#anatta

Every social order eventually reaches a point at which the categories through which it has organised reality begin generating more instability than coherence, more contradiction than legitimacy, and more conflict than consensus, and it is precisely at this point that the question of gender enters the phase of sociopolitical stress collapse, because institutions built upon rigid assumptions…

The third post of this series about gender begins its analysis when societies attempt to reorganise material reality under conditions where certainty has already collapsed, plurality has become unavoidable, and existing institutions remain structurally incapable of accommodating the complexity they now confront, thereby producing a revolutionary imposition in which social, legal, educational,…

OLD NOTEBOOKS #335: Bangkok: The sad truth about the West, is that divorce is about as common as marriage. Religion got deconstructed; the story came to pieces, no belief, no myth to feel directly connected with, except perhaps the myth of no-myth. We’re married to the economy, worship the consumer god, seek refuge, gratification, fulfilment and consolation in the purchase of goods and services.…

Once the illusion of a stable and universally valid definition of gender has fractured, the discussion enters a far more difficult territory in which contradictory frameworks continue operating simultaneously despite their mutual incompatibility, creating a condition of conceptual overload where biological models, psychological realities, cultural traditions, religious doctrines, legal systems,…

Gender is perhaps one of the most revealing examples of how civilisation mistakes administrative convenience for ontological truth, because what many societies have historically presented as a self evident, immutable, and universally intelligible reality increasingly reveals itself under scrutiny as a dense intersection of biological variation, subjective experience, cultural interpretation,…

OLD NOTEBOOKS#499: Bangkok: I was amazed to ‘hear the voice’ of Meister Eckhart reaching out to me from the 14th Century with observations on life that could have been expressed in recent times. All the more amazing to read his words on the subject of time and discover this was even more in context than I thought: A day, whether six or seven (days) ago, or more than six thousand years ago, is…

There is a man who stood before the sea for the first time in his life. He had walked three days from his inland village, carrying nothing but a small bundle of bread and the weight of questions he had never spoken aloud. When the sea finally appeared — vast, silver, indifferent, and somehow ancient with a kind of love — he did not ask whether he belonged there. He simply stood, and the waves…

OLD NOTEBOOKS #230: New Delhi: From somewhere deep in Antiquity (2nd-1st century BC) the Indo-Greek created a likeness of the Buddha saying, okay, this is who he was, and this is what he was like. Before that there was nothing; a stupa marked a place where he had been and what he had said there, but no actual identity, no story of how it began, what the cause of it was – always the echo of ‘and…