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Showing posts with label Taoism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taoism. Show all posts
Monday, March 25, 2019

Greco-Roman Philosophy as a Path of Enlightenment

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A central inspirator for my philosophical counseling practice is Pierre Hadot. Hadot's recurring theme is that philosophy in Anti...
Friday, July 7, 2017

If you just take the thinking as a presumption, the mind will never be silent

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If you just take the thinking as a presumption you don´t investigate further, yes, then the mind will never be silent, so that it can l...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

All of the thought´s activities strengthen the ego

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All of the thought´s activities, whether they are positive or negative, are usually experiences that actually strengthen the ego, because...
Monday, June 30, 2014

If your mind can empty ifself for your images of life, it is something entirely else

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Provided that the mind can empty ifself for the known, for your perspective, your images of life, then it is something entirely else; t...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Passively to observe and feel the past´s activity is an act without past

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When the Taoist monk is sitting and observing a tree passively without any kind of thought-activity, then it is an act, which isn´t def...
Monday, April 28, 2014

To empty out the mind is to give life back to the present

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In Taoism and Zen Buddhism you time after time hear the statement about emptying out the mind. To empty out the mind means, that yo...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Meditation is to enter into the unknown

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In accordance with the Taoists, the actual thing to be present in passive listening (wu-wei), is the same as to act spontaneous (tzu-j...