Who is RONIN
Someone who has already walked your route.
Not a simple man. An urbanist, more than 50 countries, years of spiritual practice and martial practice, serious philosophical research. All of it led to what he now shares. You don’t have to take his word for it — test it on yourself.
rōnin · what it means here
A ronin is free. His own discipline.
No master above him, no school behind him. Only the path he has chosen, and the word he keeps.
Free. He sets his own rhythm and answers for every step. Solitude is not a loss — it’s room to choose.
People call me Bodhi.
Bodhi is Sanskrit for “awakening”. Not because I’ve woken up once and for all, but because it’s what I do every day — and what I’m calling you to.
- 01Came out of tech, not out of an ashram. So he speaks the language of people who think in systems, design complex solutions, build products and are used to looking for the logic in everything — even in themselves.→ He knows what a head that won’t switch off sounds like. Yours too.
- 02Hong Kong, Mexico, India, Canada, China, Malaysia, Egypt — more than 50 countries. For a long time it was running away from himself.→ Running away didn’t work. Coming back did. You don’t need to fly to the end of the world.
- 03Years of wandering — across countries and through the East. Different masters, different traditions, years of martial practice; he stayed in no single school. Both spirit and body were tempered.→ We steer clear of foolish situations. But when there’s nowhere to retreat, a warrior acts without hesitation. Protecting yourself and those close to you is part of the path too.
- 04Ashrams of India. Advaita, the “Yoga Vasistha”, the self-inquiry “Who am I?”.→ Everything unnecessary has been dropped. What’s left for you is what works.
- 05Urbanist and hedonist. His practice isn’t hours on a mat — it’s in the middle of real life.→ That’s why the practices here are for living people, not for hermits.
- 06A systems mind. Tests the spiritual by practice, not by faith.→ You won’t have to take anything on faith.
“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or as a curse.”
India · one conversation
In India I spoke with serious people who knew. They told me my soul was very developed — that if I took up practice seriously in this life, I could step off the wheel of samsara. I said no. I don’t want to leave. I chose service: to stay, and to share what I came to.
If you know what Human Design is — I’m a Reflector.If you don’t — it doesn’t matter. What matters is what you see in the reflection.
A myth, not a legend
“I don’t invent a past for myself. I tell the truth — just not all of it. The name doesn’t matter here: what matters is what shifts in you.”
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Your own path
With respect. But on our own path.
There are traditions where knowledge passes from teacher to student and requires complete obedience. We deeply respect these lineages. For many, this is exactly the path they need right now — the way each of us once learned to read syllable by syllable. There’s nothing to argue about here.
But if something else is calling you — awakening through awareness, searching and experiment. If you have a rebel spirit that can’t simply follow “as the teacher said” — you’re in the right place.
“Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use.”
We’re closest to Advaita and Ramana’s self-inquiry “Who am I?”. Not as a new dogma — as a direction: to look for yourself.
People of knowledge
We respect and listen to more than Advaita. Castaneda too. And any people of knowledge: each of them was a knowing one in their own era, time and place. We listen — and walk our own path. We don’t blindly trust anyone. We gathered all this consciously: to feel out the boundaries ourselves and find our own way.
Deeper · four topics
Deeper. For those who want more than the short version.
Four topics — magic and science, the language of films and games, a parable and the original sources. Open whatever resonates.
01Magic is wonder. Not mysticism.
Where’s the magic
Our “magic” isn’t mysticism — it’s wonder at how reality is built. Physics increasingly describes the world in the language of information. In 1989 the physicist John Wheeler proposed a working hypothesis, “it from bit”: every particle and every field, at its very root, is tied to yes/no answers — that is, to information.
A world woven like code? It’s not a proven fact but a hypothesis. An honest one — and it brings us back to the oldest question of all: who am I in this vast world? And why am I here?
No “quantum” esoterics. We don’t say science has proven the soul. We say: the deeper you look into reality, the more interesting the question “who is looking?” becomes.
02Between frames
Between frames · the language of film and games a metaphor, not physics
Render on sight. In games, the world is drawn wherever the player looks. That’s a metaphor, not physics. But the question “who is looking?” is real.
“Groundhog Day”. Not a curse but a training ground. The only question is whether you’ve noticed the day is repeating.
Red or blue? Both pills are in the site header: “Red neon” and “Blue neon”. What matters is noticing that all this time you’ve been choosing on autopilot.
You don’t need to leave the game. It’s enough to stop forgetting that it’s a game.
03The map and the territory.
Parable
For years a man studies maps and argues about them — then he looks up and sees that the road was under his feet all along.
04For those already into it. Advaita without retellings.
From the sources
“If other thoughts rise, one should, without attempting to complete them, enquire, ‘To whom did they arise?’”
“The thought ‘who am I?’ will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed.”
“Love says ‘I am everything’. Wisdom says ‘I am nothing’. Between the two my life flows.”
Quoted from the English editions: “Who Am I?” (tr. T.M.P. Mahadevan, Sri Ramanasramam) and “I Am That” (tr. Maurice Frydman).
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