What is freedom?
Freedom is not the power of choosing what I want. There is no such a power. First, because it’s not up to me to decide what I can want (I...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Mar 171 min read
Les Folies d'Espagne
I—don’t know. But you: Will you dare to dance Les Folies d’Espagne? I—can endure the pace Of waiting and waning Slowly into silences, and...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Mar 85 min read
Contact meditation
We know and experience reality by getting in touch with it. This figurative way of speech is taken quite literally in the discourses of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Feb 2512 min read
A somatic biography
I became interested in contemplative practices six years ago. For some reason, it didn’t remain a side hobby, but quickly became the...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Feb 201 min read
Not arrows
Blindfolded by our little stories We roam prisoners of petty desires. Afraid of falling, we forgot how to Stand on earth and roll, and...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Feb 171 min read
Take it
Did you hear? The future is sold out. I wanted to give you my smartest words. But it will take ages for them to Paint even a rough...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Feb 131 min read
I hate you so much!
Keep the Truth, I want to fall. Don't wake me up. You're my dream. I don't care for the wise, they understand not. Gravity is my guide,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 231 min read
The song of the ground
Did you hear the song of the ground? A soft tune beating here beneath Your feet. Listen! As it whispers: "You can trust me. Yield, roll,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 209 min read
Ecstatic freedom
The following notes present a general vision and some practical guidelines for highlighting the potential of embodied conscious movement...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 125 min read
Homo homini deus
Experience is always about content and container, life-form and environment, center and horizon. Most often, our attention is focused on...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 81 min read
My game
Behold! This is my game. You shall these meadows cross, And straight till the end go (and again, and again, and again). Nothing expects...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Dec 28, 202310 min read
Elements of freedom
What is your deepest aspiration? What is your highest goal? In one of his discourses (MN 29) the Buddha invited us to stop nowhere short...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Dec 23, 20231 min read
I'm no poet
I’m no poet. If I were, I could sing Wordless beats. My yearning’s Beauty can But Music Understand— Sometimes, if I let it Come close...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Dec 17, 202310 min read
The challenges of embodied learning
This year, I wanted to turn Global Hermeneutics (The Tragedy of the Self) into an occasion for exposing students the idea that genuine...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Dec 13, 20239 min read
Philosophy of/in motion
The short version: 1. Any identity is based on the proscription of certain ways of moving in order to facilitate others. Identity filters...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Dec 10, 20238 min read
The Life Divine Ch23-28
The last part of Book I of the Life Divine introduces some further refinements in the layered ontology that Sri Aurobindo sketched so...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 27, 202310 min read
Hermeneutics Lab
Philosophy is often conceived (and practiced) as something that is done mostly by ‘thinking’ about a given subject, analysing its...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 19, 20237 min read
Why Ecstatic Dance?
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,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 12, 20237 min read
Primary and deep embodiment
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...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 3, 20236 min read
In a nutshell
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....
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