by philipp68
Here a short story how the mind likes to take the world apart, so that it can store all the concepts it learns for later reference. It want’s to keep us save, by building up a complete, internal Lego set representing the world. Thus creating the illusion of control, if we could just understand how everything works. Namaste, Philipp
Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Illusion, Mind
by philipp68
Everything we experience triggers an emotional reaction. When something feels bad our mind tends to fabricate a complicated story, telling us what object or person to blame for the bad feeling. Emotions are important guides we should carefully listen to. What we tend to forget is that the story our mind fabricates is dependent on what we believe, our current emotional state and cultural background. In many situations it is our mind that is creating most of the drama, when […]
Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Action, Bhagavad Gita, Illusion, Mind
by philipp68
Many years ago my father gave me the book “The Star Diaries” by Stanislaw Lem. The book is a collection of the incredible voyages of space traveller Ijon Tichy. It was one of my first science fiction novels. I loved it. The eleventh voyage is a parable of living in a country, where everybody upholds the official ideology no one actually believes in. Having grown up in the “Peoples Republic of Poland” Lem knew, what he was talking about. As […]
Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Action, Bhagavad Gita, Illusion, Modern Workplace
by philipp68
Where does this fascination for processes come from? I think processes can be beneficial, but at the same time inhibit our ability to deal with the often-chaotic “reality”. By wrapping “reality” in a process we hope to stay in control, reduce the complexity of the world. We hope that the process will serve as a guide and tell us how to interact in a group. Instead of trying to stay calm, interacting freely with the people around us to solve […]
Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Compassion, Illusion, Modern Workplace, Process
by philipp68
In 1967 G. R. Stephenson conducted an experiment with a group of rhesus monkeys. The experiment shows how we acquire behavior. I think studying the way the experiment was conduced shows something else: It shows that monkeys would never have acted the way they did, if they had been left alone to live their life in peace. I believe the natural state of monkeys and humans is to be good. It’s the experiments, which drive us crazy. The experiment went […]
Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Buddhism, Compassion, Heart, Illusion
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