Bmovement instead of rootedness I recently asked myself whether I really want to be grounded. Am I a tree that puts its roots into the ground and doesn't move, but grows in the environment where the seed once sprouted? Or do I even want to be a rock in the surf that lets the [...]
Defend - React - Unite
Mometimes I react strangely. Someone does something unexpected, an uncertainty is awakened in me. How do I categorize this and how do I react to it, and what does it mean to react? So it's about expectation, a way of being in the world that anticipates. The future is considered predictable and is also seen as such. When I [...]
The self
Ramana, one of India's great enlightened beings, lived in Tiruvannamalai. At the center of his teaching 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 have [...]
Art beyond progress
Dotemporary 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 [...]
The true self
IZen is about finding the true self. But there is no such thing, and that is the mystery of our existence. In a world of representations, cognitive dissonance and alternative facts, it is good to sink into the essence of existence, into a non-dual being. Thinking only helps to a very limited extent, because thinking is [...]
Form and emptiness
Form is empty. It has a form, but no substance; it is neither matter nor energy. Form is consciousness - seeing something as something produces form. However, form is also functional: substance, matter and energy interact according to laws. As part of consciousness, they interact in form. Form is emptiness. Form is consciousness. Consciousness [...]
Bodhi Zendo
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 [...]
Sacred Energy
Dhis is tantra. That is divine. The crucial question is whether such a sacred encounter is only possible in romantic love, as tradition and romance suggest - or whether it can arise when we open our being fully, beyond reason and rationality, beyond ego, desire or obligation. I believe [...]