I cut my night meditation a little short to switch to writing meditation. Suddenly, some things became clear to me. The necessity of aligning one's own body in meditation, finding the right position, which for me means following the movements, the tensing and relaxing of muscles, bones, and the spine. Then the breath to [...]
My morning meditation is becoming a bit of a routine, although one can hardly say that after a handful of times. It's more of a stretch, a path, or an exploration. Like hiking in the mountains: with the summit in view, it's hiking through the paths, along the ridges, through the valleys and rivers, past the rock faces, [...]
I woke up from a nightmare at 4am. I was talking to Will in Apt about a strange irritation in my perception of time. I described how time was falling into fragments and some were simply missing. It was a matter of seconds or minutes, and while I tried to immerse myself in time to describe it better, [...]
Connection For the last two years, I've been quite deeply immersed in the Upanishads, practiced some yoga, and delved a little into the system of yoga. I've dived into my own body, my own senses, my own consciousness. I've seen that there are a large number of levels and that there is no reason whatsoever that [...]
During the Chola empire, the layout of Shiva temples became highly formalized. Based on the Agamas and Shastras, the temple was fully developed into a place in space, time, and consciousness where the microcosm and macrocosm mirror each other. The study of the Irumbai temple as a smaller temple that follows the strict rules of temple construction, and as [...]
Sometimes meditation is very simple and natural. I sit down, go into my body, become aware of my sensory apparatus and how my consciousness and mind deal with it, bring everything to a rest and higher consciousness manifests itself, a different kind of knowledge, space and time, a different world of experience… But sometimes it is also difficult, and then […]