New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
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 [...]
I think about Deleuze, the movement of becoming. To extinguish the sound of the stream, I must become the sound; to enter the stream, I become part of it. When I linger in the forest, I take part in the silence and the chirping, the rustling of the leaves. I become one with nature. [...]
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 […]
I am in a sesshin, a 2.5-day short form of intensive Zen meditation. Thoughts and images about artificial general intelligence (AGI), which we are currently creating, keep coming to me. More and more people from the humanities, psychology, or team organization fields are expressing admiration, surprise, and anxiety regarding AGI's capabilities. It seems that [...]
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 [...]
Ever since I first heard about shadow work decades ago, I've wondered what exactly it is. I always thought of deep abysses in the soul, traumas, taboos, secrets that one hasn't shared with anyone because it's too shameful to talk about. I thought shadows are what we hide from ourselves and...
What does it mean to understand another person? It's easy to understand someone when you agree with them, because then you're just agreeing with yourself. You might even enjoy seeing your own thinking reflected in the other person, enriched by a slightly different perspective, more colorful, livelier, more energetic, because both of you are happy to have found someone [who understands you].
It's a full moon in India. Time for self-reflection, meditation and inner reflection. I've never really thought about death before. It has always been a boundary for me, the thing that defines our existence in a negative way. Finitude throws us back on ourselves, or so I thought. I somewhat agreed with Heidegger here. Something [...]
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