An Evolving Life: Recent Episodes
Kiran Pillai
These talks share my evolving personal philosophy on life. Having studied life from several schools of thought, and having survived tough situations in life, there might be some gold in here for you to mine. Lend me an ear..
When life is smooth and comfortable, we fall into patterns of addictions and downward tendencies. When you are absolutely forced to perform, the fire within is kindled. It is the hard times that often brings out the best in us.
We have no control over disasters in life. We are just one step away from major tragedy such as death, illness, natural disasters, riots, war, and many more. How can we be at peace when such challenges appear before us? How will we approach life disasters?
As human beings, we never had so many options to spend time as we have today. However, the first choice before us is to be amused by mindless entertainment. We are a species keen on being pleased, more than being conscious. Time is precious.
Service has many levels to it. It starts on a very micro level with just you as the person. You serve yourself first. Slowly you work your way through to immediate surroundings, people closest to you. It is much later that you could serve the wide world. Service at a world level takes time.
Being in a family comes with certain benefits for men. The capacity to be a good husband would help a man reach his Dharmic goals much more effectively. In today's day and age, when being single is being celebrated as freedom, this talk explores why such freedom is not truly free..
How do we decide what our Dharma is? Does Dharma change, or is it the same at all times? Is Dharma a stable concept, or does it change with time? How can we model our choices around the questions on Dharma?
When you start to follow your fear, you come face to face with the dark side within you. Choose to work on the darkness within you, to eventually taste a bit of freedom
If you ever access a state of oneness, where the doer of action and action has no separation from each other, consider yourself lucky. It might simply be the state that world champion game finishers reach, at the peak of their careers.
Martial arts is something that you discover within you. As humans, we have our genetic code designed to fight and defend using our bare limbs and things. Prepare your mind and body in order to see the fighter arise from within yourself.
We have many interpretations on what it takes to be a stoic human being. I believe it is about taking the middle path between excitement and inaction.
This is an experiment with podcasting. I wish to share my findings in life with world in general