The Solitude Farm in Auroville is a ‚food forest.‘ This is one of the few English terms that is difficult to express with a compound word in German (Esswald?). We don't have anything like it, and it's difficult for us to think about it. An orchard that we would let become overgrown with other edible annual and shorter-lived plants until we have a dense jungle of edible plants... I'm looking for a word for this. It's the opposite of a ‚food desert,‘ for which we also have...
For many years now, my mind has been filled with emptiness most of the time. My memory isn't good either, and I often repeat words or sentences in my mind without knowing why. Often, it's simply experiences in a word in an endless loop, so to speak, like a mantra. This worried me for a long time. I tried to find excuses and justifications for it. For example, that I've done a lot of mental work and my mind is simply exhausted, down to...
I'm still at a loss for words. The past few days have been marked by thoughts of the Vedic scriptures. A companion from another life took me to Nishtha Muller, an Aurovilian who has dedicated his life to the Vedic scriptures. For almost 2 hours, in his very humble dwelling in the forest, which he planted himself, he told us about Sanskrit, its roots, grammar, pronunciation, the deep spiritual power of mantras, cultural history, and historical dimensions. His explanations are what most profoundly affected me...
In Europe, we have an idea of Enlightenment as something where an individual realizes that he or she lives under externally imposed constraints. The goal then is to overcome these constraints and place oneself under a higher law. A light goes on and shines into all the dark corners, thereby questioning what has not yet been reflected upon and examined. This intellectual movement is described with the metaphor of light as a torch. The light of Enlightenment shines centrally into…
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