Culture shock and the abodes of the gods: my experiences in India
Find out more about culture shock and the connection between consciousness and body in India in this article. The Vedas play an important role in this.
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Art in Pondycherry: A look at the artists, their practice and visual language
Learn more about the artists and their inspiring practices in Pondycherry. Discover the visual language and spiritual depth of the art landscape around Auroville. Immerse yourself in the world of art beyond representational conception and discover the vibration of the senses. Experience how Deleuze's thinking and the Kena Upanishads are interwoven. Be inspired by the question of the body without organs and discover the limits of the physical body.
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Shiva Tiruvannamalei Deepam
Yesterday, I followed something in my mind that is difficult to describe. In everyday language, I might say I followed my intuition. But it's a bit more complex. I went back to Tiruvannamalai. It was the last day of the Karthigai Deepam Brahmotsavam Festival. So, on December 6, 2022, a fire was created on that mountain, as has been done for 2500 years. There is, of course, an ancient story about this. Brahman, the universal Self, manifested itself as Brahma (the creator), Vishnu...
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Meditation notes - 6.10.22 Matrimandir
Today, I finally went to the Matrimandir for the first time. Six years ago, I had a guided tour, which is a prerequisite for going alone later. It also makes sense to have a general idea of what kind of place it is, how to behave there, and what would disturb others. During my Monday meditations in Zen-Kreis Bremen, I was often drawn here. It was a place of peace and strength. Sometimes it seemed as if it wanted to tell me something. Well, it has...
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Arriving in Auroville
My perception changes when I arrive in India. The smell, the sounds, the slowness, the intuition, the acceptance, hope are wonderful things that I see. Others may see stench, noise, inefficiency, irrationality, and resignation, despair. I think it is this different perspective that allows me to feel comfortable in India. So I have had wonderful experiences. Thus I learned that different people have different perspectives on the same things. I learned by going from A to…
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Time
Cézanne drew and painted Mont Saint-Victoire over 80 times. Although from different perspectives, it was essentially just the mountain. This mountain has been there for a very long time; it exists in another era. A fruit fly has one day to live, then it's all over. We think in terms of generations when we expand our time horizon. A few hundred years seems like a lot to us. Our cultural history began 5000 years ago. For a mountain, that's practically yesterday. What do we see when we look at the same...
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