Author Archives: Hans van der Gugten

The one and only authorized travel pic

Picture made on my request by a passing fellow tourist of me myself, sitting in front of Honey Hut in Rishikesh, enjoying Indian Times. Good moment to see if this article in the Hindustan times is already available online. Yep, … Continue reading

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Ansichtkaart // postcard 2 // 2

Blogging only became an item for me since Swami Atmananda suggested me to stop doing it. When I search my blogs for ‘blogging’, only the two blogs show up in which I mention my stopping it: Ramji and Meji meta … Continue reading

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Ansichtkaart // postcard

Will try to show here two pictures. Never done before (by me that is) on a tablet. Ik ga proberen om hier twee foto’s te laten zien. Eerste keer dat ik dit probeer op mijn tablet.   I give up, … Continue reading

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Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Last weekend was weekend number eight of this Taotraining that I am attending since two years. I will not try to put into words what the content was of it. What I will do is give an impression of how … Continue reading

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Meetings with Sindhu and others, spring 2016.

Last week (that was half September) I bought a ticket to fly to Chennai again, this time on the second Xmass day. Hopefully by the first half of Januari I will again go to Tiruvannamalai. And looking forward to meeting … Continue reading

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Vanished twins / Verlorene Zwillinge

A few weeks ago I went to a clairvoyant woman. She spoke to me for about one and a half hour. A friend of mine knows her and at some point he adviced me to go to her, ‘she will … Continue reading

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Intellectueel plezier, intellectual joy, बौद्धिक खुशी (bauddhik khushee)

Today I watched for the second time an interview with the writer Jonathan Safran Foer about his novel Here I am. Here you can watch the interview, it is in English and it is subtitled in Dutch: http://www.vpro.nl/boeken/programmas/boeken/2016/23-oktober.html Vandaag bekeek … Continue reading

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Het is me wat met al die moeders.

  (Op 11-6-2013 schreef ik aan Elis: ‘Ik zag trouwens laatst een naamgenootje van je drijven bij het NDSM-terrein’.) Het is alweer drie halve jaren geleden dat de vrouw die ik mijn derde moeder noemde het aards bestaan verliet. De … Continue reading

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Another ode to Mother

Yesterday I stumbled upon a kind of script that’s totally new to me called nsibidi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsibidi And an artist (Victor Ekpuk) using this script as an inspiration to make art. This morning I see this one: Victor Ekpuk_Ode to Mother

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Ode aan wijlen mijn moeder // Ode to my late mother

Spontane actie na het toevallig vinden van deze video: After stumbling upon this video:  

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