Number of words: 130 Shikan-taza is a heightened state of concentrated awareness wherein one is neither tense nor hurried, and certainly never slack. It is the mind of somebody facing death. Let us imagine that you are engaged in a duel of swordsmanship of the kind that used to take piace in ancient Japan. As … Read more
Number of words: 84 Another well known example of spontaneous intuitive insights are jokes. In the split second where you understand a joke you experience a moment of ‘enlightenment’. It is well known that this moment must come spontaneously, that it cannot be achieved by ‘explaining’ the joke, i.e. by intellectual analysis. Only with a … Read more
Number of words: 120 Anybody who wants to repeat an experiment in modern subatomic physics has to undergo many years of training. Only then will he or she be able to ask nature a specific question through the experiment and to understand the answer. Similarly, a deep mystical experience requires, generally, many years of training … Read more
Number of words: 151 This way of basing all theories firmly on experiment is known as the scientific method and we shall see that it has its counterpart in Eastern philosophy. Greek philosophy, on the other hand, was fundamentally different in that respect. Although Greek philosophers had extremely ingenious ideas about nature which often come … Read more
Number of words: 655 Throughout history, it has been recognized that the human mind is capable of two kinds of knowledge, or two modes of consciousness, which have often been termed the rational and the intuitive, and have traditionally been associated with science and religion, respectively. In the West, the intuitive, religious type of knowledge … Read more
Number of words: 688 The birth of modern science was preceded and accompanied by a development of philosophical thought which led to an extreme formulation of the spirit/matter dualism. This formulation appeared in the seventeenth century in the philosophy of Rene Descartes who based his view of nature on a fundamental division into two separate … Read more
Number of words: 102 The roots of physics, as of all Western science, are to be found in the first period of Greek philosophy in the sixth century B.C., in a culture where science, philosophy and religion were not separated. The sages of the Milesian school in lonia were not concerned with such distinctions. Their … Read more
Number of words: 98 Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it . as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and … Read more
Number of words: 829 The Muslims constitute about 12 percent of our population. On every index of development – income, education, health, share in government services, share in private enterprise, role in self employment, membership in legislatures – the level of their achievement is substantially below their share of the population. The only index on … Read more
Number of words: 691 It is the overwhelming showing of the Muslim League in 1946 that constitutes the basis of the joint Muslim League Sangh Parivar thesis that the Muslims of India brought about the Partition. But let us look at the facts a little more closely. The british Indian province in which the Muslims … Read more
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