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be open to self, others and the world


"It is difficult, I confess, to get rid of representations of a tradition of 2500 years," Martin Heidegger



"I only play the works that I love. "Sviatoslav Richter

meditation and philosophy as the path of freedom

A seminar led by Fabrice Midal with the participation of Hadrian Lanord France-Paris, 18 and 19 June 2010

Meditation in its rigor and beauty, is a valuable resource to regain space open where you can get in touch with oneself, others and the world.

The heart of the project Prajna & Philia is to introduce the practice of meditation, not as a religious form that lock us in certainties but as a direct and simple way to "stir up life" in the words the poet Antonin Artaud.
In a weekend you will find the practice of meditation, how to ask and find righteousness and touch his heart.

But meditation also leads us to think and live differently. A question many evidences, habits and behaviors. Even more decisively, to question the implicit framework of our thoughts.

For this purpose and to give full scope meditation, we enter the play of philosophy, especially phenomenology, in that it allows us to gauge the appeal of the open to our existence.

We have the great pleasure of receiving Hadrien France-Lanord that accompanies the existence of Prajna & Philia since its foundation.

Hadrien France-Lanord is professor of Philosophy. He teaches in the preparatory classes at the Lycée Malherbe Caen. He has published : Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. The meaning of a dialogue (Fayard) and is the translator of the book of Martin Heidegger, The devastation and waiting (Gallimard).
Hadrien France-Lanord published by Editions du Grand Est, Open in friendship, we will present at the seminar.

This seminar will take us on a journey to discover what the opening as a dimension of true friendship.

- Why the West he chose sophia (knowledge), which became wisdom and science at the expense of friendship ( Philia )?

- Why friendship is more than a sentimental question for us? How to regain the scale?

- Why poets (and all artists who are poets) are real and deep and keep the friendship and unless the world?


Fabrice Midal teaches Buddhist meditation for over fifteen years. He founded the association Prajna & Philia to establish a Western Buddhism in dialogue with philosophy and poetry of the West. He is the author of twenty books including Risking Freedom (Threshold), And if the love we knew nothing (Albin Michel) drawing from the philosophy of Buddhism and modern art, a rigorous path for our time.


Timetable
Friday, June 18
19.30
Home Introduction to meditation
Fabrice Midal: The meaning of openness in the way of meditation: open fire from heaven


Saturday, June 19
30.9 Practice guided meditation
FAQs
12.30 Lunch 14.30 Free Meditation and
15.00 Hadrian France-Lanord: Open in the friendship relationship with oneself, the being and the world
16.30 Break 17.30
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Meditation: Fabrice Midal and Hadrian Lanord France: "Everything here is friendship
Followed by a cocktail in the gardens of Hotel Massa

The seminar will be held in the beautiful and poetic of the Hôtel de Massa. It is a time of celebration, meditation and education are presented in this perspective.

Location: Hotel Massa, Society of Men of Letters,
38, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques 75014 Paris
Price: 120 euros (excluding food / cocktail included) - 90 euros for members of the association Prajna & Philia
Information and registration: Anne Vignau, Mob. 06 37 74 44 29 or e-mail: a_vignau@yahoo.fr


For more information see the website http://www.fabrice-midal.org/

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Open in friendship

"From the issue of philia (amicalité), Aristotle helps us unlearn an agreement" sentimental "of friendship. We therefore see that philia is the one over the other with regard to its being and its excellence. Here in central metaphysical debate issues insofar philia involves the Greeks the question of Being. As we can specify Heidegger, the relationship between two human beings is unthinkable without either elucidated the question of the relationship to being. The friend is one who grant me the free report to my being. The most extraordinary is that the friend grant me something he did not himself possess. It gives something he has not. But it by him and through him I'm going to participate - take part in it of my own. Such is the splendor of human mortality: what happened to me the cleanest, I did not have possession. In friendship, you're there that you have to be, because the friend gives you your openness to being. As for this award, it is not possible without the word that has a unique way related to friendship in the broadest sense. Therefore the poet is called the friend of the world house. "
( Open in friendship, back cover)

Here's how to speak a true philosopher, in a simple and profound, as is the case of the young philosopher Hadrien France-Lanord. The difficulty lies in the simple fact that we are not accustomed to think with enough rigor and openness to see what it is. The phenomenon that seeks to achieve here is the philosopher of friendship in its highest sense. Nevertheless, whether or not you have practiced the philosophical texts does not matter if you're willing to put you in touch with what they have to say essential about the human condition. Few thinkers are smart enough to make it visible and Issues so new, personal meaning of life. Hadrien France-Lanord part of this small number, so I am delighted to announce here the release of his latest book, which is the title of this post, and the event is being prepared. Meditation practitioners who follow the teachings lay Fabrice Midal in Prajna & Philia are fortunate to have heard Hadrian teach about friendship in 2007. He returns to this theme on 18 and 19 June at the weekend, "Open to self, others and the world" to mark the publication of his book "Open in friendship" (Editions Great Eastern, 2010). Here is a short excerpt:

Question: What is the difference between love and friendship?
From this point of view, there is no radical difference (the main difference here lies in my opinion in the dimension of desire in the way of the optative is interpreted volo in love or in friendship).
In love as in friendship, there is a shared common ouvertude.
I note in passing that it is a wonderful thought of love in the first pages of the Letter on Humanism . Now read another excerpt from Heidegger, that of Volume 38:

"The friendship took off only from the highest possibility for everyone what is this consistency to be intimately itself, which, frankly, is quite other than the quest for an I. Despite what separates each individual with regard to their decision to be himself here in friendship, is brought to its fullness in unison sheltered behind a harmony, in which the aster-be sheltered back is essential. This unison, in substance, this is always what comes together properly being home to home: Secret. "Hadrien France-

Lanord is professor of Philosophy. He teaches in the preparatory classes at the Lycée Malherbe Caen. His publications include: Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. The meaning of a dialogue , Fayard. Heidegger fortiori (coll.), Fayard. Martin Heidegger (translation), has The devastation and waiting , Gallimard.


See also the post on the next weekend in Paris
be open to self, others and the world
June 18, 2010 to June 19, 2010 With
Hadrien France-Lanord and Fabrice Midal

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From the serenity to anxiety

anxiety, not unrelated to the truth

After a particularly difficult session, a patient of Jacques Lacan is reluctant to leave. It clings to the hand of his analyst: "Well Doctor, I have anxiety! . What Lacan replied: "My dear, anxiety is not a disease. You need like everyone else learn to live with. The anecdote is telling. It belongs to the domain analytic therapy, but both existential. In his book Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety Freud recalls that anxiety is no definite object ( Objektlosigkeit ), contrary to the fear that is focused on danger. But anxiety is an incursion into the unknowing general where we have our own lives, not necessarily psychopathological. This is not unrelated to the analysis of the phenomenon of anxiety in the thinker Soren Kierkegaard, the anguish that makes "the dizziness of freedom." This is not something that scares you, but nothing, no barrier between you and the world, this world as it is. Lacan addresses the issue of anxiety by giving all its importance in psychoanalysis, since it dedicates one year full education in 1962-1963. The Seminar Book X. The Anguish illuminates the point of view of French psychoanalyst on anxiety understood as "real signal" but also "a sign of desire" - the real one. In the dark and sleep, governed by the automatism of thought and way of life, not anguish. The latter, although it is not considered desirable or pleasant, is a sign of a greater truth just waiting to emerge and just shake the habit, open, often despite themselves, out to sea . Lacan insists and says in 1970 in anguish, "We are not without a report with the truth" because the anxiety is "affect central one around which everything is organized. "

In general, it refuses anxiety and it is believed that a successful human existence is to live in serenity. We seek a form of existence where one would be fairly comfortable. We talk, we make things, sometimes stressed, rushed, rushed, but deep down there is no risk. We do not really talk, we gossip, we have no real problems insurmountable, they were blown out to deal and fill her conversation with others or oneself. It serves half-heartedly, relationships, work, you're off. Most people are finding that everything is fine. Yet the practice of meditation and commitment of the Buddha reveal that this is not the case.

The Buddha left the serenity
The Buddha lived in a palace where he was supposed to remain elusive, protected from the evils of life. Nevertheless, the discovery of the Buddha is anxiety before the tragedy of existence, old age, sickness and death. The contemporary world, by creating a distance unbridled painful truths of life, likes to believe now that this batch of tests can be avoided, rejected, forgotten. These are just accidents, failures in the technical world. We have so many gadgets to ward off the anxiety now, the company manufactures ever more sophisticated, and failure is so huge ... Buddhists need to be extra vigilant. For meditation if it is misunderstood as a search for greater self-control, a discharge of his painful emotions, a distancing of anxiety, part of the slope.

But the discovery of the Buddha contains no promise. He began his teaching by the first noble truth of suffering. In this sense, the Hinayana is absolutely insurmountable. True, it was true, it will always be true: the squeaky wheel, duhkha . No chance to escape the pain of being mortal, inhabited by a fragility and finitude that we are overflowing with all sides. Chogyam Trungpa liked to recall, here in game illusion. Life and Teaching of Naropa : "The problem is to adopt the attitude that the pain should disappear and that at this time it will be happiness. It is the mistaken belief that we cultivate. The pain never goes away, and we will never be happy. That is the truth of suffering, dukhka satya. The pain is still there, we will never be happy. There is thus a mantra for you. It's worth repeating. You now have the first initiation: you have a mantra. Blind belief in the "right to happiness" that denies the painful aspects of life, with anguish aside as not being a spiritual truth, is misguided.

Anxiety wake
Anxiety is necessary. At this turning Buddhism generally expected, it is then easy to label "pessimist" because he speaks of suffering and the student as truth - and not a little truth in passing, which it will no longer need to return once said - a noble truth. Consider Buddhism as pessimistic is misleading. This is the search for comfort is a poison from the Buddha, that is to have no confidence in life, throwing out the baby with the bathwater, greatness with frailty, the truth suffering. It is, strange as it sounds, the serenity that we choke the heart. That embraces and forced to do every day smaller, asleep. Awakening the Buddha is the antithesis of that attitude. Exit the palace and the road paved for walking on a path that recognizes the anxiety instead of denying it, that's the example he left us.

The truth of the dharma is irreducible to serenity, it is much wider. It is also very striking that a thought so sensitive to human anxiety has been reduced to the level of serenity most vapid. Buddhist teachings on the ego, the three poisons, the suffering, the round of existences in samsara , this is all done for us dive into the deepest anxiety, wake up! And no, we reinforce the fact that everything will be okay. The anxiety in this sense is synonymous with clarity, intelligence, she plunges into the water head of the salutary sober prajna, she cuts the veil of pretense ethereal. The practice of meditation is made in moments of intense testing, but sometimes in the event something huge is given. These events we are experiencing in meditation are all ways to remind us that the world is bigger than all our products, all our understandings, our designs. Quote Lacan finally in the chapter, which should delight many, "The eyes of Buddha" The Anguish of the seminar : "Finally, in law, each of you is a Buddha - legal, because for special reasons, you may have been thrown into the world with a limp that will access an obstacle to this more or less intractable. "The recognition is already on the path and return, through the anguish, the truth of his being. These remarks on anxiety at first sight appear paradoxical, because meditation, like psychoanalysis, are now cut off from their original purpose, which is to awaken the sufferer at its truth, not sleep. The first noble truth is it completely forgotten?

Nicolas Inca

Sources
Sigmund Freud Inhibition, Symptom and Anxiety , PUF, 2005
Jacques Lacan, The Seminar Book X. Anxiety , Seuil, 2005
Fabrice Midal, public education "From the serenity to anxiety ", unpublished
Chögyam Trungpa, game illusion , Seuil, 1997

Buddhism News, No. 124, May 2010.
Birds Photo © Laurence Gardin.

Latin Kings And Nortenos

The powers of meditation

The Nouvel Observateur made her one of coverage (number 2372 of 22 to 28 April 2010) on meditation as a new therapeutic form accepted by science, outside the strictly spiritual. MBSR and MBCT techniques based on the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn are in the spotlight. Such media recognition of meditative practice is an event. To celebrate here reproduces the main article of the special folder meditation, by Ursula Gauthier.



Self-knowledge, anti-stress therapy, wisdom ... Here are developing a new way to unwind and focus on the moment. Inherited Eastern practices, but validated by science, the art of meditation now attracts scholars and executives overactive.

When you hear "meditation," you tend to think ashram, Kathmandu, zazen, Tibetan temple, relaxing music and incense smoke? For most of us, meditation is indeed marked by the great wave of exotic 1960s who saw his appearance in our latitudes. Regardless of the amazing success since the monasteries of Europe, where we lost count of the Benedictines and the Carmelites who have adopted these methods with fervor. Neither the installation of sustainable landscapes in our communities Buddhist converts, with their temples, monasteries and their congregations. Meditation continues to be felt by the majority as "bizarre", "from elsewhere". But things could change quickly. Fifty years after its eruption, meditation has established itself in an environment not conducive to a priori speculation mystical world hospital. The movement began there two decades in North America under the leadership of physicians and scientists interested in its therapeutic effects. The one version called mindfulness - mindfulness is now practiced in 250 hospitals and clinics. France starts just to get started.

"This is a desperate need to not let myself be crushed by an uncontrollable disease that led me to meditation, Rose M. writes on a forum devoted to fibromyalgia, a condition extremely accompanied by debilitating fatigue and constant pain throughout the body. I had heard about the effect of mindfulness on chronic pain, I found on the internet free exercises. I practice for three years, and I intend to continue because meditation has changed everything for me. "Mr. Rose tells how she once went on" the suffering of pain "constantly fighting against itself, being" mad with rage "against the body that betrayed her. She lived in the complaint, resentment and bitterness at having lost his life before his health, his career. "Meditation has taught me to listen to the crackle of my body with care and gentleness, to work with them rather than against them, and suddenly I know tame the pain. She taught me to also live in the present, so I wonder if deep inside I did not win ... "

United States, more than 10 million people claim to practice a form of meditation regularly, twice more than a decade ago. Most of them do not choose a guru to guide them in the arcane. They are initiated in schools, hospitals, governments, large corporations, and even in law offices and prisons. Research is no exception. NIH, National Institute of Health American funded in 2008 more than 50 studies - against 3 in 2000 - aimed to evaluate the effect of mindfulness on stress, addictions, concentration, depression and even hot flashes.

Mindfulness
It is no coincidence that Jon Kabat-Zinn, the scientist who developed the new method, studied Zen in the 1970s with a Korean master and, to make pocket money, he gave yoga. Convinced of the effectiveness of these practices, it seeks a way to make them equivalent in a society that looks at these young enthusiasts spirituality East as "an army of Visigoths at the gates of the city," he recalls with humor. The solution: Purge the practice of any religious reference or rituals. With related elements borrowed from yoga, Zen and vipassana (a Buddhist practice Indo-Burma), it creates a very precise method, with a strict protocol, a method of training no less demanding, he named a popular concept in Buddhism: mindfulness. The official name is MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction), "stress reduction based on mindfulness. With his doctorate in molecular biology obtained from a Nobel Prize the famous MIT, he was not too difficult to convince the university hospital in Massachusetts to create a stress clinic where patients with chronic pain would be trained in the new method. The success is such that gradually extend the indications of headache pain associated with heart disease, AIDS, cancer and chronic conditions, immune and infectious diseases, infertility.

his colleagues dermatologists, Kabat-Zinn makes even a powerful experience on patients with psoriasis treated with UV in a cabin three times a week. Those who receive a simple recording of guided meditation, circulated in the cabin during the few minutes that exposure to UV rays, their injuries will heal four times faster than the others! For the father of mindfulness, doubt no longer allowed: Mindfulness actually acts on the body. Provided that we present now fully turned to what happens in us when it happens. "Meditation is not what you believe, has a habit of saying Kabat-Zinn in his listeners. This is not to "vacuum" in his head, but to pay attention to this, moment by moment. This "almost nothing is the easiest thing and most difficult of all, he insists. Our digital revolution has catapulted us into a world where we are called on from dementia, where there is more breathing space for our poor interior. We're constantly on autopilot, so much in doing that in it! Yet it is precisely to reconnect with our being. "

The potential of this approach for the pacification of the mind and maintaining emotional balance has not escaped the long shrinks. By 1993, the Canadian psychiatrist cognitivist Zindel Segal and two of his English colleagues seized of mindfulness and develop a version - incorporating aspects of their own psychotherapy practice - called MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy) "cognitive therapy based on mindfulness. Tested on patients with a history of depression and anxiety in its Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, the method proved its effectiveness in reducing by half the risk of further relapses over two years. An amazing achievement when you know the fragility of these patients and the scarcity of appropriate interventions.

To gain freedom since
2000, Zindel Segal comes every year in Switzerland provide training where news of the finest psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in Europe. Among his first audience, the psychiatrist Christophe Andre: "The idea that we could prevent relapse of our patients with depression was big news, which allowed the French psychiatry to focus on prevention, something that she 's is being very late. The psychiatrist Anne is the first in France to open its service in a meditation group, composed half of patients and half of medical personnel. Over the years, young carers come here train and go up groups in different parts of France. So first through the shrinks that mindfulness begins to spread in France, where she is now spreading to the pain centers - an inverse pattern to that experienced by the United States. It shrinks to

trained in cognitive and behavioral therapies, CBT, which must be on the opening meditation. The TCCistes indeed seek to "reframe" the patient anxious or depressed by acting either on their behavior, either on their "cognition", that is to say about "automatic thoughts" and generally false and demeaning they maintain constant about themselves and have the effect of pushing them to fail. But how to approach emotions inadequate or disproportionate? "Meditation is a more effective tool to help manage negative emotions, fear, sadness, shame, says Dr Andrew. It must go through other brain circuits that verbal instructions that we can give these patients, who usually do anything to escape the painful feelings, lest they lead them into the spiral of panic or depression , learn to coexist with them in practice, the time of meditation, without correct or avoid them. Result: they are less afraid of their fear, they ruminate less, unless they stick to their inner speech they become even more freedom. "

But, says psychiatrist Fred Rosenfeld in his guide to meditation (1), this exercise is not without dangers. It should not be practiced by people undergoing depression or vulnerable individuals prone to delusions and hallucinations. The best option is to ask professionals who have received proper training (2). As for those who want to drink from the original source, they can turn to the advice of the monk Matthieu Ricard (3), who has taught Buddhist meditation with venerable Tibetan lamas. Our national heritage is among those who are the bridge between tradition thousands of years of Buddhist East and the latest developments in neuroscience. By lending his brain from athlete to their MRI and other brain imaging techniques, he helped show that regular practice of meditation alters brain physiology. Since the experiments on the guinea pigs of a particular kind, the concept of "brain plasticity" has taken precedence over that of "neuronal loss. No, our brain not irreversibly depleted with age. It may instead build muscle, grow and gain qualifications that only intensive training can acquire, like states lasting serenity, compassion and happiness.

(1) "To meditate is to heal," Arenas.
(2) See the directory of the Association for the Development of Mindfulness
(3) "The Art of Meditation, Nile