Why do two people live together? This question came up
today when my friend had some issues with his spouse.
The framework Martin Buber created in his famous book
I and Thou in the 1920s is one way to treat the subject. Most
of the time we are living in an I—It relationship with our
world. The world around [...]

Do we know what it is to live? We say we’re living. So we
should be masters of life. What does it mean to be alive?
It looks like a lot of routines and useless everyday tasks. We
call it the ordinary life. But by being alive we mean none of
those moments of gray days and sleepy [...]

Actors monitor their performances by watching the dailies.
The best dailies are watched by no one We just live them.
We would learn so much by being able to watch our own
dailies each evening. Weekly review, not even yearly or
decadewide appraisal, would be sufficient. Most of the time
we are so busy, so occupied with something to do.
The [...]

Who thinks if there is no thought.
Who is aware when we’re dreaming.
Today’s thought.

Tags: zen thoughts

It is easy to act outright. It takes more nerve and courage to question first and evaluate the motives of one’s actions. And it’s almost extreme to make up one’s main after all those steps and being able to act rationally against one’s first hunch…
Yesterday I had a good conversation about ownership. These days I’m [...]

We’re free to do whatever we desire. We have a free will—or
do we?
How free is our will? Are we able to decide what are we
going to do tomorrow? We can plan things but we cannot
always guarantee that things are going to turn out the way we
have planned. Other things can happen. So where is [...]

Flow of time is an illusion. Time is motion. It has a dura-
tion—a measurement of motion from one point to another.
Quantum mechanics do not behave this way and, therefore,
Einstein was more than a bit upset: “God does not play dice
with the universe.”
The paradox is that we are always in motion—if not phys-
ically at least [...]

Like it’s said we are our worst enemy. To be more specific - it’s the truth. The truth about ourselves. We cannot stand it. This applies to people, states, governments, organisations and ideologies.
Through out the history people have been killed for their point of views. No matter whether it has been Socrates, inquisitions in the [...]

How can we search for something we know nothing about?
How do we acknowledge or recognize the unknown?
We only know what we know. We only see what we know.
We only hear what we know. But who knows, hears, and sees?
We categorize, conceptualize, and separate—this is our
existence. Our existence is based on separation; we are [...]

Why do we fear everything that is unfamiliar to us (or, to put
it differently, why are we uncomfortable with something
new?)? Actually, how is it possible to fear something that is
not known to us (i.e., understandable, defined, strange)?
We do not. We are only afraid of the things we know and
have—we have nothing against the unknown. [...]