Gesterday I followed something in my mind that I find difficult to describe. In everyday language, I would perhaps say that I followed my intuition. But it's a bit more complex than that. I went to Tiruvannamalai again. It was the last day of the Karthigai Deepam Brahmotsavam festival. So on December 6, 2022, a fire was lit on this mountain [...]
Intermiscence - Kena Upanishad
GI have just returned from a devotional meditation. It is the anniversary of Sri Aurobindo. He left his body 72 years ago, as they say here. I have been thinking and talking a lot about his commentaries on the Kena Upanishad for the last few days. I came across the word 'intermiscence'. It is almost only used by Aurobindo. [...]
Jumping fish
AI started meditating as a teenager or student, and I still vaguely remember my first meditations from that time. Strength and calm, concentration - mostly at night. They were very special moments. I didn't do it often. As a student, I continued to meditate very irregularly. I remember some of these predominantly 1-2 hour meditations, [...]
Center D'art
Rezension Article: Conceptual art during the Covid lockdown by Artist Aabhas Mahindre
Labyrinth - process aesthetics
"the eye thinks even more than it listens" (Deleuze) I now remember that before I started reading Deleuze, I had been working on process aesthetics. I made a 100-page manuscript, with notes, quotations, structural sketches. I wanted to get away from the idea that art consists of objects that are perceived in a particular form, because [...]
Diagrams - philosophical
II am slowly approaching Sanskrit. On Thursdays, Nishtha holds a seminar on the Rigveda. The joint recitation in Sanskrit, the detailed analysis of the translation, Nishtha's philological reflections and the explanations on the psychology of the gods open up access to these 'sacred' texts. I remember my Latin studies, the Indo-Germanic roots, the sounds that [...]
What to do?
Dhe last time I seriously asked myself what I should do was during my studies. I studied philosophy and I was often asked what I wanted to do with it. What a stupid question, I always thought. It's an inner urge, almost a compulsion that you can't resist. Every such [...]
Sleeping
Gesterday I went to sleep expecting to get up early and meditate. I set the alarm for 6 o'clock. In the evening, a French yoga teacher and mountain guide told me about the early morning hours in India, that they are the best for meditation - I already knew that they are good for ryas. She told me [...]