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 think about Deleuze, the movement of becoming. To extinguish the sound of the stream, I must become the sound; to enter the stream, I become part of it. When I linger in the forest, I take part in the silence and the chirping, the rustling of the leaves. I become one with nature. [...]
A koan, then. I'd heard of them before, those mysterious Zen riddles that are meant to lead the mind out of the purely rational and open up new forms of insight. I decided not to read much about them nor to ask others about them. I wanted to get one from a Zen master. While Doksan asked me a […]
I am in a sesshin, a 2.5-day short form of intensive Zen meditation. Thoughts and images about artificial general intelligence (AGI), which we are currently creating, keep coming to me. More and more people from the humanities, psychology, or team organization fields are expressing admiration, surprise, and anxiety regarding AGI's capabilities. It seems that [...]
Form is empty. It has a shape, but no substance; it is neither matter nor energy. Form is consciousness - seeing something as something produces form. However, form is also functional: substance, matter and energy interact according to laws. As part of consciousness, they interact in form. Form is emptiness. Form is consciousness. Consciousness [...]
Bodhi Zendo I had ordered a book to take with me to Bodhi Zendo: "Zen in the Art of Ink Painting" by Katharina Shepherd-Kobel. It is a beautiful book, it speaks to me and feeds my longing to learn ink painting and to deepen my meditation. When I got involved in Zen meditation 3.5 years ago, the act of [...]
Ever since I first heard about shadow work decades ago, I've wondered what exactly it is. I always thought of deep abysses in the soul, traumas, taboos, secrets that one hasn't shared with anyone because it's too shameful to talk about. I thought shadows are what we hide from ourselves and...
Art Before Theory (short summary) Christoph Klütsch This lecture is the final one in my winter series. I have given six lectures so far, and I have been challenging myself throughout. Today, I am taking on my biggest challenge yet. I have been exploring topics that interest me—topics that represent a collision between Western art [...]
The spider brings forth its own web. This image from the Upanishad invites deep meditation on how nature brings out a thread that it forms into a complex symmetry. Looking at the spider, the thread, and the web-its function and the source of the complex pattern-we have an image that invites deep speculation about mantra, [...]
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