The 40 Hour Work Week & More: How Culture Has Made Us “Hungry Ghosts”
Consumerism is Heavily Nurtured by Corporations
Here in the West, a lifestyle of unnecessary spending has been deliberately cultivated and nurtured in the publ...
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Andrew Barker
How Humanity Has Enslaved Itself
Most people won’t believe they are enslaved, though some believe they are enslaved by the ruling elite. But when we look deeper into this predicament, we may be...
The Hypocrisy Of The Legalization Of Alcohol
Alcohol
When it comes to substance use and abuse, our society is built upon a bedrock of hypocrisy. Ours is a society which demonizes psychedelics and celebrat...
Has Spirituality Become Another Ego Identity?
Spirituality in the West has been severely distorted; being a marketplace of trinkets, self-help gurus, healers, a huge variety of spiritual practices, substanc...
True Beauty Isn’t Found Through Makeup
If one day every woman woke up and was happy with her self, the cosmetic industry would go out of business.
Not just women, but men too. Why do we obsess over ...
Does Mental Illness Truly Exist As Western Medicine Has Us Believing?
Is mental illness real as we now define it today? Identification as the mind certainly is and this is the actual problem that we are faced with that is only jus...
One Buddha Teaching That Will Tell You More About Yourself Than Anything Else
No-Self
In Buddhism one of the ‘Three Characteristics’ is No-Self (the other two are impermanence and suffering which are closely associated with this). This r...
Who Do We Blame For The World’s Problems? No One, It Turns Out
Blaming is Futile
So, just who do we blame for the state of the world? Who can we blame for global terrorism, pollution, human rights atrocities, destruction o...
How A Famous Dance Show Reminds Us That Judgment Is Simply An Illusion
When we judge someone or even ourselves, we make the mistake in believing that this evaluation is the truth, and that this person (or our self) is truly the jud...
Andrew Barker
I did stuff in the past, and live here on Earth. Please doubt everything I say with healthy skepticism, and find out for yourself whether there is truth in any of it. See past the words and concepts, and inquire for yourself whether we are both pointing at the same moon. If these questions or lines of inquiry are something you ponder, lets consider this a friendly dialogue between two people sitting in a park. Let the words be a dance of ideas and contemplation, never foregone conclusions or absolutes. With Love.
