I became interested in contemplative practices six years ago. For some reason, it didn’t remain a side hobby, but quickly became the...

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...

With Chapter 6, Sri Aurobindo starts to explore in greater detail the integral view that he seeks to establish. After having shown the...

After having introduced the limitations of one extreme view on the nature of reality—reductionist materialism—we now approach the other...

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...

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,...

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...

Force develops against resistance. Growth demands constraints. When constraints work systematically and methodically, they create a...

In the beginning of the Bhagavad Gītā (2.50) we encounter the following short definition: yogaḥ karmasu kuśalam, which might be...