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Andrea Sangiacomo
Dec 28, 202310 min read
Elements of freedom
What is your deepest aspiration? What is your highest goal? In one of his discourses (MN 29) the Buddha invited us to stop nowhere short...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Dec 23, 20231 min read
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
Dec 10, 20238 min read
The Life Divine Ch23-28
The last part of Book I of the Life Divine introduces some further refinements in the layered ontology that Sri Aurobindo sketched so...
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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 19, 20237 min read
Why Ecstatic Dance?
What are we really looking for? I mean, really. When we ask this question, ordinarily we come up with a list of ideals: happiness, love,...
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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
Nov 11, 20236 min read
The Life Divine Ch19-22
With this new group of chapters, we descend from the level of Supermind and Mind to that of Life. The guiding idea is the same: to...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 3, 20236 min read
In a nutshell
One of my favourite hobbies is trying to squeeze as much thought, experience and (dare I say it) wisdom into as few words as possible....
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Oct 24, 20235 min read
Looking for safety
The feeling of safety may be the most important component of spiritual and contemplative practices. Most attention goes often to how...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Oct 22, 20238 min read
The Life Divine, Ch16-18
In this upcoming group of chapters, Sri Aurobindo continues the exposition of the nature of the Supermind and its relation to the ‘lower’...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Oct 14, 20237 min read
Olé: Open. Listen: Express!
A manifesto for deep embodiment Imagine Imagine a moment in which you surrendered yourself into the embrace of another being you love (a...
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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
Oct 1, 20235 min read
Divine balance
Experience can range between two extremes. On the one hand, there is the experience of an infinite, absolute principle, all-being,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 24, 202311 min read
The Life Divine, Ch10-12
The next three chapters in The Life Divine introduce the other two essential qualities of the ultimate principle (Sachchidandana),...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 21, 20231 min read
Invocation to the Fire
* Oh, Agni! An abyss of light burns In the core of this being that is yours. Here. The mind teeming with restless thoughts. This is you,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 12, 20235 min read
The reboot plan
The devastating impact of human civilisation on our planet is not accidental. Our exploitation of the environment is merely a tool,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 8, 202312 min read
The Life Divine, Ch 6-9
With Chapter 6, Sri Aurobindo starts to explore in greater detail the integral view that he seeks to establish. After having shown the...
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