Tag: Upanishads

Shavasana

I am fascinated by the synchronicities here in Auroville. The mental, intellectual, spiritual, physical, and emotional spaces that intertwine here often do so over several days, seemingly effortlessly, intuitively, easily. I was exhausted. A friend had left his body, as they say here. The community had provided support for over a month, many had grown closer. In a small circle, the death ceremony Karumadhi was held, a specific type of puja on the 16th day when the soul leaves this world. For a few weeks...

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House

Art begins not with flesh but with the house. (Deleuze) I am now practicing meditation. It has taken me a long time to admit this to myself. I have somehow always done this, I just didn't know it. Like most people, I have phases where I look inside myself, or concentrate on something contemplatively, phases where I try to calm my mind, or figure out what this self within me actually is, phases where I try to understand what my…

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