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
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 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
Oct 9, 202310 min read
The Life Divine, Ch13-15
After having introduced the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, Sri Aurobindo starts a series of Chapter that will take use towards...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 4, 20237 min read
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, 20235 min read
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The following excerpt is from the unpublished manuscript of a book about early Buddhist thought, entitled The End of the World.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, 20237 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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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