Category: meditation

• November 14, 2013

  ‘Breathing sun…’

  Words that came to me during morning meditation moments before a philosophical conversation: * 1 Breathing sun Swinging gate Whistling turn…  2 O breathing sun O swinging gate breathe and whistle me till you whirl and whistle me into you.
• November 12, 2013

  ‘Release the eyes…’

  Words that came to me during morning meditation moments before a philosophical conversation: * Release the eyes, the twitching wrists, the furled mouth. Free the neck and go timeless.
• November 11, 2013

  ‘Clean the palate before each new word…’

  Words that came out of a morning meditation moments before a philosophical conversation: * Clean the palate before each new word. In order to receive each word as new. But each word is new. So, keep the palate clean always.
• November 9, 2013

  Either death is something for us, or else it is nothing for us…

  1. Either death is something for us, or else it is nothing for us. 2. If death is something for us, then we can either go along with it, or we can resist it. 2.1. If we resist it, then we will be filled with strife and ultimately we will lose. 2.2. If we go…
• October 29, 2013

  The relevance of temperance for social entrepreneurs

  In Book II of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that we cultivate the moral virtues by means of habituation and proper training. The right kind of education in courage will put us face-to-face with fear so that we can ‘learn to despise things that are terrible and to stand our ground against them.’ Later on in…