On Anxiety

Anxiety — that feeling of dread, fear, worry and panic — is certainly nothing new. Hippocrates wrote about it in the fourth century BCE. As did Søren Kierkegaard in the 1860s. And Sigmund Freud addressed the disorder in 1926.

Here is Eckhart Tolle, talking about a lot of issues, including the things that create anxiety.

A large portion of our anxiety is unnecessary. Through deep breathing, good habits, this portion of anxiety can be reduced and the improved health will ensure that the rest of anxiety is carried gracefully with patience....

DEEP BREATHING....THE BEST MEDICINE FOR ANXIETY. WORKS INSTANTLY, IF ONLY WE'D REMEMBER TO DO IT IN MOMENTS OF DEEP ANXIETY...

Maya versus Reality (Hinduism)

Introduction: A lot of Sadhus tend to reject the realm of the material, stating that it is an illusion. This is not what Hinduism recommends. Rejecting the world is nothing but NIHILISM, a bitter philosophy that is nothing but a failure.

*MAYA VERSUS REALITY*

We are here on this planet for a finite amount of time...

and consequently this world is called maya/illusion, by Hindus.

This does imply we reject this world because our stay in it is temporary.

It only means that this concept stays in our minds as we go about negotiating & dealing with our lives. Or Maya. 

Why it is called "Maya" :

Because only something ETERNAL, something that will last forever - only such a thing is considered real by this outlook. 

All temporary things

their existence is ambiguous

after they cease to exist, after they dissolve, do they exist
except in memory? 

which is arbitrary, illusory, fleeting

As per this perspective something real is something that

will be forever available



Who are/were you?
before your father and mother conceived you?

...and...where do you long to be...?

Yanni believes passion is eternal...


Uriah Heep found his eternal person...


Deep Purple looks for the eternal in the echoes of the past...

Some advice

“Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments — an inability to accept life as ongoing.”

Rest of the article can be found at: Ongoingness

Good and evil flow as an integrated unit?

Good and evil, fortune and misfortune, do they flow as an integrated unit?

An idea that I have been wondering about for a long time now.

An interesting quote by Alan Watts, a man who has studied many forms of philosophy formally, has an endless number of degrees in the subject:

"The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad — because you never know what will be the consequence of the misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune."


In his book the Tao of Physics, physicist Fritjof Capra explains esoteric philosophies (Chinese and Indian).

One particular chapter in it, "THE UNITY OF OPPOSITES" caught my attention.