Philosophies for Life

Why You Feel Guilty When You Rest - The Logic of Total Work. In today’s Philosophies For Life, we are going to be taking a look at exactly why you feel guilty when you rest, and how to reclaim your right to simply exist.
It is Sunday afternoon. Your chores are done. Your laundry is folded. The inbox is—miraculously—empty. You finally have permission to relax. But... you can't. Instead of peace, you feel a phantom vibration in your pocket. A tightening in your chest. A voice in the back of your head starts whispering: "You should be doing something. You are wasting time. You are falling behind." This has a name: 'Leisure Sickness.' It is when you actually feel sick the moment you stop working." Now, you might tell yourself: "I’m just Type A" or "It’s just my personality." Indeed, we use these labels to convince ourselves that this anxiety is a genetic quirk—that we were simply born this way.
But that is a lie. You were not born unable to sit still. You were trained to be unable to sit still. You are the victim of a specific, invisible philosophical architecture designed to make you impossible to satisfy. You have been infected by what the German philosopher Josef Pieper, in his famous book Leisure: The Basis of Culture, called "The Logic of Total Work."
It is the belief that a human being is nothing more than a worker, and that any moment not spent producing value is a moment wasted.
Topics covered - 
Introduction - 00:00 - 01:47 
Act I: The Internalized Panopticon - 01:47 - 06:09 
Act II: The Addiction to Cortisol - 06:09 - 08:29
Act III: The Fear of Being Nobody - 08:29 - 11:54
Act IV: The Theft of Leisure - 11:54 - 14:39 
Act V: The Great Refusal - 14:39 - 20:09 
Act VI: The Right to Be Useless - 20:09 - 21:21 
I hope you enjoyed listening to this audio - Why You Feel Guilty When You Rest and hope you reclaim your right to simply exist.

What If You Died Today? (And Got A Second Chance)
If the Angel of Death appeared tonight and asked "Why do you want to live?", what would you say?
Most of us live as if we have infinite time. We stay in jobs we hate, we hide our true feelings, and we wait for "someday" to start living. In this video, we follow the story of Adam - a man who felt dead inside until he met Death face-to-face. He was given a second chance, but it came with one terrifying condition: His life would grow when he acted honestly, and shrink when he lied to himself.
Through Adam’s journey, we explore powerful ideas from - 
01.Viktor Frankl -  Logotherpy
02. Alfred Adler -  Individual Psychology
03. Albert Camus - Absurdism
04. Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism
05. The Buddha - Buddhism
06. Marcus Aurelius - Stoicism
07. Ubuntu
08. Understanding death
I hope you enjoyed listening to this video.

In this podcast we will be talking about 5 buddhist ways of dealing with difficult people from the wisdom of  Buddha. Gautama Buddha was a philosopher, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who is credited as the founder of Buddhism.
So with that in mind, here are 5 buddhist ways of dealing with difficult people from Gautama Buddha -
01. Acknowledge There Are difficult People Around You
02. Practice Restraint
03. Practice Clearing Your Mind
04. Practice Compassion
05. Practice Right Speech
I hope you enjoyed watching the video and hope these 5 buddhist ways of dealing with difficult people from Gautama Buddha will add value to your life.
The Buddha was a philosopher, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who is credited as the founder of Buddhism. He was born as Siddhartha Gautama in India in 566 BC into an aristocratic family and when he was twenty-nine years old, he left the comforts of his home to seek the meaning of the suffering he saw around him. 
After six years of arduous yogic training, he abandoned the way of self-mortification and instead sat in mindful meditation beneath a bodhi tree. On the full moon of May, with the rising of the morning star, Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha, the awakened one. The Buddha wandered the plains of northeastern India for 45 years more, teaching the path or Dharma he had realized in that moment. Around him developed a community of people, drawn from every tribe and caste, devoted to practicing this path.
Nowadays, he is worshiped by most Buddhist schools as the enlightened one who has escaped the cycle of birth and rebirth, transcending Karma. Their main teachings focus on their insight into duhkha meaning “suffering” and into Nirvana, which means the end of suffering.

In this audio we will be talking about 4 ways to unlock your inner freedom from the philosophy of Epictetus. Epictetus was one of the most influential teachers of the later years of the school of Stoicism. 

So with that in mind, here are 4 ways to unlock your inner freedom from the wisdom of Epictetus -
01. Free your mind
02. Train your habits
03. Control your desires
04. Love your Fate
We hope you enjoyed listening to this podcast and hope this video will help you to unlock your inner freedom. 

Epictetus was a Greek/Roman philosopher of the Hellenistic period. He managed to overcome huge obstacles in developing from a crippled Roman slave to become one of the most popular and sought after philosophers of his time. Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. Even though it is over 2000 years old, more and more people are discovering how Stoicism is not only relevant to modern times, but can be applied in very simple, yet strong ways.

In this audio we will be talking about how to be in flow with your life from the wisdom of Miyamoto Musashi. Miyamoto Musashi is considered to be the greatest swordsman ever in the history of Japan, in large part due to his almost surreal discipline. 

So here are 5 ways to be in flow with your life from Miyamoto Musashi - 
01. Accept death and take risks
02. Train intensively
03. Cultivate your intuition
04. Accept the Way of Nature
05. Embrace simplicity
I hope you enjoyed listening to this podcast and hope these insights form Miyamoto Musashi help you to be in flow with your life.. 

A samurai at first, and then a Ronin, Miyamoto Musashi is considered to be the greatest swordsman ever in the history of Japan, in large part due to his almost surreal discipline. Indeed It is being said that he fought 60 duels, and never lost one. He fought for the first time when he was 13 against an experienced Samurai, and came out victorious. He took down the greatest swordsman at that time, one by one, until the throne was his, and his alone. However, Miyamoto was more than that. Not only was he a master of his craft, but he was also an artist, a cerebral philosopher and a buddhist. He sought meaning, wrote war and philosophy books, and his work became a blueprint for people who want to live a disciplined life. A week before he died in 1645, Miyamoto Musashi wrote 21 principles called “Dokkodo '' by which he expresses a stringent, honest, and ascetic or strongly self-disciplined view of life.