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Invitation to a Philosophical-Contemplative retreat in Italy

Saturday, 18 March 2017

Ran Lahav

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Invitation to a unique retreat of philosophical-contemplation In the spirit of silence, reflection, and philosophical togetherness Liguria (northwest Italy) between April 28-May 2 Come a...

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Miranda and her Philosophical Trio (Chapter 2)

Saturday, 18 March 2017

Ran Lahav

Reflections

It’s the second weekly meeting of the Philosophical Trio, and Miranda is glad to see again her two new companions. Linda, the philosopher and facilitator, invites David and Miranda to share their expe...

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Miranda and her Philosophical Trio (Chapter 1)

Friday, 10 March 2017

Ran Lahav

Reflections

Miranda is sitting alone in her room, holding the philosophical text which her philosophical practitioner had given her. Today, like always, she is extremely busy – work, family, cleaning, buying – bu...

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Precious texts on Agora

Friday, 03 March 2017

Ran Lahav

Reflections

I look at Agora’s “Topics” section – it has so many beautiful philosophical texts from 2500 years of Western philosophy. I go through the monthly pages, month by month, and I see texts by famous philo...

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Philosophy and self-transformation

Wednesday, 04 January 2017

Ran Lahav

Reflections

Throughout history, many important Western philosophers discussed how philosophy can help transform our lives. Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Bergson, and many many others – the...

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Why is "Deep" so important?

Saturday, 31 December 2016

Ran Lahav

Reflections

In my book Handbook of Philosophical Companionships (2016), I say: “We contemplate because we treasure profound ideas and profound understandings in togetherness. We cherish the profound, just as in m...

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What is deep?

Sunday, 25 December 2016

Ran Lahav

Reflections

We often say: "This is a profound idea," or "She was lost in deep thoughts," or "It touched me deeply," or "He is a profound person," or "She had a deep spiritual experience," or "He is deeply attache...

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A NEW MAP OF PHILOSOPHY

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...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Ran Lahav on 03 June 2018

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

Philosophical Contemplation (2018)

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...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Loyev Books on 06 June 2018

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

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

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

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

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

Philosophical voices of the human ocean

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...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Reflections on 29 November 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

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

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

THE MUSIC OF REALITY AND OF IDEAS

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...

By Ran Lahav

Posted in Ran Lahav on 10 June 2017

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

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

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

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