What is our Second Mind perceiving?
Q. What is our Second Mind perceiving? Plato says we are only viewing shadows on the cave wall, not reality. A. "Reality" depends on the...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Aug 29, 2020
- 5 min
Deconstructing "mental health" & "mental illness"
Opening points We are deconstructing the idea of "mental health" and "mental illness". We are not negating, minimizing, or romanticizing...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Aug 29, 2020
- 1 min
Are we interpreting a world of form and matter or are we creating it?
To answer this question comprehensively, one has to ask - which "we" are we talking about? This is the crux of the issue. The identity...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Aug 24, 2020
- 1 min
Q. What changes would occur if a certain percentage of people have no boundaries?
Q. What changes would occur if our culture (or world) achieves a certain percentage of people with no boundaries to individual...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Aug 24, 2020
- 1 min
Q. Does past life karma really make one suffer in this life?
Q. Is past life karma is true? How about small babies suffering of hunger? Does past life karma really make one suffer in this life? A....
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Aug 24, 2020
- 1 min
Q. Do you have any advice on how to teach this to young children?
Q. Do you have any advice on how to teach this to young children, when I, myself, am just starting on this journey to self knowledge? In...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Aug 12, 2020
- 3 min
The origin of the Three Minds
The main framework I use to explain the relationship between the individual and the world, and also to show the way forward for...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- May 15, 2020
- 3 min
Free Will, Destiny, and Karma
Q. Do you think things happen to us for a reason (pre-destined) or is it based on karmic events? A. This universe is a participatory...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- May 14, 2020
- 1 min
I am as I am
If reality could be personified, what might it say? Maybe something like this… I am the well of the universe, the abode of the mind. I am...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Dec 1, 2019
- 1 min
Consciousness, the universe, and fundamental reality
A video from the recent Sages & Scientists symposium facebook.com/watch/?v=442546999779311
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Oct 21, 2019
- 4 min
How can i enjoy life if this is all an illusion?
Q. How can one enjoy and indulge in society, make commitments and make decision, with something that brings short term flashes of...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Oct 5, 2019
- 3 min
When does self-effulgence become apparent?
Q. In the context of Third mind, I have a question--Consciousness is said to be self effulgent (swayam prakasa). So, I have been...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Sep 13, 2019
- 2 min
Intelligence is prior to education
Once upon a time, our society used to believe that intelligence could be measured by taking specific tests. Eventually, we realized that...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Jun 30, 2019
- 4 min
Sex is a gateway
Some say that all of philosophy is a way of coming to terms with death. It’s more than that. It’s also a way of coming to terms with sex....
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Oct 2, 2017
- 4 min
What is enlightenment?
According to the NIH, about 20 million adults in the United States alone meditate. Millions more do yoga. Meditation and yoga are now...
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Anoop Kumar, MD
- Jul 25, 2017
- 4 min
The 3 Stages of Meditation
As I was scrolling through my Twitter feed after searching for #meditation, I noticed something. There is a lot of confusing information...
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