Becoming Antifragile

Lesson from 'Love, Freedom, Aloneness' by Osho. Osho (1931 -1990) was a spiritual teacher and mystic. He was known for his unconventional and provocative teachings that challenged traditional spirituality and societal norms. Osho emphasized freedom, self-love, awareness, and solitude. - Ways to Support: Substack: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ijmakan.substack.com/subscribe?=⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://becomingantifragile.com/support⁠⁠ Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/BecomingAntifragile⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Shownotes 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - Excerpt from ‘Love, Freedom, Aloneness’ by Osho 03:30 - Who is Osho and what is his main message? 07:45 - What is love? 09:21: - Love and Truth are one; you can’t love God and hate man 12:50 - Love yourself first before loving others 14:35 - Osho’s thinks ‘love yourself’ is superior to ‘know thyself’ 22:00 - Love vs. Lust 26:04 - How can I know love? 33:45 - Love is not an emotion but a verb 38:00 - Ladder of freedom and building your inner castle 43:10 - When you understand love, your life is meditation 44:05 - Challenges

Explore Eckhart Tolle's teachings on the profound power of living in the present. Discover the transformational journey to inner peace through self-awareness and acceptance. Learn how the concept of 'flow' intertwines with embracing the now for true fulfillment. Understand the distinction between intellectual knowledge and genuine spiritual experiences. Finally, dive into the importance of stillness and how it can lead to profound breakthroughs, illustrating that happiness doesn’t reside in the future, but within our current reality.

Lessons from ⁠The Prophet⁠ by Kahlil Gibran. The Prophet is a collection of 26 prose poetry fables that deal with love, children, friendship, freedom, charity, time and death. The Prophet is one of the most translated books. Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and artist. He was born in 1883 in Bsharri, a village in northern Lebanon. He wrote in both Arabic and English, and his works reflect his influences from various spiritual and philosophical traditions. He is best known for his book The Prophet. - Ways to Support: Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/BecomingAntifragile⁠⁠⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ijmakan.substack.com/subscribe?=⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://becomingantifragile.com/support⁠ - Shownotes: 00:00 - On Identity and Pain 05:13 - Excerpt from "The Prophet" 07:48 - Gibran’s influence on culture 11:57 - The Prophet’s synopsis 12:53 - Unify your reason and passion 15:09 - How to prepare for death 16:43 - How to love deeply 20:43 - How to treat your children 24:13 - How to give with joy 31:08 - Embrace both suffering & joy fully 35:13 - How to work 40:53 - Giving thanks for your food 45:53 - How to seek knowledge within yourself 46:13 - Find solitude always 51:13 - The path is made by walking

Lessons from 'Lean Out: A Meditation on the Madness of Modern Life' by Tara Henely, and 'Tribe: On Homecoming' by Sebastian Junger Ways to Support: Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/BecomingAntifragile⁠⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠⁠⁠https://ijmakan.substack.com/subscribe?=⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://becomingantifragile.com/support⁠

Lessons from ‘Symposium’ by Plato Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates, and a teacher of Aristotle. His works laid the foundational stones of Western philosophy and science The "Symposium" is one of Plato's most famous dialogues, set during a banquet attended by a group of notable Athenian men. The dialogue is a series of speeches the participants give, each extolling the nature and virtues of Eros (Love). - Ways to Support: Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/BecomingAntifragile⁠⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠⁠⁠https://ijmakan.substack.com/subscribe?=⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://becomingantifragile.com/support⁠ - Shownotes 00:00 - Introduction 01:45 - Excerpt from ‘Symposium’ by Plato 05:44 - What’s happening in the Symposium 06:50 - Are you not whole until you find your other half? 10:10 - Why Socrates thinks everyone is wrong about love 11:15 - Phaedrus’s notion of self-sacrificial love 13:10 - Different types of love 15:20 - Socrates correcting Agathon on Eros 21:10 - Love is of something that you’re desire 25:18 - Love in on continuum ferrying between the immortal and mortal realm 28:50 - How Diotima initiates Socrates through the ladder of love 42:10 - The Beautiful and Tao 44:00 - The Beautiful makes life meaningful, become a philosopher 47: 15 - Humans seek immortality, true immortality is found in birthing virtues 50:48 - Challenges

Lessons from ‘Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu’ by Lao Tzu. Listen to episode 18 for more context on 'Tao Te Ching' Ways to Support: Patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/BecomingAntifragile⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠⁠https://ijmakan.substack.com/subscribe?=⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠https://becomingantifragile.com/support⁠ Buy the book: CA: https://amzn.to/3VRfS9V USA: https://amzn.to/4bwgO9E Shownotes: 00:00 - Introduction 03:08 - Excerpt from ‘Tao Te Ching’ of Lao Tzu 04:00 - Seek Tao in your life and you’ll find rest 09:00 - What is the meaning of your life? 14:50 - Tao is the Eternal Spring and Source 19:35 - Live in Harmony and generously 23:10 - Stay vigilant 25:35 - The importance of rest, know what is enough 28:22 - Be free of desires 31:45 - The overlapping of Taoism and Atman/Brahman 34:50 - Tao is found wherever you are 37:10 - Challenges

Lessons from ‘The Sufi Path of Annihilation: In the Tradition of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi & Hasan Lutfi Shushud’ by Nevit O. Ergin Ergin is the translator of the complete Divan-i Kebir of Rumi’s opus. He is a Turkish-born surgeon. He was initiated into Itlak Sufism under Sufi master Hasan Lutfi Shushud. ‘The Sufi Path of Annihilation’ examines three main parts of the Sufi path of annihilation through zikr, fasting, and mental suffering. - Ways to Support this podcast: Patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/BecomingAntifragile⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠⁠https://ijmakan.substack.com/subscribe?=⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠https://becomingantifragile.com/support⁠ - Buy the book: CA: https://amzn.to/45IW5Oq USA: https://amzn.to/3WcKkNr - Shownotes: 00:00 - Introduction 00:00 - Excerpt from ‘The Sufi Path of Annihilation’ 09:10 - What is Itlak Sufism, and what is the true and greatest Jihad? 13:40 - Non-dualism is the true state of being, but don’t become a bird without wings 18:33 - The path of annihilation is the essence of all religion 22:22 - The three that leads to annihilation: breath work, fasting, suffering 26:30 - Why anyone can become a Saint 29:25 - The intellectual and experiencer 32:25 - Going to Nothingness and Absence 37:40 - Attaining and experiencing non-dualism, why you shouldn’t belong to religions 43:55 - Is annihilation only for monks? 46:00 - Suffering, death, and remaining unattached to this world 52:30 - The three stages of annihilation 56:00 - Love is the only way towards Absence and immortality

Lessons from “Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences” by Abraham Maslow. Maslow is the American psychologist who developed Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and proposed a theory of psychological well-being based on satisfying fundamental human needs in a specific order, ultimately leading to self-actualization. The article referenced in the episode: 'Beyond Modern Nihilism: The Revival of Symbollism and Beauty in Art' - https://ijmakan.substack.com/p/beyond-modern-nihilism-the-revival?r=763v5 - Ways to Support: Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/BecomingAntifragile⁠ Substack: ⁠https://ijmakan.substack.com/subscribe?=⁠ Website: ⁠https://becomingantifragile.com/support⁠ - Buy the book: CA - https://amzn.to/3RC2NA2 USA - https://amzn.to/4czjDrx - Shownotes: 00:00 - Excerpt from “Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences” by Abraham Maslow 05:50 - Why Maslow thinks we should study peak-experiences 08:10 - What is Peak-experiences? Why Logical Positivism is wrong 14:25 - Mystical experience == peak experiences, the state of B-Cognition 20:50 - Finding meaning, curing nihilism 22:17 - The importance of artists and Humanist scholars for inspiring people to do great things 25:40 - If you’re too materialistic or over religious persons, you can’t have peak-experiences 33:19 - The greatest threat is our valuelessness nihilistic society 35:08 - If there is no beauty, what is there to admire? This creates a bleak society 38:00 - To cross the barrier of science and religion we need good education. Good education addresses the questions of life, meaning, goodness, beauty, ethics, and peak-experiences 44:25 - Aspects of peak-experiences, and attaining new knowledge through it 50:40 - Challenge 52:12 - Announcement

Lessons from ‘Sickness Unto Death’ by Søren Kierkegaard. Søren Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813 - Nov 11, 1855) is the father of existentialism. His work laid the groundwork for later existentialist thinkers. In 'Sickness Unto Death', he argues that your despair arises from your misrelation between the finite and the infinite aspects of ourselves. Despair is not simply an emotion but a true dread beyond dying because you aren't living per your true self. This is worse than sickness unto death. And finally, in the book, he gives his solution to overcoming despair. - Support Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BecomingAntifragile Website: https://becomingantifragile.com/support Substack: https://ijmakan.substack.com/subscribe?= - Buy the book CA - https://amzn.to/3xjjTM8 USA - https://amzn.to/4b38Q7F - Shownotes 00:00 - Excerpt from ‘Sickness unto death’ 04:40 - All suffer from despair 7:35 - Man’s relationship to self 12:55 - Three types of despair for Kierkegaard 15:50 - What is sickness unto death? 19:45 - Harmonize the Infinitude and finitude 24:30 - Don’t be ignorant of your state of mind: the man who lives in a basement 28:14 - Don’t avoid defeating your despair by living a life of distraction 42:00 - The drunkard who loses his legs 43:20 - The role of sin in magnifying your despair 48:27 - Defeat despair by acting out of love and in love 53:35 - Challenge

Lessons from 'Happiness' by Thich Nhat Hanh. In 'Happiness' Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that by being mindful, we can live in the present and find peace. He provides his key principles and practices to help everyone, whether new or experienced, to live mindfully and enjoy life. - Support Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BecomingAntifragile Website: https://becomingantifragile.com/support - Buy the book USA: https://amzn.to/4ecluEa CA: https://amzn.to/3yVVXyX - Shownotes 00:00 - Excerpt from ‘Happiness’ by Thich Nhat Hanh 03:16 - Life of Hanh, becoming a monk, Zen Buddhism 07:44 - Happiness is found in mindfulness 09:14 - Suggestion on how to read ‘Happiness’ 11:50 - Our lives are overscheduled so learn how to rest 17:20 - Only this Present moment is real, Krishnamurti’s sunset story 22:00 - Using Gathas to unite body and mind, and doing walking meditations 27:40 - Facing difficulties by finding refuge within yourself 29:50 - How to listen properly & finding community 33:50 - Solitude is a key component for a thriving community 37:00 - Judge yourself strongly, and others lightly 43:45 - Loving yourself, knowing yourself 46:20 - Challenges