Ein Apfel, eine Erdbeere, eine Melone oder eine Maracuja, eine Banane oder Pflaume, eine Tomate oder Gurke, eine Bohne oder ein Korn, eine Kokosnuss und ein Granatapfel. Früchte wollen verzehrt werden, sie wollen Genuss bereiten, nähren und zuweilen auch berauschen. Sie schillern und vergären, verwesen und verströmen Düfte, sie fallen ins Auge, betören die Sinne, […]
Encounter
SI've been waiting for some time now. Actually, I like waiting. Waiting is a space and a time in which there is nothing else to do but wait for time to pass. As a rule, there's not much else to do apart from read, talk or think. Waiting times are therefore always free spaces for me. [...]
Many me
Hoday I heard a quote from Sri Aurobindo. He said that each of us has several selves. That was clear to me. It has been my experience for decades that the different aspects of a personality are many and that the idea of a subjective identity is a construction. I always saw the principles of construction as ideological, which [...]
Foucault said that the soul is the prison of the body
SI approach big topics with small texts, is that possible? The Mediterranean region is the birthplace of monotheism - Judaism, Christianity, Islam. India is the birthplace of Hinduism. Countless gods are thought of here, or the absence of God, or the universality of the divine, depending on which of the numerous strands you follow. Two principles are [...]
Namaste - The light in me greets the light in you
In Europe, we have an idea of enlightenment as something where an individual recognizes that he or she lives under externally imposed constraints. It is then a matter of overcoming these constraints and placing oneself under a greater law. A light comes on and shines in all the dark corners, so that what is not yet [...]