SOCIETY
New Acropolis India’s ‘Travelling Beyond’ initiative curated its inaugural exploration, a 10-day journey to Egypt in January 2024. Led by a senior instructor on Egyptian Symbolism and a very good local Egyptologist guide, the trip immersed its 32 participants in the culture, history, mythology, and philosophy of ancient Egypt.
It is said that the founder of Buddhism in Japan, the monk Mahakashyapa, received his illumination directly from Shakyamuni (Gautama Buddha), during what is known as the Silent Sermon or the Flower Sermon. Buddha held up a white flower to a crowd of assembled monks.
Philosophers and social scientists agree that human action can only be fully understood by relating it to the context in which it takes place. Nothing can be understood in isolation from its context, and nothing even exists without a context. It is always the context that gives meaning to what we think and do, and explains why we do what we do.
How do we utilize this human potential to overcome darkness?
Sivan: I want to tell you a secret. There is only light. There is no darkness. Because darkness is not the opposite of light, it’s just the absence of light. So, our focus needs to be on the light and how to work with the light.
The practice of concentration is essential so that each of us can freely build our destiny. It allows us to get out of confusion and helps us to better control ourselves. Concentration exercises in daily life facilitate the development of our ability to overcome obstacles without repression or violence in order to obtain a more harmonious daily life.
Far from being an academic exercise of accumulating information about philosophers, Philosophy was always meant to be a path of investigation, of discovering our true nature, while simultaneously
discovering deeper truths about life: Who am I? Is there a purpose to life?
Ours is a moral struggle to achieve the conquest of our human values.The effort and struggle that precede any victory, whether great orsmall, are especially evident on the innermost planes of thepersonality.There is no doubt that many efforts require the active participation ofthe body and the energy. But the root of that physical effort is alwaysto be found in the things we know or the things we want; the forces ofwanting and knowing are powerful motivations.
Delia certainly lived all her life with this vocation to do something useful, to help others and to improve the world she encountered. For all those who knew her, she was an exceptional human being, a great example of wisdom, humanity, willpower, infinite kindness and a generous love that expected nothing in return.
Written from the unique and imaginative
perspective of a dog transformed into a
man, who travels the world, visiting different countries, this work is the author’s way of expressing his views on some of the world’s
sociopolitical systems, exposing their
irrationality and the duplicity of human
beings, while paradoxically continuing to
love them. However, it is not only a political
work, but a deeply philosophical one, in
which the author contmeplates his own
death and muses about the two infinities
above and below.