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 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The following excerpt is from the unpublished manuscript of a book about early Buddhist thought, entitled The End of the World.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
- 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
- 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 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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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Feb 3
- 2 min
The Sacrifice
The first time I was born out of fear and ignorance. Seeing this folly, following the path of the Silent Sage, I turned around, seeking...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jan 26
- 5 min
Pure consciousness
Experience of anything can be spelled out as ‘consciousness of something’. The ‘of something’ part indicates the intentional nature of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jan 19
- 9 min
Contemplative practices in public education
'Contemplative practices' is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to a number of various methods, generally aimed at inducing some...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jan 15
- 5 min
Opening moves
In a chess game, the first moves are usually quite important. Players aim at taking some control of the center of the board and allow...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jan 11
- 3 min
Reverse-engineering, almost
How should I practice? This is an important question, and its answer is made somehow fuzzy by the multitude of different methods,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jan 8
- 2 min
Scaffolds
Force develops against resistance. Growth demands constraints. When constraints work systematically and methodically, they create a...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Nov 6, 2022
- 14 min
The art of playful action
In the beginning of the Bhagavad Gītā (2.50) we encounter the following short definition: yogaḥ karmasu kuśalam, which might be...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Oct 30, 2022
- 5 min
Spontaneity
There is a condition in which life flows by itself. It does not matter what exactly is experienced, but whatever happens seems to unfold...
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