You can build a very tight cage out of good intentions.

• “These thoughts are good. These thoughts are bad.”
• “Someone who has understood certain things doesn’t act like that.”
• “If I want to be enlightened / conscious / responsible, I must never do X again.”

The bars are subtle:

• Spiritual i
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At some point I decided to settle down and build a place where we could live, work and get together with like-minded people. I call it a campus.

It can host about twenty people comfortably for a seminar. When I walk around outside and look at the setup, I feel a quiet satisfaction:

“This could w

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There are moments in life when you feel a shift long before you can see it.

You can’t point to a specific event on the calendar, but there is a sense that something is in the air. You’re walking on a plateau, then suddenly you sense the edge of a new step, as if the path is quietly bending toward a...

Walk into certain temples in India and you’ll see statues and structures that stop you in your tracks.

A giant stone boulder perched impossibly on a slope.
A Dancing Shiva frozen mid‑movement, surrounded by flames.
An entire hall lined floor to ceiling with mirrors, so that every object you see ref...

Recently I’ve had a persistent cough and flu-like symptoms.

Nothing dramatic, but enough to flatten me for a day. Twelve hours in bed, no energy, body heavy.

What interested me most wasn’t the cough itself. It was the stories I noticed myself telling about it.

One story sounded like this:

“Som

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