Arthur Waley
If we stop looking for “persons of superior morality” (hsien) to put in power, There will be no more jealousies among the people. If we cease to set store by products that are hard to get, There will be no more thieves. If the people never see such things as excite desire, Their hearts will remain placid and undisturbed. Therefore the Sage rules By emptying their hearts And filling their hearts? Weakening their intelligence And toughening their sinews Ever striving to make (…)
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III - Agir — Non-Agir
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II - L’Être et le Non-Être
15 de fevereiro de 2018Waley
It is because every one under Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty, That the idea of ugliness exists. And equally if every one recognized virtue as virtue, this would merely create fresh conceptions of wickedness. For truly, Being and Not-being grow out of one another; Difficult and easy complete one another. Long and short test one another; High and low determine one another. Pitch and mode give harmony to one another. Front and back give sequence to one another. Therefore the Sage (…) -
Ramana: enseignement et méthode
14 de fevereiro de 2018En effet, il nous est impossible de vivre, de sentir ou d’agir sans prononcer le mot « je ». Chacun dit ‘je pense, je désire, je suis...’. Ce que le terme de « je » dénote est donc une existence évidente par elle-même. Mais nous sommes-nous jamais demandé ce que ce mot renferme ? Le conseil invariable de Râmana Maharshi est que chacun doit se demander : ‘Qui est-ce « je » ?’ et arriver ainsi à découvrir par lui-même le « Je » réel. Chacun dit ‘je vais, je viens’ etc. C’est une expérience de (…)
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I - La Voie
14 de fevereiro de 2018Waley
The Way that can be told of is not an Unvarying Way; The names that can be named are not unvarying names. It was from the Nameless that Heaven and Earth sprang; The named is but the mother that rears the ten thousand creatures, each after its kind. Truly, “Only he that rids himself forever of desire can see the Secret Essences”; He that has never rid himself of desire can see only the Outcomes. These two things issued from the same mould, but nevertheless are different in name. This (…) -
Spira: Tempo e Memória
9 de fevereiro de 2018Original
It is often said that time is an illusion, but if I look back at my life, memories seem to validate the existence of time.
Memory seems to validate time, but if we look at it closely we see that it in fact validates the timeless, changelessness of Consciousness.
Memory creates the appearance of time, in which objects are considered to exist independently from one another, and through which they are considered to evolve.
However, we have no experience of a past that stretches (…) -
Wei Wu Wei: What is Time? (TM72)
20 de novembro de 2017Extrait des pages 151-154
In considering the problem of ‘time’ it should be desirable to understand what people in general mean by the word. Let me take two examples from newspapers, one French and the other English, which happen to be in front of me. The French one refers to ‘la marche objective et inexorable du temps’. That statement appears to be a typical example of the view according to which we stand apart observing the passage of time, which appears to be objective and inexorable, (…) -
Liber Graduum: ON THE HIDDEN AND THE VISIBLE MINISTRY OF THE CHURCH
14 de setembro de 2015Brethren: since we believe that there is a hidden stripping of the heart as it abandons the earth and is raised to heaven, we ought to be stripped physically even of our possessions and our inheritance, and then we shall be observing the commandments of him who gives life to all, and we shall know that the man who is united to our Lord and meditates on him constantly enjoys a secret prayer of the heart. Let us pray also with our body as well as our heart, just as Jesus blessed and prayed in (…)
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Schelling: Philosophie de la Mythologie Livre II
7 de setembro de 2015Leçon sept Remarques préliminaires sur la philosophie de la mythologie Le point de départ de l’analyse : la possibilité d’une altération de l’homme Les expressions répondant à cette possibilité dans la mythologie : les notions de Némésis, d’Apatè (Mâyâ), le concept de tentation
Leçon huit L’altération effective de l’homme = Archi-Hasard (Fortuna primigenia) Les traces de cet événement dans la mythologie ultérieure. La figure de Perséphone La première condition de Perséphone, comparée au (…) -
Gaboriau : AUX ABORDS DE LA MÉTAPHYSIQUE
7 de setembro de 2015"Repetitorium" au final du tome "L’entrée en métaphysique", de l’excellent cours de Florent Gaboriau, "Nouvelle initiation philosophique" (Casterman 1962).
-* AUX ABORDS DE LA MÉTAPHYSIQUE APPROCHE Dispositions d’esprit suggérées par le début de la Première Méditation Métaphysique (Descartes), et appliquées à notre recherche (philosophie primordiale) : a) remise en cause totale, allant jusqu’aux principes, aux origines, aux tout-débuts (arche) : archologie, pourrait-on dire, s’occupant (…) -
INTERROGER LES PHÉNOMÈNES OU PHILOSOPHER PAR ORDRE
7 de setembro de 2015"Repetitorium", "Phénoménologie de l’existence", cours de Florent Gaboriau, "Nouvelle initiation philosophique" (Casterman, 1962).
-* INTERROGER LES PHÉNOMÈNES OU PHILOSOPHER PAR ORDRE A. L’INTERROGATION, principe d’intervention. 1. l’impulsion métaphysique prend naissance au niveau du logos (langage pensé), c’est-à-dire au niveau de ce que l’on estime-être, et que pour cette raison on interroge : car on n’est pas sûr, on ignore. 2. laisser venir à soi, dans une série de questions, (…)
