"The earth and air of the country, the heart of mortals and the inhabitants of heaven, everything must be open, that is to say, to the extent of the mind. Martin Heidegger, Hölderlin Approach
"Meditation is not just to do" nothing "to do, but also to showcase its openness to the world. "Chogyam Trungpa, The heart of the matter
This post is taken from the newsletter Fabrice Midal, which explains the meaning of work at the crossroads of meditation and philosophy, the theme of the weekend to come," Being open self, others and the world "18 and June 19, 2010 in Paris.
Nightlife framework
few weeks ago, I went to a retreat. This is an important time of year, where I am confronted very directly to loneliness and intensity of practice. Meditation is sometimes described as a gesture of hygiene of the mind. Of course, as it is good to brush your teeth or do some exercise, get in touch with his own mind through the practice of meditation allows you to find this thread of confidence and stability in the heart of the tumult of emotions, anxiety and difficulties we all face.
But the practice is even more profound, an adventure and a way to make his life an adventure. Too often we live our lives as if it were a highway. Everything is already decided. Because of fear, lack of courage and especially small compromises, small sacrifices, the lack of vision, we live a life that does not really look like. We sometimes even then the vague feeling that we live next to us. We can do projects that follow other projects - the deeper meaning of everything we do fails. The practice of meditation involves living his life as an adventure, a way of entering the unknown. We discover the faces of the self, the landscape of reality and states of being quite amazing.
Strangely, most people understand as the adventure involving taking hallucinogenic potions, eat plants in South America or in more common to travel in foreign countries. But these are, in most cases, that sophisticated forms of entertainment. Nothing great, not real opened. Intense experiences are strictly nothing in common with genuine spiritual experiences. The former are merely confirmations of our existence, ways to focus on yourself-and-yet-self. The second we are entering a very decisive in this opening where the self, others and the world will really show. An opening that moves our way of being and questions everything.
is striking. People who return from their journey into the world, you show the photos they have taken, and show nothing alive. We only see pictures that we know in advance that we've seen in all the books and magazines. They are not out of the box of their minds. They just moved the framework in other landscapes. They confuse the new landscape with the real discovery of an unknown. The real adventure is to touch the part of our habits, our fears, our belief, our conformism. Now touch the frame, awareness, less prisoner free themselves from our blinders, imposes a discipline and a real work.
Learn to meditate ...
Meditation in its rigor and beauty, is a valuable resource to regain the open space where you can enter in relation to oneself, others and the world - so really new. The heart of the project Prajna & Philia is, therefore, describe the practice of meditation, not as a religious form that lock us in certainties but as a direct and easy to "stir up life," to use expression of the poet Antonin Artaud. To quote the German poet Johann Peter Hebel (1760-1822): "Whether we like it or not we admit it, we need plants that have roots to break ground in order to flourish in the ether and bear fruit. " The Meditation is now the twenty-first century, the royal road to find an anchor that gives confidence fertile and allows us to grow.
To live and think differently
But meditation also leads us to think and live differently. It is not a retreat into an ivory tower, but a risk of sustained open and recognize the opening to the heart of the world. It finds its meaning as it makes us question the number of evidences, habits and behaviors. It liberates us. Even more decisively, it makes us question the implicit our frameworks of thought.
weekend of meditation that will take place on Friday 18 and Saturday, June 19, would try to approach meditation in this venture deep in it. And trying to think more before the opening, we have the great joy of being the philosopher-Lanord Hadrian France, which accompanies the existence of Prajna & Philia since its foundation.
In the previous weekend in Paris organized around And if the love we knew nothing? , I had the pleasure of receiving Michel Cazenave and Hellenist Jean-Paul Savignac, comparing the path to find the love which unfolds from the practice of meditation (in the heart of my own commitment) to two great traditions of the West. It was the opinion of all, a highlight. Play in ancient Greek poetry of Sappho into a meditation seminar, opened his heart to the point and gave meditation a greater extent.
The challenge of this weekend of June in Paris is in a sense more ambitious: to approach the responsibility of the meditation into our world to change our relationship to everything and make space for an adventure that addresses not only significant to the narrow framework of our own insularity but also those of our own time and our civilization. We did, in fact, at the age of globalization and devastation, hatred of the earth, no other possibilities. But as pointed out by Martin Heidegger: "It is difficult, I confess, to get rid of representations of a tradition of 2500 years." Yet such is the task we have ahead. I do not teach meditation to help perpetuate the ignorance that is destroying our world, but rather to liberate us.
"Meditation is not just to do" nothing "to do, but also to showcase its openness to the world. "Chogyam Trungpa, The heart of the matter
This post is taken from the newsletter Fabrice Midal, which explains the meaning of work at the crossroads of meditation and philosophy, the theme of the weekend to come," Being open self, others and the world "18 and June 19, 2010 in Paris.
Nightlife framework
few weeks ago, I went to a retreat. This is an important time of year, where I am confronted very directly to loneliness and intensity of practice. Meditation is sometimes described as a gesture of hygiene of the mind. Of course, as it is good to brush your teeth or do some exercise, get in touch with his own mind through the practice of meditation allows you to find this thread of confidence and stability in the heart of the tumult of emotions, anxiety and difficulties we all face.
But the practice is even more profound, an adventure and a way to make his life an adventure. Too often we live our lives as if it were a highway. Everything is already decided. Because of fear, lack of courage and especially small compromises, small sacrifices, the lack of vision, we live a life that does not really look like. We sometimes even then the vague feeling that we live next to us. We can do projects that follow other projects - the deeper meaning of everything we do fails. The practice of meditation involves living his life as an adventure, a way of entering the unknown. We discover the faces of the self, the landscape of reality and states of being quite amazing.
Strangely, most people understand as the adventure involving taking hallucinogenic potions, eat plants in South America or in more common to travel in foreign countries. But these are, in most cases, that sophisticated forms of entertainment. Nothing great, not real opened. Intense experiences are strictly nothing in common with genuine spiritual experiences. The former are merely confirmations of our existence, ways to focus on yourself-and-yet-self. The second we are entering a very decisive in this opening where the self, others and the world will really show. An opening that moves our way of being and questions everything.
is striking. People who return from their journey into the world, you show the photos they have taken, and show nothing alive. We only see pictures that we know in advance that we've seen in all the books and magazines. They are not out of the box of their minds. They just moved the framework in other landscapes. They confuse the new landscape with the real discovery of an unknown. The real adventure is to touch the part of our habits, our fears, our belief, our conformism. Now touch the frame, awareness, less prisoner free themselves from our blinders, imposes a discipline and a real work.
Learn to meditate ...
Meditation in its rigor and beauty, is a valuable resource to regain the open space where you can enter in relation to oneself, others and the world - so really new. The heart of the project Prajna & Philia is, therefore, describe the practice of meditation, not as a religious form that lock us in certainties but as a direct and easy to "stir up life," to use expression of the poet Antonin Artaud. To quote the German poet Johann Peter Hebel (1760-1822): "Whether we like it or not we admit it, we need plants that have roots to break ground in order to flourish in the ether and bear fruit. " The Meditation is now the twenty-first century, the royal road to find an anchor that gives confidence fertile and allows us to grow.
To live and think differently
But meditation also leads us to think and live differently. It is not a retreat into an ivory tower, but a risk of sustained open and recognize the opening to the heart of the world. It finds its meaning as it makes us question the number of evidences, habits and behaviors. It liberates us. Even more decisively, it makes us question the implicit our frameworks of thought.
weekend of meditation that will take place on Friday 18 and Saturday, June 19, would try to approach meditation in this venture deep in it. And trying to think more before the opening, we have the great joy of being the philosopher-Lanord Hadrian France, which accompanies the existence of Prajna & Philia since its foundation.
In the previous weekend in Paris organized around And if the love we knew nothing? , I had the pleasure of receiving Michel Cazenave and Hellenist Jean-Paul Savignac, comparing the path to find the love which unfolds from the practice of meditation (in the heart of my own commitment) to two great traditions of the West. It was the opinion of all, a highlight. Play in ancient Greek poetry of Sappho into a meditation seminar, opened his heart to the point and gave meditation a greater extent.
The challenge of this weekend of June in Paris is in a sense more ambitious: to approach the responsibility of the meditation into our world to change our relationship to everything and make space for an adventure that addresses not only significant to the narrow framework of our own insularity but also those of our own time and our civilization. We did, in fact, at the age of globalization and devastation, hatred of the earth, no other possibilities. But as pointed out by Martin Heidegger: "It is difficult, I confess, to get rid of representations of a tradition of 2500 years." Yet such is the task we have ahead. I do not teach meditation to help perpetuate the ignorance that is destroying our world, but rather to liberate us.
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