Articles tagged with: thought
meditation, meta-theory »
In this 8-part series of articles i shall introduce an inherent aspect of our mindbody functioning that is being largely overlooked and taken for granted.
It may sound so simple and obvious at first what i am about to explicate, but it is very profound and subtle, and to my knowing it has never been addressed this way. Interestingly, it is not a complex theory that introduces a whole range of new concepts. Instead, it is more of a paradigm shift, a perspective on perspectives, a theory on theories, that makes …
meditation, philosophy »
Here are some comments on a couple of popular slogans within contemporary spiritual circles, namely the ideas that “you are not your thoughts”, that “identification with form is wrong”, and that “all thinking is evil”. There might be differences in interpreting these words, but something is implicitly missing or not quite right with these statements.
In contrast to many others, i refuse to speak about life in absolute terms because we are all living in the relative world, and because i do not believe that any human being is able to …
meditation, meta-theory, personal »
During the past century, a relatively small number of highly insightful books have been published among the gigantic piles of senseless information and other bullshit. One of the most comprehensive texts is without a doubt “Thought as a System”, by David Bohm, which brings together his theories of wholeness & implicate order and the essence of his dialogues with J. Krishnamurti. Since i somehow overlooked the importance of this highly underrated quantum physicist slash critical thinker in my last post, this is a little tribute. And for the last time …

