Author Archives: Hans van der Gugten

Second open letter sent at 5 March 2012. Dear James, I will save myself a week of editing and polishing. You get the stuff hot from the needle so to speak. Either it speaks to you or it doesn’t. Raw … Continue reading →

After the entry ‘Diederik bedankt’ there was still so much to figure out that it made me stay away from James Swarts’ satsang in order to investigate my own old stuff that was stirred. Few days ago I wrote Ramji … Continue reading →

Once in a while I acquire a book thru the bookshelf in one of the hotels here: one in, one out. Even there you can have the feeling that you cheat, or, same same, that you make a profit: Yesterday … Continue reading →

Lately  walked up a few time before breakfast to Ashkandashram, for the morning singing. Remembered that there was a recording of this on youtube. And here it is, in two parts, the prayer singing begins at 1.45 minute. Enjoy.

There is even a gift in fuzzy rhetoric. (In this is my totally subjective aversion against all this teachers that seem to need it to dethrone other teachers/teachings in order to situate theirs). So, again, there is a gift in … Continue reading →

So, that was the transition from this two weeks retreat with Swami Suddhananda, back to Tiruvannamalai, happening kind of simultaneous with the passing over of the remnants of cyclone Thane that brought here a severe storm accompanied with a day … Continue reading →

A few years ago I visited for a while a what I call ‘happy church’ in Amsterdam, one with pentecostal traits. My expectation, or better my hope, was that it would kind of help annihilate some of my bitter memories … Continue reading →

Friday, December 16 2011, 7.45. Decided to give the program a go from the very start: Alarm clock at 5.30, morning tea at 5.40. From 6.30 till 7.30 I just had my first yoga lesson in decades. There was this … Continue reading →

The coming one and a half month I will be in Tiruvannamalai, India (!ndia). The first two weeks I’ll participate in a retreat with Swami Suddhananda in his ashram. Schiphol, Tuesday, December 16, 06.00 hours. So, here we are, checked … Continue reading →