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Meditation (Without Magic/Sans Magie)
To meditate has meaning only if you have the same attitude towards it as you have towards going to the toilet in the morning. You don’t do it to get enlightened. You do it because it is natural, like when you wake up, you go to the toilet, you brush your teeth, you take some water in your mouth, you move it around, and you spit it out. It is totally normal.
You have nothing to do at four in the morning. If like most people you have neighbors, you cannot make any noise. If you are sane of mind, you don’t turn on an artificial light ; for this would be an insult to beauty. You don’t want to burn down your house with a candle, therefore you don’t light one, therefore you cannot read. Nor will you put on any music because the neighbors are psychopathic. Your dog is still sleeping, your wife lives with the fantasy of having a husband. You have time on your hands. What can you do ? Nothing! So, you remain still. – Éric Baret
On fait de la méditation seulement si on a la même attitude que quand on va aux toilettes le matin. On n’y va pas pour chercher l’illumination. On y va parce que c’est naturel, quand on se réveille, on va aux toilettes, on brosse ses dents, on mets de l’eau dans la bouche, on bouge tout ça et on crache. Tout à fait normal.
Il n’y a rien à faire à quatre heures du matin. Si comme la plupart des gens vous avez des voisins, vous ne pouvez pas vous permettre de faire du bruit. Si vous êtes sain d’esprit, vous n’allumez pas la lumière; ça serait une insulte à la beauté. Vous ne voulez pas brûler la maison avec une bougie, donc vous n’en allumez pas une, et donc pas question de lire. Non plus, pas de musique à cause des voisins psychopathes. Votre chien dort encore, votre femme vit avec le fantasme d’avoir un mari. Vous avez du temps dans le mains. Qu’est-ce que vous faites? Rien! Vous restez tranquille. Éric Baret (traduit de l’Anglais!)
Tania Balachova
Je ne crois qu’aux acteurs qui sont timides, ceux qui sont les plus timides sont les plus doués…
Les gens qui n’ont pas d’obstacles à surmonter dans n’importe quel art, qu’ils soient sculpteurs de pierre, qu’il soient peintres, qu’il soient acteurs, écrivains… La facilité est un obstacle terrible parce qu’
IL FAUT AVOIR DES PROBLÈMES ET LES VAINCRE POUR DEVENIR QUELQU’UN.
Il faut avoir quelque chose à exprimer.
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I only believe in actors who are shy, those that are the most timid are the most talented…
People who have obstacles to surmount in whatever art, be it sculpting stone, painting, acting, writing… Facility is a terrible obstacle because
ONE NEEDS PROBLEMS TO CONQUER THEM AND TO BECOME SOMEBODY.
There is a need to express something.
Tania Balachova, 1954 -by Thérèse Le Prat - dans La vie que je t’ai donnée de Luigi Pirandello
on my END (sur ma faim) [updated: to be continued/against stupidity]
[I can't go on, I will go on. - Samuel Beckett
After more than two years of existence (1740 posts and 37,500 views later), the PM_uoʇɹɐɯ_ɹǝıd blog had stood for what I had found worthy of notice, a sort of time-capsule, more efficient than any tombstone.
I had thought of stopping this, but I will continue]
Those who know me know why I have had to focus on “the stupid topic of stupidity,”
- Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus -
there is so much else in the world but…
- In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte
- Az emberi butaság végtelen/Human stupidity is infinite/La bêtise humaine est infinie. Hungarian Saying
- La bêtise humaine est la seule chose qui donne une idée de l’infini/Human stupidity is the only thing that gives an idea of the infinite. Ernest Renan
- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. Albert Einstein
I had thought of stopping this…
I had hoped to dislodge some of it (cf. Stephen Crane’s poem about pursuing the horizon)… but (criminal) stupidity exists in every corner - and will continue to do so – from the religious to the secular, from the streets to universities, and within every continent, nation, ethnicity, individual, in women and in men, including myself.
I had thought of stopping this…
Our only hope is kindness and to remain humane towards each other – and not just humans.
Let the so-called animals, the mountains, the trees, the plants, the sky, and everyone, teach us.
I do believe that this time here online IS NOT time passed elsewhere or more directly that:
Life is elsewhere/La vie est ailleurs… Arthur Rimbaud
Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. Max Frisch
I remain available for speaking/writing/teaching and all sorts of creative activities to challenge “what is.”
Early Pearls!
On the last day of class I asked my students what they had learned in my beginning level video production course.
With almost half of them just Freshmen, I was surprised by their responses: fortune cookie size pearls of wisdom!
I had told them jokingly at various times that I had fantasized about a “Life, Film and Media Studies” department but had had to settle for just “Film and Media Studies.”
I was glad they had learned much more than just how to edit and some keyboard shortcuts.
To find out more about “Life and Film”
visit THE SCHOOL OF NO-MEDIA
Ajahn Chah/Achaan Chah/ชา สุภัทโท Quote
If you are having a difficulty, what you must do is face it.
Go into your hut.
Shut the doors and windows.
Wrap yourself in all the robes you own.
Sit there and don’t move and face it.
Only then can you overcome it.
Thai Buddhist Master, Achaan Chah 1918-1992
Curious About The Edge?
Then, run to watch this documentary about the Antarctica and its residents.
