The Power of Music: A Meditation on Consciousness and Inner Spaces
we experience the power of consciousness through the intermingling of different vibrations. This text explores the constitution of consciousness in a meditative state.
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The Secret of Kolams: Meditation, Art, and Tradition in Tamil Nadu
Learn more about the secret of kolams—a traditional art form in Tamil Nadu in which women draw complex patterns on the streets before sunrise. This practice combines dance, meditation, and contemplation and conveys symbolic messages across generations.
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The Power of the Upanishads: Clarity and Spirituality Through Meditation
Discover the spiritual power of the Upanishads and the Rigveda in India. Experience the beholding of essence and the pure form of the senses in meditation.
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Leaping Fish
As a teenager, still at school, I began meditating; I still vaguely remember my first meditations from that time. Strength and quiet, concentration—mostly at night. They were very special moments. I did not do it often. As a student I continued meditating very irregularly. I remember some of these meditations, mostly lasting 1–2 hours, as though they had just happened. I always lacked the words (when I forced myself to name it, I reluctantly said transcendental); I also had no…
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Emptiness
For many years now, my mind has been filled with emptiness most of the time. My memory is not good either, and I often repeat words or sentences in my mind without knowing why. Often they are simply experiences in a word on an endless loop, in a sense like a mantra. For a long time this worried me a great deal. I tried to find excuses and justifications for it. For example, that I had done a great deal…
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Sleep Research
Recently I listened to a podcast about dreams and was once again very surprised. The director of the sleep laboratory in Mannheim says that anyone can train themselves to remember dreams. I, at any rate, can do that, so that is true. What still surprises me greatly, however, is the reduction of dreams to the subconscious. Dreams supposedly only make use of stronger images to draw our attention to working on something we neglect in waking consciousness. A pity and…
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Meditation Notes – 6.10.22 Matrimandir
Today I was in the Matrimandir for the first time. Six years ago I took a guided tour; that is a prerequisite for going there alone later. It also makes sense to have a rough orientation as to what kind of place it is, how to behave there, what would disturb others. During my Monday meditations in the Zen circle in Bremen, I was often carried here. It was a place of peace and strength. Sometimes it seemed as though…
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Meditation
I have always resisted the word meditation. Much about it was suspect to me. Yet at the same time I have always practiced my own forms of meditation, without calling them that, or without having learned them. For me, the realm of meditation includes: a) contemplation, that is, sinking into a thought and deliberately tracing impulses of thought on a subject, circling until the mental image becomes clearer and appears before the inner eye. b) Paying attention to one’s own…
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