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Philosophical Contemplation (2018)

Wednesday, 06 June 2018

Ran Lahav

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PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATION Philosophical contemplation means reflecting on fundamental life-issues from our inner depth. It takes us beyond our ordinary thought-patterns to new realms of understandin...

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A NEW MAP OF PHILOSOPHY

Sunday, 03 June 2018

Ran Lahav

Ran Lahav Reflections

For more than two years, AGORA has been presenting a short philosophical text every week. We now have almost 100 texts in Agora’s section “Philosophers about Life” and “Philosophical Topics.” For some...

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Philosophical voices of the human ocean

Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Ran Lahav

Ran Lahav Reflections

If we want to do deep philosophy, we must remember the philosophical voices of the past. The writings of deep philosophers throughout history are humanity’s attempt to address basic life-issues, which...

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"DEEP PHILOSOPHY" - OUR MANIFESTO

Thursday, 05 October 2017

Ran Lahav

Reflections

In the last day of our philosophical-contemplative retreat in Brando, near Torino in Italy (August-September 2017), only six of us remained: Michele Zese and Stefania Giordano (Italy), Monika Obermeie...

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Stepping out of Plato's Cave (2016)

Monday, 28 August 2017

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Stepping out of Plato's Cave (2016) Philosophical practice is an international movement of philosophers who believe that philosophy can help us live our life more fully and deeply. Ran Lahav, a major ...

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THE SENSE OF THE SACRED IN PHILOSOPHY

Saturday, 05 August 2017

Ran Lahav

Reflections

Philosophical Contemplation is not just an intellectual exercise. When we contemplate a text or an idea, we must be able to appreciate what is precious, even sacred. The word “sacred” might create res...

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Contemplating in the Queen's palace

Saturday, 24 June 2017

Ran Lahav

Reflections

Before we start with philosophical contemplation, we must prepare ourselves to encounter what is precious, profound, even sacred. We are going to meet inner reality – the Queen, so to speak – and befo...

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Retreat of Philosophical Contemplation (Italy, August 2017)

Saturday, 17 June 2017

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A RETREAT OF PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATION Near Torino, Italy, Wednesday August 30 – Monday, September 4 Come and leave at your own free time. Free participation (except for food). All are invited, espe...

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WHEN VAGUE WORDS ARE MORE PRECISE THAN ANALYSIS

Saturday, 17 June 2017

Ran Lahav

Reflections

Sometimes, when I silently contemplate on a philosophical text, an inspired thought rises in my mind, like a bubble from the depths of a lake. It whispers in me a precious idea, pregnant with meaning,...

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THE MUSIC OF REALITY AND OF IDEAS

Saturday, 10 June 2017

Ran Lahav

Ran Lahav Reflections

In philosophical contemplation, we don’t try to reach a conclusion. We contemplate an idea or a text, and we don’t wait for a bottom line, we don’t expect a product – a final decision, an answer, a th...

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Saliendo de la Caverna de Platón

SALIENDO DE LA CAVERNA DE PLATÓN La famosa Alegoría de la Caverna de Platón nos enseña que la filosofía puede transformar nuestra vida y elevarla. Puede ayudarnos a comprender la estrecha “caverna” en...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Loyev Books on 06 June 2018

The Deep Philosophy Group (2nd edition)(2019)

The Deep Philosophy Group (2nd edition) The Deep Philosophy Group is an international group of philosophical practitioners who are committed to doing philosophy from their inner depth. They reflect in...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Loyev Books on 06 June 2018

Contemplazione Filosofica (2018)

Contemplazione Filosofica (2018) La contemplazione filosofica riflette sui temi fondamentali dell’esistenza a partire dalla profondità interiore. Contemplare filosoficamente porta al di là degli schem...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Loyev Books on 03 December 2018

A NEW MAP OF PHILOSOPHY

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Ran Lahav on 03 June 2018

ON DEEP THINKING

ON DEEP THINKING (Miranda and her Philosophical Trio) “Yesterday,” Miranda tells Linda, “I had a strange experience reading the philosophical text you gave us. A marvelous experience. I’m not s...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Ran Lahav on 13 May 2017

3. SELF-TRANSFORMATION

We practice Deep Philosophy because we want to get in touch with the depth during the session. But in addition, we may also have a long-term goal in mind: to transform ourselves and be connected more ...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 19 May 2019

Miranda and her Philosophical Trio (Chapter 7)

PHILOSOPHY AND THE MANY VOICES OF LIFE Every day, Miranda takes a few minutes to contemplate on a philosophical text. This morning she contemplates on a text by the Swiss thinker Max Picard [See Agora...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Ran Lahav on 06 May 2017

4. IDEAS VERSUS THEORIES

In our search for realness, in Deep Philosophy we explore fundamental issues of life and reality. We work, in other words, with philosophical ideas. But philosophy, so it seems, is abstract and remote...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 02 June 2019

MEXICO ICCP 2018: THE BOUNDARIES OF PHILOSOPHY

I have just returned home from Mexico City, from the 15th International Conference of Philosophical Practice. The conference was superbly organized by David Sumiacher and Paulina Ramirez, and we all h...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 17 July 2018

Contemplación Filosófica (2018)

Contemplación Filosófica (2018) Contemplación filosófica significa reflexionar sobre temas fundamentales de la vida desde nuestra profundidad interior. La contemplación filosófica nos lleva más...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Loyev Books on 03 December 2018

PHILOSOPHY AND DEEP PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy is a rich movement through history, and who can squeeze its many shapes into one simple definition? We may say, for instance, that philosophers investigate fundamental issues of life and re...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 22 October 2019

Philosophical Contemplation (2018)

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Loyev Books on 06 June 2018

PHILOSOPHY AND SELF-TRANSFORMATION

Throughout the history of Western philosophy, we find important philosophers who believed that philosophy can transform our lives. An obvious example is Plato, who writes that philosophy can take us o...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 31 December 2018

MIRANDA AND HER PHILOSOPHICAL TRIO (Chapter 6)

THE “LANGUAGE” OF MY YEARNING In the days that follow the Philosophical Trio meeting [see previous chapter], Miranda is full of thoughts. The Trio had identified several concepts in Miranda’s way of t...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Ran Lahav on 15 April 2017

DEEP PHILOSOPHY versus PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE

People sometimes ask me: Is Deep Philosophy a kind of philosophical practice? My answer is: No. Both of them have a similar starting point, but from there they go in opposite directions. Let me start ...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 26 October 2018

2. PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATION

In Deep Philosophy we contemplate. What is contemplation? Contemplation is a practice in which we direct our mind to think and understand from a deeper dimension of our being. What distinguishes it fr...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 04 May 2019

1. PILLARS OF DEEP PHILOSOPHY

The Pillars of Deep Philosophy are the essential ideas on which Deep Philosophy is based. Essential – because if any of them is missing, the practice is longer Deep Philosophy. You may formulate these...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 20 April 2019

Il gruppo Deep Philosophy (2019)

Il gruppo Deep Philosophy (2019) La Deep Philosophy è un approccio contemplativo alla filosofia. In essa, i praticanti riflettono sui temi fondamentali della vita dalla propria profondità interiore e ...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 03 December 2018

Being a Wave in the Ocean - Philosophical Contemplation

A philosophical theory cannot touch human reality in the same way that human reality is real for me. Reality is real to me not as a theory. If I want to understand human reality as fully and deeply as...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 26 May 2017

THE MUSIC OF REALITY AND OF IDEAS

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Ran Lahav on 10 June 2017

5. VOICES

In Deep Philosophy, like in every philosophy, we philosophize with ideas in order to explore fundamental reality. Traditional philosophers usually do this by constructing theories about the way realit...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 16 June 2019

Philosophical voices of the human ocean

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 29 November 2017

CONTEMPLATION - Letting the depth speak through us

What does “contemplative philosophy” mean? How can philosophy be contemplative? Philosophy is a search for the fundamental principles of life and the world, the deepest truths, the ground, the essence...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 03 June 2017

How Philosophy is Changing my Life

Philosophy has changed my life because for me, philosophy is not just abstract ideas. Abstract ideas can make me think abstract thoughts, but not much more. Philosophy can change life because philosop...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Ran Lahav on 20 May 2017

6. RESONATING

In Deep Philosophy, we sometimes speak about connecting to our “Inner Depth,” while at other times we speak of listening to “voices” of reality. These two concepts, Inner Depth and Voices, use differe...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 18 July 2019

Our "Deep Philosophy" Retreat

In February, our “Deep Philosophy” group met for our second philosophical-contemplative retreat. The retreat took place in the tiny village of Brando near Torino, Italy, in a large house that belongs ...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 23 March 2018