In the West, we often seek truth by arguing it out, debating, defining, and dissecting.

But Eastern philosophy begins with stillness.

It doesn’t rush toward answers.

It asks us to become the question.

On “Eastern Philosophy Wednesday,” we’ll turn our attention eastward: to the meditations of the Upanishads, the paradoxes of the Dao, the Eightfold Path of the Buddha, the poetic wisdom of Laozi, and the ethical foundations of Confucius.

But we won’t stop with India and China…

We’ll also touch the sands of ancient Egypt, the royal courts of Mesopotamia, and the early seeds of African and Indigenous wisdom that shaped the spiritual DNA of the East…and West too.

In this series, we’ll explore:

• The nature of the self: Is there one? And what does it mean to let go of ego?
• The illusion of separateness and the truth of interconnectedness
• The cyclical understanding of time and the value of surrender
• How silence, breath, and being are not escapes, but doorways to truth
• The profound overlap between Eastern philosophy and modern physics, cosmology, and psychology

Where Western thinkers often asked, “What is truth?”, the East asked, “Who is the one seeking?”

This category will not be about religion in the institutional sense, though many of these teachings appear in religious texts.

Instead, we’ll look at the philosophical core beneath the rituals, symbolism, and myths: the contemplative, grounded wisdom that has guided seekers for millennia.

We’ll also hold space for the feminine voice in Eastern thought, so often tied to intuition, nature, and the relational self. And we’ll ask what the East has to offer our modern, overworked, disconnected world.

Because in a culture obsessed with achievement and noise, stillness might be the most radical philosophy of all.