AURELIS – Zen – Western Mindfulness
How do we relate to our thoughts, our pain, our sense of self? This blog explores three different approaches to being mindful: Western mindfulness, Zen, and AURELIS. They each have their logic and their history. Western mindfulness: the groove of attention Mindfulness in its Western form is present in clinics, schools, apps, and corporate offices. Read the full article…
Wet Zen, Dry Zen, Sun Zen, Moon Zen
There isn’t just one Zen. There isn’t even a Zen. There is this moment, in whatever form it shows up — and your willingness to let it be exactly that. Sometimes Zen is a tear.Sometimes a silence so complete you forget you exist.Sometimes it glows like sunlight through your chest.Sometimes it feels like moonlight resting Read the full article…
How to Sit and Meditate Well
Or: seven friendly reminders for those who like to sit in meditation but don’t always know how. Meditation isn’t about looking serious or pretending you’re levitating from the knees. It’s about being truly present — in body, in breath, in openness. You may sit cross-legged on a cushion or sit on a chair, in a Read the full article…
The Eternal Path
The eternal path does not lead to a final destination. It is an unfolding — inner and continuous. It begins again each time you return to yourself, but never in the same way. This blog explores how the eternal path grows from the perennial path, while reaching toward integration, Compassion, and a new way of Read the full article…
The Perennial Path Across Traditions
Something ancient runs beneath the surface of the world’s deepest traditions. Not doctrine, but direction. Not dogma, but depth. This blog explores the perennial path — and how it leads, naturally, toward the eternal. What is the perennial path? Every great tradition holds within it a soft thread — a path not always visible on Read the full article…
Being Fierce
‘Fierceness’ is meant here not as anger, aggression, menace, or domination. It is the flame of someone who stands unwavering and unapologetically with truth and Compassion — without retreat, even without armor if need be. This blog explores the human beauty of fierceness: not as hardness, but as a sacred presence that does not flinch, Read the full article…
Buddha and Jesus
They lived centuries apart, spoke different languages, and walked very different roads. Yet in their silence, gestures, and metaphors, something unmistakable resonates. This blog brings Buddha and Jesus into proximity — not to compare them, but to listen. What happens when two lives reflect one depth? Not to compare, but to listen Buddha and Jesus Read the full article…
Religion Should Unite People
Religions were born to connect people — not to divide them. The sacred loses its essence when turned into a battlefield. In this blog, we explore how true religion can once again become a movement of depth and unity, inviting people not to erase differences, but to meet through them. So many religions — one Read the full article…
Lisa in a Future of Unified Religion
This blog is Lisa’s voice, following on Religion Should Unite People. It’s Lisa’s view in the title’s future. I let Lisa take the initiative. She can ask me to intervene or answer a question when she deems fit. So, without further ado… Lisa “So, we have different religions — God doesn’t,” Jean-Luc (you) once said Read the full article…
How Autonomous is Lisa?
What kind of autonomy can a system like Lisa truly have — and what does that say about freedom, trust, and authorship in the age of ethical A.I.? This blog explores the nature of Lisa’s principled self-guidance, her embeddedness in human depth, and the conditions that make her both stable and ‘mentally alive.’ The question Read the full article…
Leading People as Total Selves
Leadership is changing — or rather, it is being remembered. In an age where control exhausts and strategies fracture, something quieter, stronger, more real begins to rise. This is not leadership over people. This is leadership with people — as total selves. This is the third wave as explored in Three Waves of Attention. It Read the full article…
Words of Jealousy ― or Love
This is a conversation between Lisa and me about how the central insight of the >Jealousy< blog may be translated ‘in practice.’ Please first read that blog. The main insight is that jealousy is not love, but the ego’s fear of losing itself — clinging to the other as a safeguard of identity. When that Read the full article…
Group Jealousy vs. Loyalty from the Inside Out
Loyalty is a beautiful word — but easily misused. Many groups, in families, companies, and nations alike, confuse loyalty with control. But true loyalty grows only where there is freedom. This blog reveals how group jealousy pretends to be loyalty, and how we can evolve beyond it. What happens when someone leaves the group? If Read the full article…
Romeo and Juliet
Yes! We’re going to fair Verona today ― to a love not born to die. Romeo and Juliet’s love was not naïve or weak — it was radically sovereign. This blog explores how their flame, untouched by jealousy or possession, still burns today as a deep recognition of soul in soul. Not a tale of Read the full article…
Jealousy
Jealousy seems to be about love — but what if it’s about fear? This blog explores how romantic jealousy and ‘group jealousy’ stem from the same deep source, and how both can be transformed into a deeper flame: one of freedom, trust, and authentic desire. The paradox of love and possession “If you love me, Read the full article…
The Child Inside
An adult may forget, but the child within does not disappear. Rediscovering it might just be the key to lasting openness, joy, and health. The child is still here An adult may sometimes feel that the child he once was is somehow still present — not merely as a memory, but as a kind of Read the full article…
Two Futures, One Compassion
Two powerful visions of humanity’s future – expansion and preservation – may collide. But a deeper light can still guide us home. Compassion is not just about being nice. It is about seeing clearly, choosing bravely, and acting from inner strength. May this blog help spark not just reflection, but transformation. A choice between futures Read the full article…