It’s Bhaskar!

Well, I am not a psychologist, a monk, or a philosopher by training. I’m just an engineering graduate, who spend years being lost in the ‘beautiful lie’ until I lifted the veil and realized my life was a reel.

That is why this site exists. Somewhere along the way, I found Buddha’s philosophy as the cushion to my chaotic head. But what struck me the most was the great Buddhist monk, Nagarjuna: his idea that the self isn’t a fixed, solid thing sitting behind our thoughts, it’s more like a process, arising in relation to everything around it. He called it ‘Sunyata’ or emptiness.

Not empty in the sense of hollow or sad, but empty in the sense of not fixed. So, it’s not stuck, either.

The Origin of Empty Self

‘The Empty Self’ is where I write about that idea, and what it actually means for ordinary life, anxiety, identity, habits, the stories we tell ourselves about who we are.

I try to treat these questions the way I’d treat any hard problem: break it down, test it against real experience, keep what holds up, and drop what doesn’t.

I don’t have a psychology degree, and I’m not offering therapy or clinical advice. What I do have is thought and clarity, and genuine curiosity about why we suffer the way we do and how much of it might loose once we shed this ‘fixed identity’.

If that sounds like your kind of thinking too, welcome. Let’s figure out who is the empty self in the journey of life!

Why No Personal Photo

Ahhh…. I am kind of an awkward introvert. So, you would have to settle with this silhouette for now. Rest assured, I am a genuine person, not an AI (who is the empty self? It’s a bot with human personality 🙂

Get in Touch!

If you wish to get in touch or resolve your queries, you can click on the ‘Contact’ button. I’ll try to reach out as soon as possible.