The Life Divine, Ch10-12
The next three chapters in The Life Divine introduce the other two essential qualities of the ultimate principle (Sachchidandana),...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- 7 days ago
- 1 min
Invocation to the Fire
* Oh, Agni! An abyss of light burns In the core of this being that is yours. Here. The mind teeming with restless thoughts. This is you,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Sep 12
- 5 min
The reboot plan
The devastating impact of human civilisation on our planet is not accidental. Our exploitation of the environment is merely a tool,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Sep 8
- 12 min
The Life Divine, Ch 6-9
With Chapter 6, Sri Aurobindo starts to explore in greater detail the integral view that he seeks to establish. After having shown the...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Sep 4
- 7 min
The Nietzschean trauma
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is a world-famous philosopher, mostly known for his vocal defense of atheism. In fact, this is already an...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Sep 4
- 5 min
The non-appearing of the non-appearing.
The following excerpt is from the unpublished manuscript of a book about early Buddhist thought, entitled The End of the World. The...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Sep 2
- 1 min
Aphorisms on the Seed of the Dancing Lord
Afterthoughts after a retreat. Full explanation here.
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Aug 24
- 3 min
Beyond orthodoxies
I’m moving forward, but I’ve no idea where I’m going. It is as if the pieces of a huge and complex puzzle were suddenly falling into...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Aug 20
- 11 min
The Life Divine, ch 3-5
After having introduced the limitations of one extreme view on the nature of reality—reductionist materialism—we now approach the other...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Aug 8
- 4 min
The Life Divine, Ch 1-2
The main idea announced in chapter 1 of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine is that "Nature seeks a harmony" (p. 4). This presupposes the...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Aug 7
- 2 min
Dhammavicaya 2.0
I started this website with the vague idea of creating some sort of online infrastructure to bind together different pieces of research I...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jul 11
- 8 min
New beginnings
My last five years have been a laboratory for exploring meditative practice(s). No aspect of the rest of my life has been unaffected by...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jun 6
- 10 min
How to deal with the past?
Life is becoming. We all enter this game as it is already rolling—and hopefully it will still be rolling when we exit. Nobody actually...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jun 3
- 7 min
Yogasāra
Prelude Over the past five years, my life became a laboratory, a space entirely devoted to understand and dive into the nature of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- May 17
- 7 min
Variations without Theme
There are three main layers in meditation practice. In reality, they are deeply interlinked and interpenetrated, but for the sake of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Apr 30
- 4 min
Everything in five propositions
1: All experience is consciousness of some content. Whatever is experienced is either consciousness, or something of which one is...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Apr 8
- 8 min
Bhairavakrama
The following sketch of practice is an attempt at going through several of the meditations presented in the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (ca....
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Mar 26
- 7 min
Redeeming Desire
Spinoza famously stated that ‘desire is man’s very essence’ (Ethica, III, def. of affects, 1). Ordinarily, desire manifests in two...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Mar 4
- 10 min
The calls of Bliss
Perhaps you glimpsed at that in a piece of art. Art takes the materiality of sensory experience, it refines, reshuffles, restructures,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Feb 26
- 3 min
Three attitudes towards spiritual practices
It is fairly common to get into a certain practice by imitation. Something becomes the hype of the moment and one wants to try it out. Or...
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