Fr. Adesh
The Visionary Approach To Life
Being Visionary is more about will than originality. I don’t know how it goes with entities such as stars and rocks and rivers but with those of us living...
Continue reading...Seven Deadly Poisons Of Modern Life
Stay away. Stay healthy!!! Do you also worry you are not doing enough or learning enough? Given your standard of yourself, do you think you aren’t productive enough? Do...
Continue reading...Why Read Hardcopy Books?
Before getting into why books should be read books in hardcopies, let me give some background. This mind of ours is a weird thing of which we still have...
Continue reading...Where Is The Meaning of Life?
For those who live by the ultimate questions of their existence and yet cannot satisfy themselves with the religious-spiritual view. Who cannot convince themselves with the scientific-evolutionary narrative. For...
Continue reading...I Forgot To Feel
I can still recall how great it felt as a child to perceive natural features like a forest, a river, a dark cloud, or rain. I also felt good at...
Continue reading...Heil Humans
It’s beneficial to step back and observe the human race from a distance, forgetting about your own goals and concerns for a while. In the true Schopenhauerian ‘will-less contemplation’...
Continue reading...Video Addiction
What’s a Video Addiction? Yesterday was the first day of my new experimentation: Stopping the flow of a regular habit. The habit = Regularly watching senseless videos on YouTube....
Continue reading...How Valuable Are You?
Q: How valuable am I? A: I am miserable. Habitually. I was out to pick-up a dog cage from a pet shop yesterday. The cage was big and the...
Continue reading...Physical Pain — The Greatest Teacher
Before getting into why I consider physical pain to be the greatest teacher, let me give some background. I am one of those who constantly and intentionally creates problems...
Continue reading...Anxiety: Shrewdness Or Illness?
You notice your anxiety and it burns such that you cannot help but question why you are feeling that way. By then, you have tried everything: distraction, inspiration, perspiration....
Continue reading...Random Writing
After sharing some Random Thoughts, I want to talk about Random Writing. Every now and then it is a blessing to be able to just sit down to write...
Continue reading...Poem: I am You
They walk, they talk, they strife Their own glory is their drive They bounce about the earth shitting the next meal Like gnats around my table sniffing the leftover...
Continue reading...Nepal — A Nation That Disgusted Me With Mankind
I haven’t been-to or lived in the United States, or the United Kingdom, or Norway, or some nation similar — which means I cannot tell how those nations will make you...
Continue reading...What Is Existential Dread?
Medium Link: What Is Existential Dread?. It is anxiety due to the awareness of… | by Adesh Acharya | Jul, 2022 | Medium
Continue reading...Trying To Make Philosophical Conversations Relevant
I find myself feeling empty and frustrated during conversations of philosophical nature. By that, I mean conversations that are not gossip, or about success or money and are about...
Continue reading...Voltaire’s Science Fiction ‘Micromégas’
We talk about the world moving ‘fast’ today but Europe in the 18th century must have been faster. Yes, these express technological developments are blinding and who knows how...
Continue reading...The Skill Of Selective Talking
Before getting into selective talking, I want to give present some background. A few days ago, I attended a small literary gathering. There were different kinds of creative and...
Continue reading...The Read-Write Balance Agitation
I don’t think I am alone in this. I am sure I am not alone in this. This restlessness is painful! When I start a book, I do not...
Continue reading...Human Knowledge Is a Big Fat Tangle
The pursuit of truth for human beings (Human knowledge) is often depicted as being a linear affair. It either goes up: We, evolved from apes, have managed to create...
Continue reading...Dealing With Verbal Poison
There are many who, out of ignorance, out of envy or out of their own self-insignificance-perception will spit verbal poison at you. They will — with their petty mind...
Continue reading...Life Is BIGGER Than Career
An interviewer asks the Iranian Film Director Abbas Kiarostami how he would like his legacy as a filmmaker /artist to be. In other words, he asks Abbas what he would...
Continue reading...Poem: Tiger and a Mouse
He has two forms:Inner and OuterAlone and with other. While alone, he is viciousLike a hungry tiger! Someone comes and he transformsInto a mouse!
Continue reading...Poem: Me and my sky
Oh! How many nights have I spent In my roof staring at the sky above Listening to Steve Roach Living little beauties alone. Oh! How many mornings have...
Continue reading...Poem: Beer and Poetry
You drink beer and while it lasts: The whole world seems manageable It’s same with poetry You write or read one and while it lasts: The whole world seems...
Continue reading...Poem: What Is Poetry?
You grab a creature with an ability to word and place it in a planet far-far off. The first thing it will do to make sense of its reality...
Continue reading...What Is Virtue?
The Thesaurus in Merriam Webster defines virtue as such: a quality that gives something special worth But I like to define virtue as such: a quality that you either have or...
Continue reading...The Irony Of G.O.A.T – What is GOAT?
Let’s give some background before we discuss what is a GOAT: The modern scientifically trained democratic man wants to mock and laugh at all gods and kings ‘Haha, gods...
Continue reading...Laxmi Prasad Devkota
In Nepal, it is difficult to find an intellectual unstained by Hindu/Buddhist or some sort of political ideology. This tendency might be a global phenomenon, yet, in Nepal, it...
Continue reading...What is professional sports?
I avidly followed professional sports once upon a time — especially cricket. I ‘liked/adored/followed’ teams, players: their style, etc. And then philosophical interests kicked in and I began questioning...
Continue reading...Poem: Where’s Your Hand?
Sound of the electric woodsaw fills the southern air as cars, buses and motorbikes rule the street out there. To rhyme and be poetic – why do I care?...
Continue reading...The Edgar Allan Poe Way
I think Edgar Allan Poe’s Eureka is one of the most underrated works of speculative philosophy: Books in Brief — Edgar Allan Poe: Eureka | by Adesh Acharya |...
Continue reading...Science vs Philosophy vs Art
Medium link. Published on Illumination: https://medium.com/illumination/science-vs-philosophy-vs-art-8511b5a2d439
Continue reading...What Is Social Studies?
As I think back on the subjects I was taught at school, I find no subject more general and peculiar than Social Studies. Other subjects were pretty much straightforward and...
Continue reading...When The Greedy Shall Solely Inherit The World
An Euro-American lover-of-money — moneyphile — named Peter Thiel wants to live forever! While his greed for money and his desire to live forever are his personal choices — what amazes me is his greed...
Continue reading...The Realm of Gods & Kings
You, born in a normal family with normal requirements in life and a normal worldview properly begin your social life with your school. There you are immediately introduced to...
Continue reading...My Interpretation of Cory Doctorow’s Attack Surface (Medium Link)
My Interpretation Of Attack Surface | by Adesh Acharya | Mar, 2022 | Medium
Continue reading...The Real Philosophy
Philosophy’s task is to Understand and Guide Life and the World. That is what Real Philosophy is and should be. Philosophy in general tends to get a bad rap...
Continue reading...How Essential is Learning?
A quick glance of known/believed human history will reveal to us one constant: Learning is essential. Vital. Crucial! Learning in the sense of: the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills,...
Continue reading...Two Contrasting Questions
For me there are two contrasting questions. Never in harmony! Every now and then I reach to a state-of-mind which — if I am to bring to thoughts —...
Continue reading...The Crisis of Goethe’s Faust
The opening few pages of The First Part of the Tragedy in Goethe’s Faust is where Faust laments and complains. This I call the Faust crisis as it expresses...
Continue reading...Business and Peace
While thinking about the ongoing war in Eastern Europe and its consequences, my thought went to the businesses that are being adversely affected – along with lives in both...
Continue reading...Life in Nepal
I had this idea to open my laptop and write in short about life in Nepal – the country of my birth and citizenship. Things to write have weird...
Continue reading...Morning Shows the Day – Is it True?
Morning shows the day is a popular proverb. Is it correct, or is it merely a case of a lazy attachment towards mornings? Let me give some background first....
Continue reading...Attention Crisis
Before talking about attention crisis, let me share a small story: Forget quietly being around nature, I am preoccupied with my own thoughts so much that I am now...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – Do As They Do
Be careful on how you act around your children. Once in a hilly area, there lived an old man. His wife was dead so all he had was his...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – Four Men
Come together with people who are special like you and together – do things special! Once there lived a hunter. He always lay in woods and fields with his...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – Wise vs Intelligent vs Smart
It is not about being fast. It is about doing what’s appropriate. Once there lived a tortoise, a frog, and a snake nearby a river. They were good friends....
Continue reading...Some Random Thoughts…
As I sit here with my laptop staring at this white canvas that tells me to write my story, I wonder who I might be writing it for. I...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – The Path To Wisdom
Wisdom is difficult to acquire. You have got to be patient and must continue to learn and persevere. Once there lived a king who loved to hunt. While on...
Continue reading...Apply knowledge into action
The other day the debate was around the same question: What is the difference between knowing something and applying that knowledge in life? After a friend of mine said...
Continue reading...Books in Brief — Edgar Allan Poe: Eureka
Read Duration: 2–3 days (It is short but requires attention.) Author: Edgar Allan Poe Year: 1848 Genre: Non-Fiction Sub-Genre: Philosophy. Cosmology. Spirituality. Opening sentence: To the few who love me and whom I love, to those...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – Four Fools
Vanity, Stupidity, Greed and Cunnigness: The FOUR Deadly Poisons. Once a poisonous snake intentionally rested in the middle of a forest road blocking the path to its only river....
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – The Doubts Of A Chameleon
We look at others and think they have it all. We wish we did what they did. But, what we forget is: There is a reason why we are...
Continue reading...Free Working
When it comes to earning a living or fulfilling our wants in life, it is tempting to settle at one profession and define ourselves forever with that. I am...
Continue reading...An Effective Movie Watching Formula
I absolutely hate these kinds of writings: Who the hell do I think I am to be writing about methods of my movie watching! Am I a producer? No....
Continue reading...Dealing With Bad Thoughts
Background Before talking in detail about bad thoughts, let me give some context. A terrible nightmare woke me up at 3 AM this morning. After that, I went into...
Continue reading...Future of Thinking
I asked myself about the future of thinking after I noticed how alert I was getting using my phone, laptop and TV. I tried to understand the alertness and...
Continue reading...How To Handle Philosophical Arguments?
I have often found myself in the middle of philosophical arguments fuming with anger, full of anxiety. Speaking or typing at the speed of light what my fast-beating heart...
Continue reading...Why Do We Like Stories?
Because They Are Travels: Into a Different Space, Time and Identity. If I am to recall the moments from my childhood when I have felt the strongest in a...
Continue reading...We Humans Never Learn!
We humans tend to think we are really smart as a species. I don’t remember who, but someone surely said — this is because we don’t have any other...
Continue reading...Desire Management Formula
I had developed a desire-management formula. I have been implementing it for more than a couple of years now. The reason for sharing? It has proved to be very...
Continue reading...Thought Experiment of an Alternative Existence
Let us begin this thought experiment by imagining a habitable planet with life. Far Far away! The planet is revolving around its own star. Its day-night period same as...
Continue reading...Rahul Sankrityayan — The Birth of Brahman and Reincarnation
Rahul Sankrityayan was an Indian Marxist thinker who studied, travelled and wrote a lot. Here I want to quickly share his views on the birth and use of Hindu God...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – Integrity of A Woman
Live a life of Integrity and Intelligence. Once there lived a Pandit who had a beautiful wife. In fact, so beautiful that every man who ever laid eyes on...
Continue reading...20 Wise Proverbs from Nepal
The bigger the pile the bigger the strife. Earlier this month, I compiled a list of 30 Nepali Proverbs which had some wise proverbs: 30 Wise Proverbs From Nepal It...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – Presence of Mind
When in crisis, always remember to stay calm. Try to understand the situation instead of reacting. Make things happen with what you have. Once there lived an old woman....
Continue reading...Look At Things From A Different Angle
When we have anxieties and frustrations, our thoughts are stuck at some point in between the present (A) and the future (B). Both being points previously opened by ourselves...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – Grit Of A Sparrow
Hardships in life are inevitable. It’s up to us to figure out how we come out of them. Grit and Courage are invaluable toolkits! This story is about...
Continue reading...Why Read And Write?
Written words are static in nature. Other forms of expression which rely on words such as speech are dynamic. Written words remain static unless mobilized — which equips the...
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