Faith & Spirituality

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  • Naming and Qualia

    Naming and Qualia

    We see the world through the grid of language. For newborn babies, the world looks chaos. Everything they see is a stream of colorful…

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  • Maya’s Veil

    Maya’s Veil

    How do we know the world is real? How do we know our life is real? After all, what we see is what we…

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  • Absolute Subjectivity

    Absolute Subjectivity

    Consciousness has levels. It is one of the well-accepted concepts. When we live only with our survival instinct, our consciousness level is at the…

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  • Spiritual Reading

    Spiritual Reading

    There are two types of reading. One is to possess knowledge. Through reading, we can learn new things and keep them in our mind.…

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  • Love Our Enemies

    Love Our Enemies

    Our human history is full of bloody incidents. We’ve been killing one another ever since. From tribal societies to modern nation-states the world has…

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  • Life and the Resurrection

    Life and the Resurrection

    Stones exist. We exist. What is the difference? 100 years from now on, these stones could exist, even if these would be broken down…

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  • Inferno

    Inferno

    On Black Saturday, we inevitably reflect on the fifth phrase the Apostles’ Creed. It consists of the following twelve articles. And the fifth one…

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  • We Crucified Him

    We Crucified Him

    When I was a child, I wondered why Rembrandt painted himself with a blue beret in this scene of the Crucifixion. Besides, he depicted…

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  • Be a Servant of All

    Be a Servant of All

    On Maundy Thursday, we commemorate the Washing of the Feet, based on the Gospel narrative. After Last Supper, Jesus washed the feet of His…

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  • Things as They Are

    Things as They Are

    When we were a newborn baby, there was no distinction between the world and ourselves. We were utterly unconscious, spontaneous, even intuitive. The world…

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  • Four Noble Truths

    Four Noble Truths

    After seven weeks of fasting and meditation, Buddha found the way of how we can address the reality that life is suffering. The solution…

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  • By Prayer and Fasting

    By Prayer and Fasting

    During Lent, we practice fasting and austerity in our daily life. Some skip one meal a day. Still, some refrain from eating meat. Others…

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