Humans suffer from aggression. We all have it, it’s an evolutionary leftover meant to protect ourselves and our peers from harm. In modern societies we have managed to tame aggression through laws and cultural morality. We have set up our societies in such ways that outer aggression is channeled and any outburst of aggression is [...]
A notion I have been thinking a lot of lately is karma. Originated from Hinduism and Buddhism it is literaly translated as ‘action’ or ‘deed’ and describes how everything we do, say and think (body, speech and mind) results in similar consequences. Therefore negative action, speech or thought results in similar negative consequences. Obviously our [...]
We can spend our whole lives practicing yoga,meditating, singing mantra’s, improve ourselves in many ways, all of which are really helpful methods. But often the very core of our problem, our pain, is being avoided. It’s very hard to get to that core, to actually become conscious of it. It’s usually created in the very [...]