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