CWIL Readings
Picture Credit: Akshay Sriram, PGDM, 2021.
October 28, 2021
Article Published In : brainpickings
The Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: Marcus Aurelius on the Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength
“What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on.”
October 20, 2021
Article Published In : Lion’s Roar- Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time
The Three Minds of Zen
Zen teaches that we should maintain “a joyful mind, an elder’s mind, and a great mind.” According to Jisho Sara Siebert, they’re never far away.
October 12, 2021
Article Published In : SPEAKINGTREE.IN
Humility Opens The Door To Inner Strength
Humility treads the fine line between arrogance and self-deprecation. Humility, modesty and down-to-earth are synonyms deriving from the Latin, ‘humus’, translatable as ‘grounded or from the earth’. So, what makes someone humble? Are the humble meek or psychologically weak?
October 12, 2021
Article Published In : Harvard Business Review
Managers: Compassion and Accountability Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
Now that restrictions are lifting in many parts of the world, some managers are wondering how to continue to balance compassion for the people on their team and accountability for getting work done. The good news is, experts say that it’s possible to have both. Rather than thinking of it as a trade-off between compassion and accountability, think about how you can combine the two. Here are eight steps managers can take to meet goals while also being caring.
October 12, 2021
Article Published In : PSYCHE
Meditation is like mountaineering: approach it with care
The links between meditation and mountaineering aren’t limited to surface aspects of goals, methods and popular appeal. One key similarity concerns the importance of teachers or guides.
October 12, 2021
Article Published In : PSYCHE
The ‘melancholic joy’ of living in our brutal, beautiful world
The totality of evidence elicits in us something like ‘melancholic joy’: a grateful and uninhibited joy for the goodness of being, but one tinged by sadness at the pervasiveness of evil and melancholy because it all comes to an end.
October 12, 2021
Article Published In : Mindful
Why Your Out-Breath is Connected to Your Well-Being
Toward the end of a yoga class or during a guided meditation, it’s likely you’ve heard some version of: “Let’s take a few slow, deep breaths, allowing the body to relax as you gently exhale.” These are simple instructions intended to slow down your heart rate. But what you may not realize is that these slow, deep breaths—and exhalations, in particular—are stimulating your vagus nerve, which signals to the body that it is in a state of calm. It can now rest and digest, tend and befriend.
October 12, 2021
Article Published In : Emerge
‘We are suffering from a Wisdom Famine in the West.’
John Vervaeke, professor of cognitive science at the University of Toronto, is the prophet of the "meaning crisis." The crisis of wisdom, he holds, is the defining crisis of our times. To overcome it, we must learn to steal the culture.
September 23, 2021
Article Published In : Mind & Life Institute
6 Days, 28 Speakers, 1 Powerful Message: The Climate Crisis, It’s a Relationship Problem
The current climate change crisis is not just caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases… but by breakdowns in kinship relationships,” said Indigenous scholar Kyle Whyte, pointing to the moral bond between people, plants, animals, and habitats.
September 23, 2021
Article Published In : Mind & Life Institute
Evolution of the Heart
Mind & Life honored the Dalai Lama’s birthday with the release of “Evolution of the Heart.” The 37-minute film chronicles conversations between the Dalai Lama, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, and social scientist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela.
