What does it mean to understand another person? It's easy to understand someone when you agree with them, because then you're simply agreeing with yourself. You might even enjoy seeing your own thinking reflected in the other person, enriched by a slightly different perspective – more colorful, more vibrant, more energetic, because both of you are happy to have found someone on the same wavelength. This mirroring, the mirror neurons, gives us a feeling of appreciation, of being seen, a harmony, and a sense that…
It's a full moon in India. Time for self-reflection, meditation, and inner contemplation. I've actually never really thought about death. It always seemed like a boundary to me, the thing that defines our existence negatively. Finitude throws us back on ourselves, or so I thought. I agreed a little with Heidegger here. Thinking about something beyond death always seemed arbitrary, naive, romantic, escapist, and gullible to me... Only in existential reflection did it seem meaningful to me. The dead...
Enlightenment – Illumination: The Paradox of Enlightenment: Here's the thing about enlightenment. Someone recently asked me if I was seeking enlightenment. I was a bit taken aback. But because I really respected this person, I tried to be honest – yes, no, um, I don't quite know, actually yes, if I'm being completely honest… Why all this hedging? Why not just say directly, yes, I am, like you did, when you answered that you thought most people were seeking…
I cut short my nighttime meditation a little earlier 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 musculature, the skeleton, the spine. Then observing the breath, inhaling and exhaling, the turning point of the breath, pausing to observe oneself, how thoughts begin to loosen, following them attentively...
I woke up from a nightmare at 4 AM. I was talking to Will in Apt about a strange irritation in my perception of time. I described how time was fragmenting and some parts were simply missing. It was seconds or minutes, and as I tried to dive into the time to describe it better, it went black. I screamed for help, I was blind, and I woke up. It was one of those dreams where I seemed to die. Immediately...
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For the last two years, I've been diving quite deeply into the Upanishads, have practiced some yoga, and have explored the system of yoga a bit. I've delved into my own body, my own senses, my own consciousness. I've seen that there are a large number of levels and that there's no reason to assume that more levels don't exist. Two years ago, I simply denied most of what I'm experiencing here. It is...
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 locus 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 architecture and serves as a practitioner's temple, reveals its central role in a cluster of about two dozen temples in the vicinity. It follows the main principles of Vastu,…
Sometimes meditation is quite 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 standstill 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 I learn how meditation really works. I sit down, a chaos of thoughts and feelings spreads. It takes a long time until I...
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