Andre Ling's blog

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I have a little theory about the Upanishads (Hindu mystical texts) - one that I have long been nurturing but that makes itself clearer to me every day. And I thought it might be worth sharing it here.

Upanishads means (etymologically) 'to sit down beside/close to'. Usually, it is presented as sitting down close to the Guru to acquire knowledge - but I think that this is unnecessary Guru worship (and this is where I defect). Doesn't the Guru learn from his student? What, nothing at all?
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After thinking a little about the spaces that we hold when we call people together for dialogue and reflection on various subjects, and trigerred by a question that surfaced in response to my first blog post, I got thinking about the idea of containers... and came up with the following reflections

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