“Love yourself”, they say. A single sentence that triggers so much in me. “I don’t want to be selfish. I don’t want to be arrogant. I don’t want to put myself above others.” – These are all socially shaped concepts with which I do not want to identify. Then a realization: loving myself does not …
Meditation does not describe a state of not thinking, but rather the state of having thought through to the end. For a long time I thought I couldn’t meditate because my mind wandered to the future, to the past, mostly ignoring the now. Until I realized that I just needed to focus on this mind; …
Isn’t it interesting that we humans can actually reprogram our conscious and subconscious mind? With every day more I see the neccessity of such a reprogramming – our minds have not been properly upgraded to function well in the modern age. They mostly still operate on software from the stone age and hence need a …
Forgiveness is not as important to the forgiven as it is important to the forgiver. We have all been hurt, intentionally or unknowingly, by other people. Unfortunately, often precisely from those people who were or are very close to us. However, if we don’t heal these wounds, they bleed all over our future. They allow …
When the white man reached Turtle Island, which people now call “The United States of America,” he found people there who were different from himself. They only covered their nudity where it was of practical use, and otherwise had very different customs from those known to the white man. For example, the native people of …
You are enoughjust the way you are – you don’t have to give me anythingyou don’t have to say anything,you don’t have to do anything…because I see you. And just the way I see youI accept you –evaluation creates separation,creates our downfall. So, only if you like,take your masksfrom your face –others might not like …
I wrote the following poem in 2015. It became an important guiding star of everything I create: Never looking to take away the pain, but rather embracing it, absorbing it completely, until it transforms itself from the ashes of the burned past into a beautiful phoenix of newfound insight. Today, in my Chi Sessions, I accompany …
My name is Dada, and I have been in contact with the spiritual world and its inhabitants since I was reborn into physical reality in May of 1988. For decades, I was made believe that I am sick, that something is wrong with me – until I came into contact with plant medicines and they …
Often I have to laugh heartily at human-shaped words – weeds is one of them. So a herb is not a herb, say a weed, only because it eludes human control. Because it does not do what we want, it becomes an absurdity. There are many things that have become preposterous because they are uncontrollable: …
Perception. A word that we use very often without being aware of its meaning; it’s origin is the latin word percipere, which means “to receive, understand”. Nowadays we mostly use this word as a synonym for awareness. But awareness originates from old english “gewær”, which means to be aware of something. Hence there is a …
Isn’t it interesting how much our perception is subject to our focus? Like in a photograph, everything in the background blurs except the thing we focus on. Depending on what we hold in our focus, our reality feels very different. For example, if my focus is on all the things I do not have, but …
On closer inspection, structures are omnipresent in our lives. We do not perceive them because they are invisible – they are the grid that holds creation, the manifested reality, together. Everything in nature has a chemical signature, a code that defines its form in manifested reality. An embryo follows in its development exclusively the sequence …
The Unalome is a symbol from Buddhism and is often described as a sign of the path to enlightenment. Since the concept of enlightenment is a very abstract concept in the West, I usually say that it is the symbol of the path from separation to totality. The symbol begins at the center of the …
“Perhaps the terrible is basically the helpless that wants help from us.” Today I stumbled upon this quote from Rainer Maria Rilke, and it has caused a lot of Dadaistic thoughts in me. Not only that I fully agree with this statement, no, it also reminds me of a practice called Chöd, which was very …