As I begin writing the first post of my blog, I am delighted to make use of WordPress as part of philosophical exploration. I began such a process just under three decades ago back in the eighties, through a booklet.
To be or not to be that is no longer the question: the question is how to be.
There is always the choice of relating to the world. In a way, we all have our world view and so relate to it as we think fit. Ambiguously, we all have a choice. A choice indeed often marred by precisely how we deem it fit to live. Then there is the question of authenticity which in a way calls us to be in a certain way, at least not to ignore certain guidelines. The question arising out of this equation is: what is authenticity? There is also an epistemological question of: how do we know? Hence the process of knowledge remains blurred…
In regards to relaxation, we may say there is a technique at Mantra For Be-ing which we have adopted – a view in that living is about searching from the inner where happiness, nay peace resides! Any similar search or movement on towards the exterior will have its own failure in that we are looking at solidity within a fluid state. One cannot find happiness in the exterior, whilst that peace may always beget within. The process moves us towards a form where we take things within our stride and by doing so, we are in rapport with life. In the coaching realm, the idea of how to be is based in the search for the self to be that one should be based on one’s own vision without compromise or interference. In a way, it is to get rid of interference so that there is a swift movement towards be-ing what we really want to be…