New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Game - Misstep In the past, when I thought of games, I thought it had to do with games in the sense of amusements and amusements with rules. To play a game means to enter a space restricted by rules, and the player can develop strategies within these parameters to act according to the rules, with the goal […].
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