ideal the real since … More The Overman

Know Thyself

15 May 2016

“Just as a mirror takes on the hues of images, so also the abstract Intelligence assumes the different shapes of objects, by virtue of its holding them within itself. Abstract Intelligence can thus be made manifest by eliminating from it all that can be known. It cannot be known as such and such, for it … More Know Thyself

The Paradox of Atheism

14 Feb 2016

The battle of the atheists is not really with religion but with their own understanding, or more precisely misunderstanding, of what religion is, for what they know of religion is the most literal, and hence the most superficial understanding that they themselves have read into it. For instance, a physicist cannot possibly take seriously a … More The Paradox of Atheism