Treating someone without regard is sometimes a mark of affection… in the same way that the ellipses of language may indicate connivance : if we sometimes
Étiquette : language
Verbal Experience
The calming of the body and mind is an essential prerequisite for divine talkingfor talking about the divine, People of a religion have, mostly, a
Un Centre Polaire
–Le pôle ‘religiosité’, une construction autour d’un agrégat d’idées :Beaucoup d’esprits se perdent alors dans des ramifications raffinées et séduisantes. -Le pôle ‘spirituel’, ce pôle de
A wordless reading
Reading the Bible or the Kor’an in French is it itself a profound teaching,Indeed, French will never be able to transcribe the subtleties of the
A Polar Center
–The religion-polarity, a construction around an aggregate of ideas :Many minds then get lost in refined and seductive ramifications. –The spirituality polarity, the polarity of being,
Your language
Whenever I speak while practicing silent sitting,It’s not really me talking to you,It is who I am,And I’m not talking to you from here,But from
Clusters Around God
The idea we have of God, like the words we cluster around God, are deviations, diversions, from the encounter with God. Silent sitting leads through
The Circumference Of My Eye
When I read, here and there, the teachings from the boundless space, I can hear the language of my family. These teachings are familiar to
Dwell
Welcoming GodWelcoming you Buddha NatureIs one silent, inner phenomenon,An inner process. There are no words for this,And it is incredibly simple Words make things complicated,This
A Matter Of Consensus
Language and all its applications are based on the same logic of consensus and reference as money.-value granted-self-reinforcement-progressive consolidation through the functionality of the financial
Illusion of Grip
When anxiety gets out of control, it is necessary to give the illusion of a possible grip on reality. Anxiety comes from the lack (or
An Experience of Timelessness
After so many years spent living it, following its flows and back-flows, all these thousands of hours trying to understand it and improve its articulation,
Nuages de Pensée
Le langage est indissociable de la penséeIl est son corps, comme la poussière permet à l’eau de former le nuage. Sans poussière, sans support à
A Universal Language
When emotions are illegible, there’s no use for words any longer.Only silence can unbind them, and return them to nothingness. We need to make out
Clouds and Dust
Language is inextricably bound up with thought,It is its body, the same way dust allows water to shape a cloud. Without dust, there can be
Notes & Silence 