What are we really looking for? I mean, really. When we ask this question, ordinarily we come up with a list of ideals: happiness, love,...

Embodiment is a process, not a state. Being in a body, having a body, living through a body are all events, not things. Not only do they...

One of my favourite hobbies is trying to squeeze as much thought, experience and (dare I say it) wisdom into as few words as possible....

The feeling of safety may be the most important component of spiritual and contemplative practices. Most attention goes often to how...

A manifesto for deep embodiment Imagine Imagine a moment in which you surrendered yourself into the embrace of another being you love (a...

The devastating impact of human civilisation on our planet is not accidental. Our exploitation of the environment is merely a tool,...

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is a world-famous philosopher, mostly known for his vocal defense of atheism. In fact, this is already an...

The following excerpt is from the unpublished manuscript of a book about early Buddhist thought, entitled The End of the World. The...

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...

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...

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...

Prelude Over the past five years, my life became a laboratory, a space entirely devoted to understand and dive into the nature of...

There are three main layers in meditation practice. In reality, they are deeply interlinked and interpenetrated, but for the sake of...

The following sketch of practice is an attempt at going through several of the meditations presented in the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (ca....

Spinoza famously stated that ‘desire is man’s very essence’ (Ethica, III, def. of affects, 1). Ordinarily, desire manifests in two...

Perhaps you glimpsed at that in a piece of art. Art takes the materiality of sensory experience, it refines, reshuffles, restructures,...

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...

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...

Experience of anything can be spelled out as ‘consciousness of something’. The ‘of something’ part indicates the intentional nature of...

'Contemplative practices' is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to a number of various methods, generally aimed at inducing some...