What is truth?

Is there Truth? Perhaps not.

There might however be truth in a given context - the right action or speech for this moment. That which generates wisdom and inner peace.

Are healers of body and soul the only true philosophers?

Knowledge

The trial and error of taking care of plants and vermicomposting is teaching me to adjust the conditions for life to thrive

Substance

What is a beautiful life?
Playing beautiful music with your instrument : your body
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How do you play beautiful music with your body?
By harmonizing with the cosmos. By pleasure and joy.

May you know your body well. May you play it well.

Craft as Existentialism

Develop skill and muscle memory
Pay close attention and respond appropriately

Yurt

Living Lightly

As a bee — without harming the blossom, its color, its fragrance — takes its nectar & flies away: so should the sage go through a village.

"Pupphavagga: Blossoms" (Dhp IV), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight, 19 September 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.04.than.html.

Digestion

A person is wise when skilled at digesting.

There is a material food, but also spiritual food.

How do you allow your body to process conversations? the movies you watch?

Do you sometimes allow your body to "throw up" what is toxic?

What is your "diet"?

After a feast of music, do you know how to properly rest your "digestive system"?

Please do not hold on to the food you swallowed. Let the opinions you formed go through your intestines. There is absorption and then defecation. Are you constipated?

Know your body. May you digest well.

Plantes en accéléré

vie des plantes par supervielle

Practice

I would summarize my practice the following way :
Iyengar Yoga is adjusting and tuning the antenna.
Zazen is receiving the signal clearly despite interference.

The antenna is the body. The signal the sensations. The interference is stressful mental activity.

Yoga is union/connection as opposed to alienation/disconnection.

May you be peaceful.

I Beg You

I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer…

-Rainer Maria Rilke

Content

And how is a monk content? Just as a bird, wherever it goes, flies with its wings as its only burden; so too is he content with a set of robes to provide for his body and almsfood to provide for his hunger. Wherever he goes, he takes only his barest necessities along. This is how a monk is content.

"Kevatta (Kevaddha) Sutta: To Kevatta" (DN 11), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight, 8 June 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.11.0.than.html.

Virtue

Protecting oneself one protects others;
Protecting others one protects oneself.
And how does one, in protecting oneself, protect others?
By the repeated and frequent practice of mindfulness.
And how does one, in protecting others, protect oneself?
By patience and forbearance, by a non-violent and harmless life,
By loving-kindness and compassion.

Samyutta Nikaya

L'Invitation au voyage

Mon enfant, ma soeur,
Songe à la douceur
D'aller là-bas vivre ensemble!
Aimer à loisir,
Aimer et mourir
Au pays qui te ressemble!
Les soleils mouillés
De ces ciels brouillés
Pour mon esprit ont les charmes
Si mystérieux
De tes traîtres yeux,
Brillant à travers leurs larmes.

Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.

Des meubles luisants,
Polis par les ans,
Décoreraient notre chambre;
Les plus rares fleurs
Mêlant leurs odeurs
Aux vagues senteurs de l'ambre,
Les riches plafonds,
Les miroirs profonds,
La splendeur orientale,
Tout y parlerait
À l'âme en secret
Sa douce langue natale.

Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.

Vois sur ces canaux
Dormir ces vaisseaux
Dont l'humeur est vagabonde;
C'est pour assouvir
Ton moindre désir
Qu'ils viennent du bout du monde.
— Les soleils couchants
Revêtent les champs,
Les canaux, la ville entière,
D'hyacinthe et d'or;
Le monde s'endort
Dans une chaude lumière.

Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.

— Charles Baudelaire

Why do people feel they have to be in love when they can simply love?

Questions

Are you becoming a person who is less in conflict with the world or with yourself?
Are you becoming more loving? more accepting?
Are you no longer getting in the way of reality flowing through you?
Are you becoming more concentrated?
Are you becoming freer? Are you becoming wiser?

Duck

Thank you Acouphene