A library of practices
How to practise, 24 traditions, 8 contexts of life.
Every contemplative tradition on humanconcepts.in, mapped to the eight contexts of an ordinary day. Five minutes between meetings, the slow weight of bedtime, the small ritual you might share with someone you love. Same teachings, eight different shapes, so the tradition can meet you where you actually are.
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Japan · 生き甲斐
Ikigai
The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
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Modern · atomic
Atomic Habits
Tiny changes. Remarkable results.
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Modern · ⊘
Dopamine Detox
Restore your brain's baseline. Earn back joy.
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Greece · Στωϊκισμός
Stoicism
A 2000-year-old operating system for hard days.
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Modern · $
Financial Freedom
Money buys time. Time is what wealth actually is.
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India · धर्म
Dharma
The right thing to do, in your particular life, right now.
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Modern · 長寿
Longevity
You will probably die. The next forty years of habits decide when, and how.
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India · गीता
The Bhagavad Gita
A practical wisdom guide, Krishna's answer to Arjuna's paralysis, made livable for now.
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Modern · 流れ
Flow State
The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing, and being more yourself than ever, at the same time.
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Modern · 48
The 48 Laws of Power
A literacy of power, read it to recognise the game whether you want to play it or not.
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Denmark · hygge
Hygge
The Danish art of cozy contentment, warmth, presence, and finding enough in small things.
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Modern · 縁
Relationships
The biggest single predictor of how long, and how happily, you will live.
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Japan · 侘寂
Wabi-Sabi
The beauty of imperfect, impermanent, incomplete things.
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China · 道
The Tao
The way of effortless action, when to stop pushing, when to begin.
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Modern · NO
The Power of No
Saying no, setting boundaries, and ending the silent losses of people-pleasing.
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Universal · 勇
Fear
Almost every adult is constrained by two or three fears they have never written down. This page is the writing-down.
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Tibet · གཏོང་ལེན
Tonglen
The Tibetan practice of breathing in suffering, and breathing out relief, and the wider mind-training that grew around it.
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Finland · sisu
Sisu
The Finnish word for the strength that shows up only when everything is gone.
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Southern Africa · ubuntu
Ubuntu
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. A person is a person through other people. The Southern African answer to the Western question.
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Persia · عشق
Sufism
The Persian path of the heart, where the lover finds the Beloved by losing the self.
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Hawaii · Hoʻoponopono
Hoʻoponopono
The Hawaiian art of cleaning memory, four phrases that repair what is broken inside.
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Ancient Egypt · 𓐙𓆄𓏏𓂝
Maat
The 5,000-year-old Egyptian principle of truth, order, balance, and the 42 Negative Confessions the heart was weighed against.
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Modern · 鉄
Mental Toughness
Become the forged version of yourself. The 40% Rule. The Accountability Mirror. The Cookie Jar. The Suck Index. The Box.
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Modern · 燃尽
Burnout
Recovery from the modern plague, the WHO-recognised condition, the clinical instrument that diagnoses it, and the protocols that actually work.
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Browse by context of life
Pick the situation you actually live in. We will show you how every tradition meets you there.
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In five minutes
when you only have a coffee break to spare
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As a daily practice
a repeatable shape for tomorrow, and the day after that
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As a beginner
if you have never tried this tradition before
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When anxious
when the chest tightens and the thoughts will not slow
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In the morning
before the day takes a single thing from you
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Before bed
to release the day before sleep takes it
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At work
between meetings, without anyone seeing
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With others
as a small ritual you share with someone you love
Each tradition is written eight times, once for each of these contexts. So you can search for "how to practise stoicism in five minutes" or "how to practise hygge before bed" and land where the answer already is.