As our sensory-material world draws us into its web, being distanced from its sensations and objects feels unsatisfactory. This is because we have identified sensations and activities as the source of our pleasures. In meditation there is an effort to 'be' rather than 'do': a steady dis-identification from the objects of consciousness, including the self, …
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Why do artists and academics earn less than the value of their work?
The money that artists and academics make fall short of the value of their work. Why? Let’s take a case study: music streaming service Spotify does not pay its musicians well. Let’s examine if they could. There are two non-exclusive ways they could pay their musicians more. Either they could maintain their profit and start …
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On a passing
It's the 14th of June, 2017, and a man has shot several congressmen who were practicing at a baseball field, before being shot by the police and succumbing to his wounds. As I tinkered about in the kitchen for breakfast, I caught snippets of this from the news that my landlords were watching in the …
Let them be.
Let them be as they wish, and they will create you something beautiful. Beauty that you in your dark-glass dreams had never cared to imagine. They shall show you rage, to break down the formidable walls of smoke that you build to keep yourselves in from being better. They shall show you who we are, …
What is Beauty? Case in Point: the ‘China Campus Model’ Controversy
With this post, I am about to take somewhat of a bold first leap into issues that are socially and culturally controversial. I have not spoken directly about such topics ever before on my blog, but I have thought about it and see no reason why I cannot write unequivocally on issues that I feel …
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One Life 