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January 2, 2013 Learning how to be kind to ourselves is important. When we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn’t just ourselves that we’re discovering. We’re discovering the universe. When we discover the buddha that we are, we realize that everything and everyone is Buddha. We discover that everything is awake, and everyone is awake. Everything and everyone is precious and whole and good. When we regard thoughts and emotions with humor and openness, that’s how we perceive the universe.
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Voici un lien vers un concert jouissif donné à Sabadell en Espagne en mai 2012 pour souligner le 130 anniversaire de la fondation de Banco Sabadell qui démontre brillamment le pouvoir rassembleur de la musique. Cent musiciens et chanteurs de la Vallès Symphony Orchestra, the Lieder et les chorales Amics de l’Òpera et Coral Belles Arts ont participés à cette performance.
Je remercie Élizabeth Gélinas pour le lien! Réjouissant!
Thanks to Thérèse Chabot who send me a link to American author Elizabeth Gilbert’s talk about creativity and the myth of the genius artist. I really enjoyed the lecture, Elizabeth Gilbert’s humour and wit in discussing the artist persona.
Here is the link: http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
This week I was offered a radical new perspective on one of my favorite book which I used to read to my sons when they were little. I’m still destabilized by it! The solitary universe of Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a desertic planet where the vegetation has almost disappeared except for a huge baobab tree threatening to devor the planet itself, according to Marie-Louise Von Franz ( Jung’s precious collaborator), translates the author’s interior loneliness and his thirst for feelings.
Marie-Louise Von Franz shows how the giant baobab devouring the planet the Little Prince expresses how the author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was actually prisoner of a maternal complex.
Marie-Louise Von… Continue reading
While getting my panier bio at Potager Samson yesterday, a patch of green under the little snow caught my eye in the field near by. It is the Romanesco broccoli (chou Romanesco),previously totally unknown to me. Its very sophisticated and intriguing shape triggered my imagination. It represents a fractal form. I found a great page by John Walker discussing this surprising vegetable and fractal forms. Many thanks to him. I am also including in the gallery six amazing close-up pictures of the Romanesco cabbage from him. http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/Romanesco/
“Fractal forms—complex shapes which look more or less the same at a wide variety of scale factors, are everywhere in nature. From the fluctuations in the cosmic… Continue reading
Aujourd’ hui, à la suggestion de Julie Dostie, j’ai demandé à certains enfants de deuxième années de l’école Saint-Jacques de me parler des animaux nocturnes qu’ils connaissent. Pendant que nous dormons à point fermés certains animaux vivent leur vie de nuit. Pour stimuler leur imagination je leur ai montré une reproduction de la gravure Le Sommeil de la raison produit des monstres (Caprice 43, 1797-1798) de Francisco De Goya. Cette gravure illustre la nature irrationnelle et fantastique des rêves. Les enfants se sont mis à exécution pour faire la première partie de ce qui deviendra éventuellement un projet d’enfumage avec de la craie de cire et de l’encre de Chine. C’est la parade des papillons de nuit, chouettes,… Continue reading
