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...

This year, I wanted to turn Global Hermeneutics (The Tragedy of the Self) into an occasion for exposing students the idea that genuine...

The short version: 1. Any identity is based on the proscription of certain ways of moving in order to facilitate others. Identity filters...

Philosophy is often conceived (and practiced) as something that is done mostly by ‘thinking’ about a given subject, analysing its...

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...

After having introduced the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, Sri Aurobindo starts a series of Chapter that will take use towards...

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The following excerpt is from the unpublished manuscript of a book about early Buddhist thought, entitled The End of the World.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

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

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...

Death is one of the most important topics for recollection, which has an immense potential in terms of fostering practice and developing...

(Author's cut from An Introduction to Friendliness, §1 Reflections) It is impossible to have experience without being somehow involved...

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...

As any pianist would know, there are two boundaries within which any interpretation has to move. On the one hand, one is confronted with...

The Pāli canon contains many thousands of discourses (they are even difficult to count exactly, 8000? 10000? more?), spanning from a few...

The Pāli discourses of the Buddha are roughly two-and-half millennia hold, and yet they still provide an incredibly precise guide to...