Advice from Buson

I am reading Three Simple Lines from Natalie Goldberg and she quotes Buson to the group of travelers that are in this Japan trip together: “What you want to acquire, you should dare to acquire by any means. What …

Leibniz’s monad concept

I am reading Didik Didik Freud by Serol Teber and Şenol Ayla and they referred to Tevfik Fikret’s lifestyle as “monadlaşmış” (monadic), describing the concept of monad as: Monad, ünlü filozof Leibniz’in bulduğu …

Uncovering the threads of meaning

I am watching episode 7 of Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, where John Vervaeke discusses mindfulness as a psychotechnology that helps us uncover the threads of meaning in our lives. He discusses India’s …

Uncovering the threads of meaning

I am watching episode 7 of Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, where John Vervaeke discusses mindfulness as a psychotechnology that helps us uncover the threads of meaning in our lives. He discusses India’s …

A worldview where everything doesn’t exist for us

I’m reading How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell, and she mentions the German philosopher Martin Buber and his book I and Thou. For Buber, there are two ways of looking at the world: I–It In the I–It way of looking, I …