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The following excerpt is from the unpublished manuscript of a book about early Buddhist thought, entitled The End of the World.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
- 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
- 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
- Oct 9, 2022
- 2 min
A short guide to death recollection
Death is one of the most important topics for recollection, which has an immense potential in terms of fostering practice and developing...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Sep 25, 2022
- 3 min
The interplay of experience
(Author's cut from An Introduction to Friendliness, §1 Reflections) It is impossible to have experience without being somehow involved...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Sep 11, 2022
- 2 min
An Introduction to Friendliness: from Picture to Cover!
In the beginning, it was just a word document with a few notes, excerpts and comments. It should have been a bit more than an annotated...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jul 24, 2022
- 6 min
The art of hermenutics
As any pianist would know, there are two boundaries within which any interpretation has to move. On the one hand, one is confronted with...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jul 10, 2022
- 2 min
Top-5 discourses of the Buddha
The Pāli canon contains many thousands of discourses (they are even difficult to count exactly, 8000? 10000? more?), spanning from a few...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jun 5, 2022
- 2 min
Top-5 anthologies of the Buddha's discourses
The Pāli discourses of the Buddha are roughly two-and-half millennia hold, and yet they still provide an incredibly precise guide to...
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