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 […].
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 [...]
Traditional Indian music, the raga, is melodic with respect to a fundamental tone. Western music is harmonic, meaning simultaneous and complex. In the West, a lot is thought in terms of structures; for a while, there was a lot of talk about structuralist and post-structuralist thought. Complex systems are found everywhere: in philosophy, in canonical texts and visual systems, in technology [...]
Enlightenment – Illumination: The Paradox of Enlightenment It's complicated with enlightenment. Recently, someone asked me if I was seeking enlightenment. I was a bit taken aback. But because I valued this person immensely, I tried to be honest – yes, no, um, I don't really know, actually yes, if I'm being completely honest […].
I cut my night meditation a little short 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 muscles, bones, and the spine. Then the breath to [...]
My morning meditation is becoming a bit of a routine, although one can hardly say that after a handful of times. It's more of a stretch, a path, or an exploration. Like hiking in the mountains: with the summit in view, it's hiking through the paths, along the ridges, through the valleys and rivers, past the rock faces, [...]
I woke up from a nightmare at 4am. I was talking to Will in Apt about a strange irritation in my perception of time. I described how time was falling into fragments and some were simply missing. It was a matter of seconds or minutes, and while I tried to immerse myself in time to describe it better, [...]