enlightenment - Posts

I haven recently been watching the TV show The Good Place. The titular Good Place is simply what we understand to be heaven; a place where some hope t...

Argues that enlightenment is not attained absolutely. Instead it is achieved in steps, including plenty of backsliding.

We would often find that having many questions and few answers is an undesirable state. This is good since it drives us to find answers but also bad s...

It is easy to say and it feels right to say that we should seek truth. Truth is one of the key tenants of the Enlightenment movement. Rather than foll...

I have already written about a practice centred on the powerful emotion of compassion. However, today I came across an interesting variation of a prac...

The universe is very big. We are very small. The universe exists for an immeasurably long time. Our lives are very short. These are simple facts that ...

I believe we all have moments in which we become the best versions of ourselves; moments in which we are ever so slightly closer to true and deep enli...

I think it is human nature that we are constantly disappointed with ourselves and others. One fundamental driver for this is our struggle between altr...

I think the tension between the difficult and the easy, between that which we can do only with struggle, and that we we can do with ease, is an import...