In the spiritual culture of India this is the Great Night of Shiva, in which his wedding with Parvati is celebrated. Among the representations of the divine, Shiva (the Benevolent) is the abysmal aspect of transcendence, the original union of opposites that disturbs us so much. While Vishnu preserves creation, Shiva destroys and regenerates it: […]
In a polyphonic choir, are the sopranos or the baritones more important? In a hospital, does the gastroenterology department or the cardiology department have a more prominent place? And in a car, couldn’t we do without cylinders or brakes? Stupid requests, of course. Anyone, being asked these questions, using a good dose of patience and
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by Bhante Dharmapala/Claudio Torrero In the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka this full moon is Poson Poya. The introduction of the Dharma to the island by Mahinda, the monk son of Emperor Ashoka, is celebrated there. The latter had sent monks in the most diverse directions, even to the West, and to Sri Lanka his
The penitential period which in the Christian context is known as Lent is connected to the evangelical episode in which Jesus, having received baptism, retreats into the desert for forty days, undergoing the temptations of the devil and preparing for what he will be called to do. Don’t we feel the need to know who
In the beginning were… the principles. Perhaps few times in life have we stopped to reflect on the true meaning of the word principle. That is, on the fact that there is not only a synonymy, but a real identity between principle, understood as a beginning, and principle in the meaning of doctrinal or philosophical
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The word of the month
“Disobedience” is a beautiful film of 2017 (released in Italy the following year) signed by the Chilean director Sebastian Lelio and taken from the homonymous novel (eleven years earlier) by Naomi Alderman. Beautiful of a sincere beauty, quite rare these days, which has among its strengths its ability to tell potentially explosive situations – the
