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Why unselfishness?

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Swami Vivekananda, in Karma Yoga, enjoins us to “work for work’s sake” (source). He writes:
“There are some who are really the salt of the earth in every country and who work for work’s sake, who do not care for name, or fame, or even to go to heaven. They work just because good will come of [...]

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The Trouble With the Ideal of Unselfishness

Monday, January 18, 2010

Though I can’t seem to find the post now, I remember mentioning my dilemma with the means by which we struggle to achieve perfection in an earlier post. Essentially, there seems to be a conflict between the most efficient way to achieve perfection and the morally appealing way to go about it. In question form, [...]

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