New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
The central concept of our existence - not understood until now.
I walk the streets of Western thought. They have been well-fortified since Roman times, connecting centers of power and establishing a unique logic of knowledge exchange. They connect points, their nodes are central, the path itself is burdensome, arduous. A culture of monuments developed on these streets, leading to accumulations of knowledge [...]
I'm back in Europe for a short time, and I see a busyness, an energy of constant doing. Working, discussing, tidying up, running errands, fulfilling obligations, organizing, optimizing, presenting, questioning, exchanging. Something is constantly being done. Doing something seems important, not doing anything seems unproductive and requires justification. Not being productive [...]
Movement Instead of Rootedness I recently asked myself if I truly want to be grounded. Am I a tree, striking
Ramana, one of India's great enlightened beings, lived in Tiruvannamalai. At the core of his teachings is the concept of the Self: its emptiness and at the same time immeasurable vastness. His teachings are simple; he does not follow a long tradition of interpretations. He was a simple man who meditated on the mountain and held satsangs. As a contemporary of Aurobindo, people [...]
First encounters with ragas As a teenager, I listened to ragas for hours. I didn't know anything about them. I looked them up a little: Microtonality, meditation, tone sequence. That was all I understood. But it was the most profound musical experience - a meditation on music. To this day, ragas lead me into my inner self or into deep states of insight, which are not rational [...]
Contemporary art is obsessed with the „next step“. The avant-garde, the unprecedented, the new and unique. But in the hunt for the new, we lose sight of something essential: artistic practice itself. Artistic practice is not just about crossing boundaries. It is one of those things that make art [...]
An apple, a strawberry, a melon or a passion fruit, a banana or plum, a tomato or cucumber, a bean or grain, a coconut, and a pomegranate. Fruits want to be eaten, they want to bring pleasure, nourish, and at times, intoxicate. They shimmer and ferment, decay and exude fragrances, they catch the eye, they captivate the senses, [...]
Zen is about finding the true self. But this doesn't exist, and that's the mystery of our existence. In a world of representations, cognitive dissonances, and alternative facts, it is good to sink into the essence of existence, into a non-dual being. Thinking helps only very limitedly, because thinking is [...]
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