octobre 2007
Pérpétuer l’éphémère/perpetuate the ephemeral
"What I've been trying to do all my life can't be done. I want to copy reality exactly as I see it. Impossible, of course, because what you see continually changes in time and space, [...]
Hors-la-loi/Outlaw
"Ce qui est permis ne nous apprendra rien." Ariane, dans Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, opéra de Paul Dukas (poème de Maurice Maeterlinck) ("What is permitted will teach us nothing.")
septembre 2007
Un rien, en fleur/Nothing, in bloom
Un rien nous étions, nous sommes, nous resterons, en fleur: la rose de rien, de personne. --- Paul Celan, extrait de "Psaume" (Nothing we were, we are, we will remain, in bloom: the rose of [...]
Home is here
As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or its scent, so let the sage dwell in the village. --- Dhammapada
Flowers in the mire/Fleurs dans la boue
It's like this: The high plateau does not produce lotus flowers; it is the mire of the low swamplands that produces these flowers. Vimalakurti (C'est comme ceci: Le haut plateau ne produit pas les fleurs [...]
août 2007
Writing on the Wall
Life at my age is not easy, but spring is beautiful and so is love. Sigmund Freud, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, in a letter to H.D.
Behind the mountains in Portugal
A week behind the mountains in Portugal. With our hearts, birdsong and the moon rose bright and full. Sky vast by night and day, a cool breeze and a rustle in the trees. Sun and [...]
Liberté/Freedom
L'ÉCLAIR ME DURE... Comment dire ma liberté, ma surprise, au terme de mille détours: il n'y a pas de fond, il n'y pas de plafond. René Char (THE LIGHTENING REMAINS WITH ME How to express [...]
juillet 2007
At this very moment
Individuals, just as they are, reveal the unity of Buddhas and beings, without inside or outside. It is wholly manifested at this very moment, in this very place. Gesshu Zenji, 17th-century Zen master
Ignorance, la suprême connaissance (the supreme knowledge)
"Qu'est-ce que le Tao? Au-dessous de toutes les formes, ce qui n'a pas de forme, ce qui voit sans yeux, ce qui guide sans savoir, l'ignorance qui est la suprême connaissance." Paul Claudel (dans Cinq [...]
« Ulysses, » episode 6, reading notes
Homeric link: Hades/Hadès Scene: The Graveyard/la cimetière Hour: 11 a.m./11 heures Organ: Heart/coeur Art: Religion/religion Colors: White, Black/blanc, noir Symbol: Caretaker/gardien With this visit to the underworld - Glasnevin Cemetery, the heart of Dublin, the [...]
juin 2007
Tu es le jardin/You are the garden
L'automne va plus vite, en avant, en arrière, que le râteau du jardinier. --- René Char, extrait du poème A.M.H. (The autumn goes faster, forward, backward, than the gardener's rake.)
The very beginning mind itself
"The very beginning mind itself is the most accomplished mind of true enlightenment." (Avatamsaka Sutra) Present once more after absence imposed by the technicalities of our information age. Im-posed? Only im-position is that of the [...]
mai 2007
« Ulysse, » notes de lecture: Épisode 5
Lien avec Homère: Les Lotophages Scène: le bain Heure: 10 heures Organe: Organes génitaux Art: botanique, chimie Symbole: eucharistie Voici de nouveau Bloom, qui, ayant quitté sa maison, commence à tracer son chemin à travers [...]
Back from the Old Country
Back from an inspiring pilgrimage to the old country, to the mother temple, ZCLA. How marvelous! So many, so much, Simply All one. Have a look at how/who we were/are (thanks to Peter/Kuku): www.stilltv.com/2007/zcla/ *** [...]
Ulysses, reading notes: Episode 5
Homeric link: The Lotus-Eaters/Les Lotophages Scene: The bath /le bain Hour: 10 a.m./10 heures Organ: Genitals/Organes génitaux Art: Botany, Chemistry/botanique, chimie Symbol: Eucharist/eucharistie Here again is Bloom, who, having left home, begins making his way [...]
The all-pervading triptych
Three fundamentals of meditation, which correspond to Joyce's three points concerning appreciation of a work of art (see "Beholding" entry below) and also three points of a triangle, and an egg, for that matter: - [...]
Séminaire « Ulysses » de Joyce
Joyce, le Turc (Ali Baba Bakchich Rahat Loukoum Effendi) Merci à Timour Muhidine (INALCO) et Altan Gokalp (CNRS) de m'avoir reçu dans le cadre de leur séminaire "Traduire la Turquie," où il a été question [...]
avril 2007
Beholding
from Mark Epstein on Buddhism, psychotherapy and art: "...James Joyce talked about something similar when he described the best way to look at a work of art. He used the word "beholding," but I think [...]
Seek the Dharma, not success
Found in Au jour le jour, Ariane Mnouchkine's rehearsal notes for Les Éphémères (The Ephemerals): "Il faut que j'arrive à me dire que mon devoir c'est de chercher le théâtre, ce n'est pas de chercher [...]
