Movement Instead of Rootedness I recently asked myself if I truly want to be grounded. Am I a tree, striking
Defend - React - Unite
Sometimes I react strangely. Someone does something unexpected, and an insecurity within me is awakened. How do I process that and how do I react to it, and what does "react" even mean here? So it's about expectation, a way of being in the world that anticipates. The future is considered predictable and is seen as such. When I [...]
The self
Ramana, one of India's great enlightened beings, lived in Tiruvannamalai. At the core of his teachings is the concept of the Self: its emptiness and at the same time immeasurable vastness. His teachings are simple; he does not follow a long tradition of interpretations. He was a simple man who meditated on the mountain and held satsangs. As a contemporary of Aurobindo, people [...]
Art beyond progress
Contemporary art is obsessed with the „next step“. The avant-garde, the unprecedented, the new and unique. But in the hunt for the new, we lose sight of something essential: artistic practice itself. Artistic practice is not just about crossing boundaries. It is one of those things that make art [...]
The true self
Zen is about finding the true self. But this doesn't exist, and that's the mystery of our existence. In a world of representations, cognitive dissonances, and alternative facts, it is good to sink into the essence of existence, into a non-dual being. Thinking helps only very limitedly, because thinking is [...]
Form and emptiness
Form is empty. It has a shape, but no substance; it is neither matter nor energy. Form is consciousness - seeing something as something produces form. However, form is also functional: substance, matter and energy interact according to laws. As part of consciousness, they interact in form. Form is emptiness. Form is consciousness. Consciousness [...]
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 [...]
Sacred Energy
This is Tantra. This is divine. The crucial question is whether such a sacred encounter is only possible in romantic love, as tradition and romanticism suggest – or whether it can arise when we fully open our being, beyond mind and reason, beyond ego, desire, or obligation. I believe, [...]