https://eastwestmindset.com/Where East and West meet on the same concept.en-usWed, 29 Jul 2026 21:18:48 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/eigenwijsheid-jing-two-roads-to-an-original-voice/https://eastwestmindset.com/eigenwijsheid-jing-two-roads-to-an-original-voice/The Dutch prize eigenwijsheid, the nerve to hold your own view. Confucian jing asks the student to follow first. Two cultures, two routes to originality.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:18:48 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/silence-dadirri-aboriginal-australia-west/https://eastwestmindset.com/silence-dadirri-aboriginal-australia-west/Aboriginal Australia treats silence as a language; the modern West sells us ways to fill it, dadirri asks which of the two is actually listening.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:07:46 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/friluftsliv-norwegian-nature-philosophy/https://eastwestmindset.com/friluftsliv-norwegian-nature-philosophy/Friluftsliv is not a hobby but a way of living outdoors, and set beside Japanese Zen it reveals two very different ways of belonging to nature.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:41:27 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/stranger-at-the-door-xenia-steppe-hospitality/https://eastwestmindset.com/stranger-at-the-door-xenia-steppe-hospitality/A ten-year war began when one guest broke a sacred rule, and both Greece and the steppe decided the stranger at your door might be a god.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:00:46 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/mentor-etymology-homer-odyssey/https://eastwestmindset.com/mentor-etymology-homer-odyssey/The word mentor comes from a character in Homer's Odyssey who barely speaks, and from a Proto-Indo-European root that also gave us dementia.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:46:14 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/gratitude-maori-hau-seneca-stoicism/https://eastwestmindset.com/gratitude-maori-hau-seneca-stoicism/Two traditions read gratitude in opposite directions: the Maori hau binds giver and receiver, while Seneca turns thanks inward toward the soul.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/responsibility-gap-who-is-liable-when-ai-causes-harm/https://eastwestmindset.com/responsibility-gap-who-is-liable-when-ai-causes-harm/From Luther's 1546 donkey-and-boat case to the Tesla verdict: agency is not discovered but assigned, and unassigned, it falls to the weakest link.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/greek-thaumazein-and-sufi-hayrah-two-kinds-of-wonder/https://eastwestmindset.com/greek-thaumazein-and-sufi-hayrah-two-kinds-of-wonder/Greek philosophy treats wonder as a door you walk through toward an answer. Sufi Islam treats it as the place you finally arrive and stay.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/dert-shared-trouble-turkish-anatolian-nordic/https://eastwestmindset.com/dert-shared-trouble-turkish-anatolian-nordic/Why Anatolia pours out its troubles to a neighbour while the Nordic countries hand them to the state, and what each model builds and quietly costs.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/what-artificial-intelligence-is-and-is-not/https://eastwestmindset.com/what-artificial-intelligence-is-and-is-not/From Descartes to Buddhist anatta: why the argument about artificial intelligence is really an argument about what a human being is.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/naming-a-revolution-from-inside-it/https://eastwestmindset.com/naming-a-revolution-from-inside-it/The METR study, Paul David's dynamo paradox and the Collingridge dilemma show why we cannot measure a technological revolution from inside it.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/can-land-be-owned-lakota-and-the-western-idea-of-property/https://eastwestmindset.com/can-land-be-owned-lakota-and-the-western-idea-of-property/The Lakota have refused over a billion dollars for the Black Hills. What they are really refusing is the idea that land can carry a price at all.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/hero-achilles-kleos-lakota-counting-coup/https://eastwestmindset.com/hero-achilles-kleos-lakota-counting-coup/Why did one warrior die for eternal fame while another counted it braver to touch his enemy and return home alive? Two ideas of courage, side by side.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/melancholy-sorrow-ottoman-burton/https://eastwestmindset.com/melancholy-sorrow-ottoman-burton/How two cultures met the same sorrow: Ottoman poets enthroned sorrow as beauty while Robert Burton's England fought melancholy as a disease to cure.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/fate-tawakkul-amor-fati-islam-stoicism/https://eastwestmindset.com/fate-tawakkul-amor-fati-islam-stoicism/Two ancient traditions, Islamic tawakkul and Stoic amor fati, arrived at the same answer about fate from opposite directions. Here's what that reveals.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/potlatch-vs-the-gift-why-generosity-holds-power/https://eastwestmindset.com/potlatch-vs-the-gift-why-generosity-holds-power/Canada outlawed a ceremony of giving for 66 years. What can the potlatch and Marcel Mauss reveal about the hidden power inside every gift?Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/beauty-wabi-sabi-kalos-kagathos/https://eastwestmindset.com/beauty-wabi-sabi-kalos-kagathos/From Japanese wabi-sabi to ancient Greek kalos kagathos, three traditions reveal that beauty is never just what it appears to be.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:22:45 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/dragon-east-west-mythology/https://eastwestmindset.com/dragon-east-west-mythology/Confucius called Laozi a dragon as praise; Saint George drove a lance through one, discover why one creature split East and West so completely.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:53:10 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/madness-sufi-enlightenment-reason/https://eastwestmindset.com/madness-sufi-enlightenment-reason/In Sufi tradition, the mystic madman was closest to God. The Enlightenment locked him in Bedlam for a penny a look. An East-West comparison on madness and reason.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:29:11 GMThttps://eastwestmindset.com/sacred-flame-stolen-fire/https://eastwestmindset.com/sacred-flame-stolen-fire/Two civilizations, one flame. Zoroastrian Persia guarded fire as a divine signature; ancient Greece told it as a theft with an eternal price.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:14:54 GMT