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The following excerpt is from the unpublished manuscript of a book about early Buddhist thought, entitled The End of the World.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
Sep 2, 20231 min read
Aphorisms on the Seed of the Dancing Lord
Afterthoughts after a retreat. Full explanation here.
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Aug 24, 20233 min read
Beyond orthodoxies
I’m moving forward, but I’ve no idea where I’m going. It is as if the pieces of a huge and complex puzzle were suddenly falling into...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Aug 20, 202311 min read
The Life Divine, ch 3-5
After having introduced the limitations of one extreme view on the nature of reality—reductionist materialism—we now approach the other...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Aug 8, 20234 min read
The Life Divine, Ch 1-2
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...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Aug 7, 20232 min read
Dhammavicaya 2.0
I started this website with the vague idea of creating some sort of online infrastructure to bind together different pieces of research I...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jul 11, 20238 min read
New beginnings
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...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jun 6, 202310 min read
How to deal with the past?
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...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jun 3, 20237 min read
Yogasāra
Prelude Over the past five years, my life became a laboratory, a space entirely devoted to understand and dive into the nature of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
May 17, 20237 min read
Variations without Theme
There are three main layers in meditation practice. In reality, they are deeply interlinked and interpenetrated, but for the sake of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Apr 30, 20234 min read
Everything in five propositions
1: All experience is consciousness of some content. Whatever is experienced is either consciousness, or something of which one is...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Apr 8, 20238 min read
Bhairavakrama
The following sketch of practice is an attempt at going through several of the meditations presented in the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (ca....
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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
Mar 4, 202310 min read
The calls of Bliss
Perhaps you glimpsed at that in a piece of art. Art takes the materiality of sensory experience, it refines, reshuffles, restructures,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Feb 26, 20233 min read
Three attitudes towards spiritual practices
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...
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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
Jan 26, 20235 min read
Pure consciousness
Experience of anything can be spelled out as ‘consciousness of something’. The ‘of something’ part indicates the intentional nature of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 19, 20239 min read
Contemplative practices in public education
'Contemplative practices' is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to a number of various methods, generally aimed at inducing some...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 15, 20235 min read
Opening moves
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...
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