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Wangchuk’s close associate, Gitanjali Wangchuk, is, we are told, a devotee of Sri Aurobindo. In her parting shot, she is said to have observed that it is Gen Z that has shown what it means for India to be a Viswaguru and that they have lived the Sanatana Dharma. Well, one needs to make a distinction between the actual Gen Z and the counterfeit Gen Z. That is a distinction most have not made or have refused to make. Let me also put on record here that Sri Aurobindo was always against any kind of fasting, whether for political or spiritual objectives. His writings, conversations and talks make that amply clear to anyone who has cared to read them seriously...
Any genuine reader or follower of Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda or Mahatma Gandhi would agree that any attempt to cultivate national greatness while standing only on the stilts of rights, devoid of a binding sense of duty—kartavya—is bound to collapse. By - Anirban Ganguly
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Specifically: self-discipline is all about delaying gratification – focusing on a future benefit that makes it worth avoiding the thing that seems appealing in the present. Whereas mindfulness – at least in its modern forms, which have more historic precedent than is sometimes supposed – is all about a focus on the present moment, letting the past and the future fall away. Aren’t these two supposed virtues then in contradiction with each other: the one telling you to focus on the future over the present, the other telling you to focus on the present over the future?
https://loveofallwisdom.com/blog/2026/08/the-present-moment-has-no-marshmallow/
Habermas was one of the few philosophers to earn respect from both the analytic and “continental” sides of the philosophical tradition, engaging in reciprocated debate with both John Rawls and Jacques Derrida. We might even say that his death marks the end of the great era of German philosophy, an era that begins with Immanuel Kant – for while through his early life there were other major German figures leaving an impact on philosophy, he was really the last remaining German philosopher to have made such a significant mark. I think the only later philosopher of arguably comparable stature who is carrying on the German philosophical tradition is Slavoj Žižek – who is not himself German but Slovenian.
https://loveofallwisdom.com/blog/2026/03/habermas-and-a-road-not-taken/
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