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The Risk Paradox
We desire comfort, security, and safety.
But nothing we desire can be obtained without risk.
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Zen & Paradoxes
Being Zen is all about learning to live with ambiguity and paradoxes. Life is too complex to be understood using reason. The truth lies beyond words. But ...
What if we didn’t need an explanation for everything?
Zen Kōans, riddles that makes no sense, serve ...
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The Time Paradox
What we want changes over time.
But our deepest desires - to be loved, to be validated - never change.
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The Intensity Paradox
The more intensely you desire something, the harder it seems to attain.
If you don’t desire something with enough intensity, you never do what's required to attain it.
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The Pain Paradox
Desire creates pain in our lives.
But living a life void of desire is equally, if not more, painful.
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Risk Compensation
Risk protection is normally done to minimize the harm a particular activity can do to us. There are various things we do to reduce our risk, to make ourselves safer.
Behaviour scientists point out that taking measures to reduce the harm we can do to ourselves, can actually make us take mo...
The Paradox Of Boredom
Boredom isn’t about not having something fun to do, but about not wanting to do the activities which are at one’s disposal.
Boredom by itself isn’t a desire, but a desire for a desire to arise. Man cannot sit quietly in a room and do nothing, and that inab...
Risk awkward conversations
We are apt to choose the path of safety instead of speaking about issues that worry us. We do not address the problems and fail to influence a change or produce results.
Risk the difficult conversations and speak up.
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