And, as usual, here is GGSC's Happiness Calendar for this month of February 2026. The topic of this month is acting from a place of love. Here are some ideas that came up to my mind about it. Of course, we all are aware, of you read me from long enough, that happiness is not…
A new month, a new happiness calendar. Here it is the Action for Happiness' one for February 2026. This month's topic is being friendly and having friends. Here is some idea from me, about the topic of the month. We already know that appiness is not an interior possession sealed within the psyche, nor a…
I have long observed that certain locutions are so tightly bound to the linguistic, cultural, and cosmological matrices from which they arise that translation, in the ordinary sense, is not merely inadequate but category-mistaken. One may transport lexical correspondences, historical glosses, and philological annotations across languages, yet the operative meaning remains embedded in a lived…
In my recent Arabic readings, I came across the term صمت / ṣamt (silence), a word that at first appeared deceptively simple, almost austere in its semantic contour, yet which slowly revealed itself as carrying an ethical and metaphysical density far greater than its common translation suggests. I approach this term explicitly as a learner…
And of course, here it is the GGSC Happiness Calendar for the last month of this year. The topic of the month is seeking out joy together. Here are my ideas about the topic. Joy, when approached as a disciplined mode of perception rather than a fleeting emotional spike, reveals itself as a profound pathway…
And of course, here it is the GGSC Happiness Calendar for the last month of this year. The topic of the month is seeking out joy together. Here are my ideas about the topic. Joy, when approached as a disciplined mode of perception rather than a fleeting emotional spike, reveals itself as a profound pathway…
The world that reveals itself through practice is not an external aggregate of inert matter but a field of relational becoming. Each act of awareness, each inhalation and gesture, modifies the very ontology that sustains it. In the disciplined stillness of meditation, in the dynamic release of movement, and in the compassionate intelligence of ethical…
To speak of aesthetics in the context of practice is to evoke not the superficial allure of form, but the inner structure of appearance as the unveiling of truth. The ancients recognised that the beautiful is neither an ornament of being nor an accidental quality of perception, but a manifestation of reality’s coherence. When the…
The notion that ethics can be conceived as a dynamic circulation of energy, rather than a fixed code of moral prescriptions, is profoundly ancient, yet ever more urgent in our mechanised epoch of alienation. From the perspective of both Buddhist and Stoic cosmologies, energy—be it qi (氣), prāṇa (प्राण), or pneuma (πνεῦμα)—is never an inert…
The concept of alchemy, traditionally understood as the transmutation of base metals into gold, provides a profound metaphor for the dynamics of resistance and tension within both the corporeal and metaphysical spheres. In this context, force is never a mere physical vector; it is the ontological substrate of experience, the interface between potentiality and manifestation,…
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