Movement Instead of Rootedness I recently asked myself if I truly want to be grounded. Am I a tree, striking
Koan
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 […]
Bodhi Zendo
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 [...]
Who is seeing when seeing
Auro Art World organized a series of 6 lectures at the Centre d'Art multimedia room in Auroville. These lectures, conducted by Dr. Christoph Kluetsch, explore connections between art, philosophy, and spirituality, bridging Eastern and Western traditions to illuminate the enduring questions of existence, consciousness, and creativity. The series is offered on the first Tuesday of every month. Fourth lecture - Tuesday 7th January [...]
Play and Blunder
Game - Misstep In the past, when I thought of games, I thought it had to do with games in the sense of amusements and amusements with rules. To play a game means to enter a space restricted by rules, and the player can develop strategies within these parameters to act according to the rules, with the goal […].
Dakshinamurti
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
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 [...]
Chola Temple
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 [...]