An Introduction
What You See
What you see is because of what you do not see.
What You Know
What you know is because of what you do not know.
Inner Growth
Inner growth is essentially the process of realizing and solving our own contradictions, such as why we often create our own suffering despite not wanting it.
Inner Growth 2
Inner growth unlocks deep human potential.
Self-Knowledge 2
Knowledge empowers, self-knowledge transforms.
Wise and Wiser
If you grow wise, those who you thought useless become your benefactors. If you grow wiser, even your enemy becomes your benefactor. However, if you are unwise, even your benefactors become useless.
The Best and Even Better
What you have now is the best you can have at the moment. Be grateful for it and use it well. You will have even better things in the future.
Information, Not Event
It is the information that you know, not the actual event itself, when you read, for example, a book that says the earth was formed four billion years ago.
The Power of Mind Over Body
Your mind has the power to heal or harm your body.
Not Truly Knowing
You do not truly know if you do not know what you do not know.
A Greater Obstacle to Knowing
Not knowing what you do not know is an obstacle to knowing. Believing you know what you do not know is a greater obstacle to knowing. Knowing what you do not know removes the obstacles.
Earning Money
The true value of earning money lies in the lessons it teaches.
Rediscovering Work
Work is a school of life where you learn to live. Salary is a scholarship.
Life Lessons
Your life has lessons for you each day.
Life Lessons 2
If you learn from your life, you grow and your life improves. Otherwise you repeat the same lessons and become a lesson for others.
Power Relations 2
Wanting something from someone such as money or recognition is putting yourself in a less powerful position than the person.
What You Truly Want
You miss what you truly want while chasing what you think you want.
Rediscovering Humans
From ones who work and consume to ones who are respected.
Human Flourishing
Humans can truly flourish when they live as humans, not as resources.
Eating
Animals gain weight by eating. The wise gain knowledge by eating.
True Eating
True eating is not just consuming lives but contributing to lives.
Basic Human Knowledge
Knowing what your body and mind are doing is a basic human knowledge. Without it, you can not live as the owner of your life but as a servant, even with all the wealth and power in the world.
Three Kinds of Knowledge
There are three kinds of knowledge: knowledge of nonself (the conventional knowledge), knowledge of self, and knowledge gained by knowing both self and nonself.
Three Kinds of Knowledge 3
Knowledge of nonself, the conventional knowledge, helps you get what you think you want. Knowledge of self helps you know what you truly want. Knowledge of both helps you grow beyond desire.
From Ignorance to Wisdom
Ignorance leads to foolishness. Foolishness leads to pain. Pain leads to wisdom.
Intelligence and Wisdom
Knowing truth is intelligence. Knowing truth from untruth is wisdom.
What You Want
What you want can enslave you if you do not know what will be lost for gaining it.
Desire 3
Desire empowers you if you use it, but enslaves you if you do not.
Consuming Desire 2
Consume desire if you do not want to be consumed by it.
Intelligence
Knowing what you sees is ordinary intelligence. Knowing yourself and the world from what you sees is great intelligence. Thinking voluntarily rather than involuntarily is greater intelligence.
True Intelligence
Intelligence that is not aware of its own ignorance is not true intelligence.
Adults
One who speaks with genuine motivation to benefit others is an adult, especially if others need what he says.
Seniors 3
We can not stop growing old but we can live as a senior, from whom others need advice, rather than as an old person.
Giving Up Peace
To have hatred is to give up peace.
Forgive No One
If you blame no one, you have no one to forgive.
Wellbeing
No wellbeing without inner wellbeing.
Wellbeing 4
The inner wellbeing of humanity is the foundation for the wellbeing of the world.
Climate Crisis
The climate crisis is a manifestation of the inner state of humanity.
Truly Helping Others
Solving the inner cause of your life hindrances and helping others to do so is truly helping others.
Truly Helping Humans
Not just giving food but giving education to live wisely is helping humans.
True Victory
True victory is a victory without losers, where everyone wins.
Your Power and Privilege
Acting with genuine motivation and intention to benefit others is your power and privilege that transforms yourself and the world.
World Transformation
Transforming ourselves within transforms our world.
source: New Direction Archive