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

The main idea announced in chapter 1 of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine is that "Nature seeks a harmony" (p. 4). This presupposes the...

I started this website with the vague idea of creating some sort of online infrastructure to bind together different pieces of research I...

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...

1: All experience is consciousness of some content. Whatever is experienced is either consciousness, or something of which one is...

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...

In a chess game, the first moves are usually quite important. Players aim at taking some control of the center of the board and allow...

How should I practice? This is an important question, and its answer is made somehow fuzzy by the multitude of different methods,...

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...

There is a condition in which life flows by itself. It does not matter what exactly is experienced, but whatever happens seems to unfold...