Tag: buddhism concepts

• Suffering is a Cookie: Chronicles During the COVID-19 Community Quarantine

  I suffer because I believe that I deserve that cookie. But I also know that eating that cookie comes with consequences.

  Evan Tan

  March 22, 2020

  personal life, philosophy, pop culture, rambling, reflections, vegan

  buddhism concepts, covid-19, covid-19 community quarantine philippines, covid-19 diary, evan tan writer in manila, first noble truth, writer in manila

• Is There Really A Self? (& 10 PM Explorations of Being)

  What if, as Plato said in his allegory of the cave, we only see shadows of reality, and that is because of the frailty that is our humanity?

  Evan Tan

  February 4, 2020

  books, personal life, philosophy, pop culture, reflections

  buddhism concepts, buddhist non-self, evan tan writer in manila, intelligence and consciousness, non-self, the allegory of the cave, the good place series, writer in manila, yuval noah harari homo deus