Tag: spirituality
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Existence vs Experience
Existence vs Experience Why confusing the two creates most philosophical problems Introduction We often speak as if existence and experience are the same thing. “This exists because I experience it.” “If no one experiences it, does it really exist?” “My experience proves reality.” These statements feel intuitive — but they hide a deep confusion. This…
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What Remains When Ability Is Removed
Most discussions about success focus on ability.Who was more skilled. Who worked harder. Who deserved more. But ability never exists alone.It always exists inside an environment. So a better question is this: If we remove ability, what remains? To understand this, we don’t need modern examples.The Mahabharata already shows us the structure clearly. Three Figures,…
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Why Seeing More Does Not Make You Powerful
Why Seeing More Does Not Make You Powerful Many people believe that seeing more makes a person powerful.That awareness gives control.That understanding reality automatically grants strength. This belief is comforting — and incomplete. Seeing does not make you powerful.Seeing is safe.Awareness is not. Seeing Has No Consequence Consider a simple example. A person standing on…
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Feelings Are Not Born — They Are Outcomes
Feelings Are Not Born — They Are Outcomes It is often said that emotions like anger, hatred, or jealousy arise from within us and must simply be controlled. But this assumption hides a deeper truth: feelings are not born; they are outcomes. They do not appear in a vacuum. They arise from how the world…
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DRAIN LEAF — THE OBSERVER’S CURSE
This chapter is written as an observation, not a conclusion. 🌿 DRAIN LEAF — THE OBSERVER’S CURSE Why seeing patterns creates distance, not power Core Statement Observation is not neutral. The moment a person starts seeing patterns,they stop participating blindly. And that change has a cost. The observer is never fully inside the system again.…
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Observer, Duality of Nature, and the Limits of Reality
Observer, Duality of Nature, and the Limits of Reality By Shankar Introduction Modern science often treats reality as something objective — existing independently of us, waiting to be discovered.But when we examine nature more closely, especially through quantum experiments, this assumption begins to break. What if reality is not something we simply uncover?What if reality…
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Culture With Nature, Culture Without Nature
Culture With Nature, Culture Without Nature There are cultures that grow inside nature,and there are cultures that grow over nature. At a distance, both appear religious.Up close, they represent opposite relationships with life. God Who Lives in the Forest In many Adivasi communities, god does not live in stone or walls.God lives in the jaher…
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Leaf vs Drain: Why Systems Look Moral but Behave Brutal
CHAPTER 1LEAF vs DRAINWhy systems look moral but behave brutalMost people understand the world through stories.Very few understand it through mechanisms.That difference decides who gets confused by lifeand who starts seeing patterns.The Two Layers of RealityEvery system you see —school, family, religion, office, politics, society —operates in two layers.I call them:Leaf RealityandDrain RealityLeaf is what…
Drain Leaf 