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Om Swami
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Om Swami's personal blog at omswami.com covers philosophy and health. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on loneliness and the need for others. One comment connects its idea of accepting people as things that simply are to Zen Buddhism and Stoicism.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Om Swami is a monk, author, and serial entrepreneur. He is the founder of Sri Badrika Ashram, os.me, Black Lotus, and Sadhana app. Official website.
What Hacker News says?
http://omswami.com/2011/11/the-successful-and-the-successfoo...
Comment linking /2011/11/the-successful-and-the-successfool.html
on “Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company”Submitted The Secret of Happiness as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTry this: http://omswami.com/book/a-fistful-of-wisdom
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on “Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?”Life and everything (non-technical): http://omswami.com Treasure of practical knowledge right from the mouth of one who has attained enlightenment in the transcidental sense of the word. Biweekly post – 1st and 3rd Saturday every month. Earlier (till about an year ago) for roughly 5 years, it was every Saturday so there's lot of pearls of wisdom in there with amusing tales and jokes to instill the knowledge within.
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on “Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?”Empathy is one of the greatest spiritual quality [0]. You should explore spirituality and who knows that you may progress faster than average individuals [1]. 0] http://omswami.com/2014/12/seed-empathy.html 1] http://omswami.com/2014/10/if-truth-be-told.html
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on “Your Most Important Skill: Empathy”You may wish to read and try out some of these. An extract from [4]: >>> A man lost his right hand in a freak accident. He quit his job and became really negative and bitter. Unable to put up with his attitude, his girlfriend broke up with him. This young man went into deep depression and shunned everyone. For months, he didn’t meet or talk to any of his friends. Just when his wounds were starting to heal, he went o…
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on “Peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head”Not just mother earth. Yogis have discovered in Samadhi (meditation trans) since ages that the universe itself is a giant body with us are like cells in it. Macrocosm is same as microcosm. http://omswami.com/2015/06/the-greatest-secret.html This experience cannot be gain in a lab setting – you yourself are the lab, meditation is the tool and quieting the mind is the process to experience this.
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on “How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation”http://omswami.com/2018/04/enlightenment.html In my personal experience, enlightenment is realizing, at the depth of my being, this prospective that nothing, absolutely nothing in this world, including my body, relationships, wealth and my possessions are going to last for ever; everything is impermanent and my problems are extremely tiny compare to the immensity of the universe, so I should take it easy and live li…
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on “The Problem of Mindfulness”I learned from Zen Buddhism the same idea that you share here. Indeed, if we treat other people like other act of god, i.e. as things that don't act but just are, a lot of stress, anger, and sadness will vanish [1]. Zen and Stoicism are similar in their promotion of acceptance. I happen to feel more drawn to Zen because of their comprehensive guide towards how to achieve this acceptance. [1] Within Zen, this idea is…
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on “Modern life is lonely – We all need someone to help”I'd recommend [0] as a reading on this topic. The Welness Sense ... combines the yogic view of food as sattvic, rajasic and tamasic with Ayurvedic perspective and further relates it to the modern view of foods as acidic and alkaline. This is also the first time that Ayurvedic prakriti (vata, pitta and kapha) has been discussed in the context of yogic prakriti (sattvic, rajasic and tamasic) in a truly cohesive fashio…
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on “A New Connection Between the Gut and Brain”If you'd like to read yogic prospective on depression [0] is a good start. [1] is a book on the same by the article's author Om Swami. However, let me warn you that this will venture you into concepts of human body you have likely not heard of and which has not been studied extensively by modern medical science. However, it's heavily researched and applied at least for thousands of years in India etc. >>> Depression…
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on “How I’m Handling My Depression Using an App”Yogic view of loneliness (and ways to overcome it) is quite different from our contemporary ideas. http://omswami.com/2018/10/loneliness.html
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on “An Epidemic of Loneliness in America?”It's not impossible but it requires a long sincere practice to peel off the layers of false identities that we associate ourselves with. These are gradually created starting right from our birth. However one way it's true because once compassion for all beings (not just humans) becomes our nature, we no longer remain human – we become divine. That's the goal of all paths of Yoga (Karma/devotion/meditation/wisdom) Th…
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on “The idea of empathy for all ignores the limits of human psychology”I also practice concentrative meditation and the sensations just keep on increasing as you keep walking on the path. Seems like one is just full of these sensations. As per yogic texts, we have three bodies [0] comprising of five sheeths. One of the sheaths is called pranik (energy). I alternate between sound (mantra) and form, and sometimes formless as well [1]. Ke to do concentrative meditation can be summed up in…
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on “Ask HN: What's it like getting better at meditation?”(continueing remaining post) considering it an experiment, if successful, would not only be helpful for our planet but also rewarding for our individual selves. I can definitely squeeze 5 minutes out of 70080 minutes per week to see if there’s any truth in it. PS. Just like U.S. continues to produce brilliant research in technologies and material sciences, India continues to produce brilliant souls for spiritual evo…
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on “Tell HN: A spiritual Start-up/experiment for world piece”