The Way of Balance

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The Way of Balance

  • “Consciousness Precedes Matter”

    The question of whether matter arose before consciousness or vice versa is a complex and has long been debated to no avail that it has no definitive answer. However, this piece of writing is not to answer whether matter or consciousness came first, but instead focuses on how consciousness can determine matter. To start, the…

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  • How Knowledge May Weigh You Down

    “Knowledge is power”, “knowledge is treasure”, “knowledge can change lives”, etc. There are many views on knowledge, but most are positive. Is knowledge always good? The answer is… it depends. The line lies between knowing enough and knowing as much as possible. If you aim at obtaining sufficient knowledge to do a certain thing in…

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  • On Contentment

    It is generally agreed that excessive greed is unholy, thus the source of misery and unhappiness. Individuals as well as collective groups fight one another over personal and local-scale desires. It is the fact that people do not feel what they have as enough that they continue to seek more. The more they gain what…

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  • Presetting the Faculty of Perception

    A saying goes, “Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional,” which is true, but mostly applies in time of peace. Imagine, during wartime, when people are constantly facing the risk of death at any moment; life is simply miserable. Is suffering inevitable, then? But as we are living in peace, most of our suffering comes…

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  • Maturity

    Growing is a continuously never-ending process. All beings grow physically, but in terms of maturity, humans also have the mental aspect to it. Physical growth has never been a matter of much heed. Born to life, we grow and age, get sick along the way and eventually death comes to pick us up on his…

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