New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
Yesterday I saw two millipedes mating. It was pretty much the most fascinating thing I've seen in a very long time. The creatures intertwined, rubbed and entwined, there was rhythm, devotion, engulfment. The two met by chance and after a few minutes moved on in different directions. A [...]
I've been reading in India for three weeks now: Deleuze, Upanishads, Sri Aurobindo. Sometimes I meditate in between. The rest is still a remnant of everyday life in the New World. Reading the news, consuming entertainment media, organizing things that don't really have any meaning here but need continuity so that they don't break down in old Europe and the New [...].
Today I was in a choir lesson. What happened there was a very intense shared experience. I'll try to describe it as objectively as possible. We (around 60 participants) started with breathing exercises, 'warmed up' our vocal chords, sang four-part chords and scaled the pitch. The choirmaster pointed out to us that we were not here by chance [...]
I recently met a young Indian here. He comes from Delhi and for him, South India is also a foreign world, although not as foreign as it is for me. He doesn't speak Tamil and his spirituality is also a bit more serene or enlightened, as you might say. I met him again on the street [...]
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Heute war ich nun zum ersten Mal im Matrimandir. Vor 6 Jahren hatte ich mal eine Führung, das ist eine Voraussetzung später allein hinzugehen. Es ist auch sinnvoll eine grobe Orientierung zu haben, was für ein Ort das ist, wie man sich dort verhält, was andere stören würde. Während meinen Montagsmeditationen im Zen-Kreis Bremen wurde […]
Schopenhauer, who was a great admirer of the Upanishads, wrote a small book „Ueber die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde“ (1847). He identifies 4 forms of causality, e.g. small cause - large effect, or large cause - small effect etc... I was fascinated by this because it offers a broader understanding than the purely [...]
Ich habe mich immer gegen das Wort Mediation gewehrt. Vieles daran war mir suspekt. Ich habe aber zugleich seit jeher meine Formen der Meditation praktiziert, ohne diese so genannt zu haben, oder ohne sie gelernt zu haben. Für mich gehören in den Bereich der Mediation: a.) die Kontemplation, d. h. das Versinken in einen Gedanken […]
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