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?
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.
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.
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