This year has started incredibly solid and rejuvenating for me. Maybe it’s because life’s events teach me to differentiate between the significant and the not-so-significant, maybe it’s because I did some healing work while I was back home in Germany, maybe it’s because I’m really thrilled by cooking and plant based eating. (…)

I mentioned it in earlier blog posts already and now that I’ve read a respective book, I can only re-emphasize: the theory of psycho traumatology is an incredibly insightful, logical, and highly topical explanation of how we function as individuals and therewith shaping our societies. (…)

For me the question of identity is a big one, because I think it holds both a lot of freedom and a lot of pain and internal/external oppression. It is also one of those concepts that I dig deeper the longer I practice (something that comes up with practice) and that holds the danger of spiritual bypassing. Which is why I feel connected to it on a therapeutic level as well, where I think the healthy identity can be achieved. There, Buddhist practice may come to its limits. (…)

It doesn’t seem as if the world will continue to spin the way it has been spinning for a long time. Yes, I know. There are so many indications that it will become worse. Whether its political landscapes that radicalise, hostile and destructive communications patterns that manifest, an upheaval in societies, a questioning of societies. Yet, it often times has to get worse before it really becomes better because “awakening” in the sense of us letting go of our hold habits, thought patterns, perspectives is just not happening without some chaos. (…)

Through my continuous training in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, I’ve been super interested in the essence of identity. I spoke about that at earlier instances. It strikes me as one of the most complex and in its common understanding most limiting concepts there is. (…)

There is an interesting twist that one makes when meditating for a while. I recently read that most people start with the practice for rather ‘mundane’ reasons, such as increasing wellbeing, concentration, performance etc., and then once they’re hooked they figure that the work that they’ve done by sitting still, focusing on their breath, and returning whenever distracted, has a way more profound meaning than originally thought. (…)