Tag: Human Values

  • From Avidya to Ahimsa: How Ignorance Breeds Violence—and Dharmic Ways to Heal Ego

    From Avidya to Ahimsa: How Ignorance Breeds Violence—and Dharmic Ways to Heal Ego

    Ignorance narrows perspective, heightens ego defensiveness, and increases the risk of violence, but dharmic insights and modern science together offer proven ways to interrupt that cycle. This article maps how cognitive biases, identity threats, stress physiology, and moral disengagement convert ignorance into harm. It then presents convergent guidance from Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism on…

  • Losing Sight, Gaining Insight: A Filmmaker’s Path Through Blindness to Meaning

    Losing Sight, Gaining Insight: A Filmmaker’s Path Through Blindness to Meaning

    This reflective account presents a clear, practical path through vision loss by showing how accessibility tools, mindful pedagogy, and deliberate writing practices preserve creativity and purpose. Readers learn how macular degeneration reshapes daily life in a vision-centric, digital age and why accessible design is essential for inclusion. The narrative integrates dharmic perspectives from Buddhism, Hinduism,…

  • How the Hindu Society Lost Access to its Own Culture

    How the Hindu Society Lost Access to its Own Culture

    This is the first episode in a series featuring an English adaptation of DVG’s 1957 lecture on Samskruti (Culture). DVG offers profound insights into society and culture, exploring facets like human relationships, attitudes toward work, marriage, and self-discipline, reflecting on a bygone era, and contrasting it with contemporary society. His discourse delves into the intrinsic…