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Video-AddictionLessons learnt during a break from the habit!
Yesterday was the first day of my new experimentation: Stopping the flow of a regular habit. The habit = Regularly watching senseless videos on YouTube. Yesterday,...
Continue reading...How Valuable Are You?How important are you in this human infected world???
I am miserable. Habitually. I was out to pick-up a dog cage from a pet shop yesterday. The cage was big and the street was narrow...
Continue reading...Physical Pain — The Greatest TeacherNothing teaches you harder about life than the good old anguish in the body.
I am one of those who constantly and intentionally creates problems for himself. Even when there is nothing significantly alarming in life, I have the habit...
Continue reading...Am I Shrewd Or Am I Ill?Is anxiety the cause or the effect?
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:...
Continue reading...What Is Existential Dread?How to deal with it?
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 RelevantThey go nowhere all the time!
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...
Continue reading...The Skill Of Selective TalkingWhy are some people boring to listen to?
A few days ago, I attended a small literary gathering. There were different kinds of creative and intellectual people with diversity in profession, career-track, writing styles,...
Continue reading...Human Knowledge Is a Big Fat TangleCan we look at our collective knowledge as the process of untangling the tangled?
The pursuit of truth for human being is often depicted as being a linear affair. It either goes up: We, evolved from apes, have managed to...
Continue reading...What Is Virtue?Can we freely select and manage our own virtues? What's your virtue, by the way?
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...
Continue reading...The Irony Of G.O.A.T – Who is a G.O.A.T?You worship your entertainers and you are ruled by them. This is because you feel tiny without them.
The modern scientifically trained democratic man wants to mock and laugh at all gods and kings ‘Haha, gods are dead. It all started with a big...
Continue reading...Laxmi Prasad DevkotaWhat was Devkota all about?
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,...
Continue reading...Observations On The Indian Premier League (IPL) CricketWhat is professional sports anyway?
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...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...What Is Social Studies?Its purpose is to tell you whose side you are on
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...
Continue reading...When The Greedy Shall Solely Inherit The WorldWhat about you — if you are not greedy?
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...
Continue reading...The Realm of Gods & KingsThere are two realms: On one dwell the Gods & Kings, and on the other You and I!
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...
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...
Continue reading...The Peoples of 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,...
Continue reading...Two Contrasting Questions
For me there are two questions. They aren’t in harmony though! Every now and then I reach to a state-of-mind which — if I am to...
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...
Continue reading...A Crisis Of Attention (Problems In Observing)
Forget quietly being around nature, I have gotten preoccupied with my own thoughts such that I am now unable to quietly even sleep in the comfort...
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...
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...
Continue reading...Apply What You Know!
The debate the other day was around the same question: What is the difference between knowing something and applying it in life? After a friend of...
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...
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...
Continue reading...Dealing With Injurious Bad Thoughts
A terrible nightmare woke me up at 3 AM this morning. It was followed by a 30 minutes or so of ridiculous post-dream analysis. I felt...
Continue reading...Will We Be Allowed To Freely Think and See tomorrow?
I am already quite alert while using my phone, laptop or TV. This alertness is because I am constantly reminded by a voice inside my head...
Continue reading...How To Handle Petty Philosophical Arguments?
I have often found myself in the middle of a philosophical-type argument fuming with anger, all pissed off, full of anxiety, speaking or typing at the...
Continue reading...Why Do Stories Make Us Feel That Way?
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...
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...
Continue reading...A Formula For Desire Management
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...
Continue reading...A Thought Experiment: Of An Alternative Existence
Let us imagine a habitable planet with – life, far far away! The planet is revolving around its own star. Its day-night period same as Earth’s....
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...
Continue reading...20 Wise Nepali Proverbs
The bigger the pile the bigger the strife Earlier this month, I compiled a list of 30 Nepali Proverbs: https://fradesh.medium.com/30-fun-and-wise-nepali-proverbs-5b4106f3e728 It was a fun ride. So, I...
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) — points previously opened...
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 —...
Continue reading...The Burden of Inevitability
For years she had dreamt of this trip. For years she had energized herself in the darkest of nights — thinking of this journey. The idea...
Continue reading...The Summit of Success!
One willing to go to the summit, should not give a damn about shame, disgust, sin, etc. Nepal may not be among the strongest and the...
Continue reading...On UG Krishnamurti
I intensely explored the internet for doses of wisdom. Philosophers, Spiritualists, Poets, Writers, Filmmakers, Artists, Scientists — I was on a mission to find and understand everyone...
Continue reading...Detoxify Yourself From The Silicon Valley Influence
Recently I wrote a piece analyzing Steve Jobs through his quotes: Understanding Steve Jobs Through His Quotes As I went through his life and ideas, I...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – The Dog, The Jackal and The Lion
Once a dog was strolling near a forest when he saw a jackal sitting with her cubs. The dog sensed a resemblance with them. He went...
Continue reading...Your Options in Life
When you realize that the environment you exist in is incompatible, unsuited for you and it becomes inhospitable, You have four options: You can either, Adjust...
Continue reading...A Formula For Effective Time-Management
We all are here with our own limited quota of time. There’s a lot to think, learn, do and live in this duration. At times it...
Continue reading...What are thoughts? – 2.1
A Brief History Throughout history, humans have attempted to understand the nature of thoughts, thinking, mind, heart, and brain. The Edwin Smith Papyrus of Egypt from...
Continue reading...Using Phone Wallpapers for Thought-Management
I was scrolling through the photos in my phone when I noticed something — Four years ago, for the first time I had edited a photo with...
Continue reading...What are Thoughts? – 1
It is activities such as the type I am doing right now which both amazes and amuses me on being a human being. What I mean...
Continue reading...Thought Machines
There is another way of looking at history — in terms of human beings’ struggle to understand, organize and use their own thoughts. So much so...
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