I say this at every philosophical chat with the students of our courses. The listener looks at me, says I'm right though they don't give much of a thought to the concept and after a few moments, the only real starting point (even of arrival in reality) to transform oneself from a mere biological machine to a conscious individual, vanishes without leaving any trace.
Read MoreAncient Stoicism emphasized how often men focus on the idea of external freedom and then be totally inwardly slaves to their impulses.
Read More"Not" is a fascinating adverb and how we relate to it, tells of our character, of the ability to know how to manage your life without being a slave to your biological machine. The biological machine, not capable of free will, confuses the automatic response to stimuli with freedom.
Read MoreIf you wish to make good use of these pills of stoicism, try for a week to commit to putting them into practice. Make it your priority and then see how and if your life changes. If they prove useless you will have lost little as they are free.
Read MoreIf your desire for a comfortable life, without problems, without battles to fight, surrounded only by people with whom you have neither conflicts…
Read MoreIn all of Mishima's writings, death occupies a fundamental place. It is as if all life has meaning only in the face of perfect death. The very meaning of life is given only with respect to the end of it.
Read MoreMishima in contemporary history is so significant and representative of so many different instances that it is really difficult to understand it in its entirety.
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I am seriously feverish for the first time in recent years. For me it is a beautiful feeling of frailty, enhanced by the fact of being home alone . I lie down covering myself with all the blankets I have. I close my eyes and start dreaming.
I have almost finished writing a book that represents a personal attempt to find meaning for existence. I am a child of an era beset by the idea of happiness.
Read MoreEvery month or so, one of the most powerful organizations commercially linked to Yoga in Italy sends its newsletter. Normally I do not read it because it is full of laughable obvieties, but the last one was mentioned to me by several people who consider it outrageous. Indeed it is.
Read MoreIn today's world, references to audacity, strength, courage, pride that survive only in a few TV series have all disappeared.
Read MoreManipulation has convinced us that comfort, the lack of real, big problems, and the obtainment of fun and pleasure are a goal to be pursued as an indisputable indicator of actual "progress".
Read MoreI take the opportunity, thanks to an email sent by one of our students lamenting the fact that she has not found Love and Union in Yoga as she would have expected, to make some small yet important clarifications.
Read MoreSome comments on last week's post about the GREAT Gabriele D'Annunzio, pushed me to give some clarification, to make understandable a cosmological background, for many impossible and unknown, but that for others may be clarified only a little.
Read More"I have what I have given" is a simple sentence that contains the answer to a thousand questions about the existential evil that afflicts many people.
Read MoreI quote verbatim the novel I'm reading that talks about a couple experiencing a "crisis":
"Yet we all had the magical period, we rejoiced and suffered with butterflies in the stomach .... Then came marriage, cohabitation, habits. It is difficult to be poetic when you're confronted with habits ... Because there's nothing worse than a flat everyday life."
With Christmas approaching, I'd like to share a few thoughts on the spirit of the Gift.
We live in a society that exalts independence and individualism. The integrated Sapiens into today's society refuses duties, does not like social bonding, thinks only in terms of selfish gain, does not understand gratitude, suffers from pathological narcissism and is therefore unable to love.
These are the three existential levels that you need to nourish daily.
The Sky represents the unknown, the divine, esotericism and magic. It means honouring the mystery that envelopes the reason for existence and trying to understand it experientially through meditation, prayer and whatever modality allows to perceive this connection.
From a Christian point of view, God is certainly dead. His church has totally abdicated its own values. The prevailing religion today is that of a nihilistic God, the religion of Nothingness, served in libertarian feel-good sauce with lots of rainbow colors. Some call all this, progress or evolution, as if there were something good in this destructive drift of all value.
Read MoreThe small parallel world of which I am a part is based on a fundamental misunderstanding. The "small world" I refer to I could call it "yogic" or "new age". The name doesn't matter. I want to point out that, like all worlds, it has things that I like, such as the revaluation of the esoteric way and magic, and others which in contrast I find horrible and that are mostly the trivializing and superficial approach to esotericism and magic. But we know that "shallowness" is a bit the evil of the century and is not the point of this post.
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