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“Compassion is love that rolls up its sleeves, and gets to work.”
Samvara (Geoff Malone)

Padmasambhava
“May all sentient beings, children of buddha nature, realise the ultimate nature of mind: insight and compassion, in blissful union.”
Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Ujjwal Ganesh
“The greatest danger isn't the things we can't see. It's the things we look right at, but never notice.”
Ujjwal Ganesh, The Observation Effect: See What 99% of People Miss and Reshape Your Reality

Abhijit Naskar
“Beginner's Guide to The East
(Naskaristana 2758-2760)

Even when the west does embrace the east, it ends up drawing from superstitious fringes, and rebrands it as self awareness and spirituality - thus catholic guilt gets replaced with chakra cleansing, and christian afterlife is substituted with karmic justice -

for once in your life grow the brain and backbone to look at life as a living being, not as shape shifting vegetable, trading one gullibility for another, one fanaticism for another, one dogma for another -

there's no point in denouncing domestic dogma, if you end up importing your prejudices and blind faith from elsewhere.

Problem is, the race of apes have a stronger affinity to superstition than common sense, no matter the country or culture - westerners are drawn to eastern superstitions, just like easterners are drawn to western superstitions like ultraindividualism.

However, there is one little caveat here, while western ultraindividualism is rather straightforward and easy to detect, superstitions of the east, or in fact, any of the civilizations of global south, are often too complex for western comprehension -

so be very careful while calling out superstitions of the global south, in fact, put your caucasian cleverness aside, and take your cues from actual native thinkers, otherwise chances are, you'd be continuing your filthy ancestral habits of calling the natives savages, brainwashed by your subconscious colonial mindset, while believing yourself to be the voice of reason, not unlike how many of the brilliant militant atheists behave.

Remember one thing, the entire colonial terrorist lot not only believed that God was on their side, they also thought they were the voice of reason - so no matter how sure you are about your sense of truth, dehumanization always comes bearing the badge of religion, and waving the flag of reason.”
Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Ujjwal Ganesh
“Your brain is wired with a confirmation bias; it actively seeks out information that confirms your existing beliefs.”
Ujjwal Ganesh, The Observation Effect: See What 99% of People Miss and Reshape Your Reality

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