1.Research has already stated that obesity is a risk factor for neurocognitive decline. Obesity has become a widespread lifestyle disease that affects individuals regardless of age, gender, race, or culture. Many studies are being conducted on the relationship between obesity, defined as an excessive accumulation of fat, and brain function. Research has shown that structural […]
10 facts: The link between obesity and brain functionðŸ§
Recycling an old post I related to more than others. So little do I have to say, and much is asked of me. That I may personify myself in the hopes of man, that I may speak audibly and move noticeably! All men have asked these of me, and that’s because so little does man […]
Thus Spake the Self
What if the problem isn’t that life lacks meaning, but that I’ve become addicted to finding it? I’ve spent years mistaking intensity for reality, turning ordinary moments into philosophical problems and boredom into something to escape. Lately, I’m trying something different: letting things remain ordinary, resisting the urge to explain everything, and perhaps learning that nothing has gone wrong simply because nothing particularly profound is happening.
The Search for The Extraordinary
Every experience unfolds in layers. What begins as a simple sensation gradually becomes a feeling, a meaning, a story, and finally a behavior. Most of our suffering does not arise from reality itself but from the layers the mind builds upon it. By learning to recognize this process, we can begin to respond to life directly instead of being driven by old patterns that seek to resolve an inner tension.
The Layers of Lived Reality: from Sensations to Behavior
Much of what we call ourselves is nothing more than borrowed meaning. It was inherited without our choosing, quietly shaping how we think, act, and experience the world. Freedom begins not by becoming someone new, but by allowing these borrowed meanings to fall away until what remains no longer needs to be maintained.
Shedding Borrowed Meanings
The new flashing before the heart, the jealous old, the father, the castle made of the mother, the cries of the newborn, the blinding light of the new world, the absolutely indeterminate nature of the Self, the disappearance of Christ, submerging of the old and the emerging of the new. Addiction to faces, to looks, […]
Where Nothing Stands
We spend much of our lives carrying a weight that was never ours. We try to fix every thought, control every feeling, and hold our inner world together through endless effort. But what if freedom is not found by changing the mind at all? What if it begins the moment we stop reacting to its endless drama and simply allow it to come and go?
The Weight We Were Never Meant to Carry
The world fascinates only so long as its shadow is mistaken for substance. When the gaze turns from things to the appearing itself, the search falls silent, and what alone has always been reveals itself without ever having emerged.
The Absolute Stranger
The phenomenological reduction is often mistaken for a philosophical technique or intellectual exercise. Yet, at its deepest, it is an awakening, a breakthrough from our immersion in the obviousness of the world into the ever-hidden dimension of transcendental life. The world does not vanish; rather, it becomes transparent, revealing itself as an ongoing accomplishment of consciousness. What remains is not certainty, but wonder before the mystery that makes all appearing possible.
When the World Becomes Transparent: Phenomenological Reduction as the Breakthrough into Transcendental Dimension of Being
Thus philosophy as phenomenology must begin by a persistent renunciation of all that is taken for granted, including the natural thesis of being-human-in-the-world. It does not deny such existence, or Being for that matter, for such denial (idealism) is itself a taking of a position, a tendency within the natural attitude. Instead, phenomenologizing refrains from any position with regard to reality or unreality, existence or non-existence, of contents of experience; it brackets all matters of existences and instead regards the world as mere phenomenon; it doesn’t buy into its claim of existence, neither does it reject that claim; it remains in the attitude of abstention.
What is a Philosopher
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