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  1. Samatha

    L’idée du sacrifice, de l’expiation, de la souffrance rédemptrice, est si profondément ancrée dans nos esprits que nous ne pouvons pas imaginer la possibilité d’être heureux sans rien faire, gratuitement.

    *

    Le dévot reçoit la beauté dans la mesure où il se perd lui-même. Pourtant, le nibbāna (nirvāna, en sanskrit) ne donne rien. Il est ce qu’il est, au-delà de l’être et du non-être. Les rayons du soleil brillent pour tous, en sont illuminés ceux qui ouvrent les volets de leur esprit. Ici encore le langage nous trompe. Une phrase comme « le soleil brille » semble vouloir dire qu’un sujet – le soleil – se mettrait à briller par un acte réfléchi et volontaire. En réalité, il n’y a ni sujet ni attribut. « Ça brille », devrait-on dire, ou mieux encore, « ça soleille ».

    *

    Je m’intéresse à ces aspects subtils de la psychologie expérimentale bouddhiste qu’on appelle les nimitta ou signes de concentration. Il y en a trois : le parikamma-nimitta, ou signe préparatoire, qui n’est autre que l’objet de concentration lui-même, par exemple la sensation physique du souffle située au niveau des narines ; l’uggaha-nimitta, ou signe d’apprentissage, qui est une image mentale du signe préparatoire. Par exemple, l’image réflexe de la sensation du souffle, ou bien celle d’une pièce de soie blanche ou d’autres couleurs ou formes. Il est à noter que différents signes peuvent apparaître à différentes personnes selon leurs différentes perceptions. Il est donc vain de vouloir obtenir le même signe qu’une autre personne, si elle venait à nous le décrire, ce qui est d’ailleurs fortement déconseillé en dehors des entretiens individualisés avec son instructeur ; enfin le patibhāga-nimitta, ou signe réfléchi, qui est une image mentale très claire et lumineuse pouvant ressembler, selon les textes anciens, « à l’étoile du soir, un rubis circulaire, une perle, ou encore au disque de la lune ». Ici encore, les différentes formes de nimitta ne peuvent être reproduites en raison des différentes perceptions des personnes, mais aussi du changement de perception se produisant chez la même personne. Tandis que le signe d’apprentissage n’est pas d’une grande clarté, dit Pa-Auk, le signe réfléchi est, quant à lui, parfaitement lumineux.

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    « Si vous faites quelque chose dans le seul but d’obtenir un certain gain, cela vous causera de la souffrance. Essayez vous-même ! Vous voulez rendre votre esprit paisible ? Alors asseyez-vous et essayez de le rendre paisible : vous souffrirez ! Essayez ! »

    Ajahn Chah

    Alain Durel dans Samatha, la pratique de la sérénité. Carnet de voyage au Sri-Lanka

    Une pièce musicale de Matthew Halsall – Samatha

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_f-8pDR6xE

    #acceptation #AlainDurel #apprentissage #attention #beauté #bouddhisme #carnetDeVoyage #concentration #conscience #dévot #entretienPersonnalisé #espritPaisible #esprits #gain #gratuitement #imageMentale #imaginer #instructeur #Nibbāna #nimitta #nirvāna #nonêtre #PaAuk #parikammaNimitta #patibhāgaNimitta #pratique #psychologieExpérimentale #réalité #sacrifice #Samatha #sérénité #sensationPhysique #signe #souffle #souffrance #souffranceRédemptrice #SriLanka #uggahaNimitta #Vivre
  2. Genetics of a 4,000-year-old sacrifice: what Shimao reveals about power in ancient China

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  3. Genetics of a 4,000-year-old sacrifice: what Shimao reveals about power in ancient China

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  4. Genetics of a 4,000-year-old sacrifice: what Shimao reveals about power in ancient China

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  6. Genetics of a 4,000-year-old sacrifice: what Shimao reveals about power in ancient China

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  7. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    They were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it’s not murder if you do it for a god).

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8504…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #pratchett #terrypratchett #discworld #holywar #killing #knife #murder #religion #religiousintolerance #sacrifice #truebelievers

  8. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    They were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it’s not murder if you do it for a god).

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8504…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #pratchett #terrypratchett #discworld #holywar #killing #knife #murder #religion #religiousintolerance #sacrifice #truebelievers

  9. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    They were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it’s not murder if you do it for a god).

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8504…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #pratchett #terrypratchett #discworld #holywar #killing #knife #murder #religion #religiousintolerance #sacrifice #truebelievers

  10. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    They were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it’s not murder if you do it for a god).

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8504…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #pratchett #terrypratchett #discworld #holywar #killing #knife #murder #religion #religiousintolerance #sacrifice #truebelievers

  11. CW: IndoPol

    "Democracy and will doom oneday"

    A growing & concerning sentiment among a demography that's too to have suffered under a or had to anything for their . It's delusional to expect a to take wise, impartial & just decisions or even respect your after you foolishly hand them .

    works where others don't! But you can't be lazy & hand to someone else!

  12. CW: IndoPol

    "Democracy and #Constitution will doom #India oneday"

    A growing & concerning sentiment among a demography that's too #privileged to have suffered #persecution under a #dictatorship or had to #sacrifice anything for their #freedom. It's delusional to expect a #dictator to take wise, impartial & just decisions or even respect your #HumanRights after you foolishly hand them #authority.

    #Democracy works where others don't! But you can't be lazy & hand #governance to someone else!

  13. CW: IndoPol

    "Democracy and #Constitution will doom #India oneday"

    A growing & concerning sentiment among a demography that's too #privileged to have suffered #persecution under a #dictatorship or had to #sacrifice anything for their #freedom. It's delusional to expect a #dictator to take wise, impartial & just decisions or even respect your #HumanRights after you foolishly hand them #authority.

    #Democracy works where others don't! But you can't be lazy & hand #governance to someone else!

  14. CW: IndoPol

    "Democracy and #Constitution will doom #India oneday"

    A growing & concerning sentiment among a demography that's too #privileged to have suffered #persecution under a #dictatorship or had to #sacrifice anything for their #freedom. It's delusional to expect a #dictator to take wise, impartial & just decisions or even respect your #HumanRights after you foolishly hand them #authority.

    #Democracy works where others don't! But you can't be lazy & hand #governance to someone else!

  15. As I understand, yoga, meditation, equality, & viewing the forest as sacred came from the Indus Valley Civilisation (proto-Dravidian) and AASI/tribal peoples, in contrast to the caste-hierarchical, fire-sacrificing, horse-and-plains culture of the Vedic Indo-Aryans.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashupat

    #yoga #meditation #equality #sacred #indusvalley #ivc #harappa #aasi #asi #tribal #indigenous #india #bharat #subcontinent #desi #caste #sacrifice #vedic #vedas #indoaryan #dravidian

  16. As I understand, yoga, meditation, equality, & viewing the forest as sacred came from the Indus Valley Civilisation (proto-Dravidian) and AASI/tribal peoples, in contrast to the caste-hierarchical, fire-sacrificing, horse-and-plains culture of the Vedic Indo-Aryans.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashupat

    #yoga #meditation #equality #sacred #indusvalley #ivc #harappa #aasi #asi #tribal #indigenous #india #bharat #subcontinent #desi #caste #sacrifice #vedic #vedas #indoaryan #dravidian

  17. As I understand, yoga, meditation, equality, & viewing the forest as sacred came from the Indus Valley Civilisation (proto-Dravidian) and AASI/tribal peoples, in contrast to the caste-hierarchical, fire-sacrificing, horse-and-plains culture of the Vedic Indo-Aryans.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashupat

    #yoga #meditation #equality #sacred #indusvalley #ivc #harappa #aasi #asi #tribal #indigenous #india #bharat #subcontinent #desi #caste #sacrifice #vedic #vedas #indoaryan #dravidian

  18. As I understand, yoga, meditation, equality, & viewing the forest as sacred came from the Indus Valley Civilisation (proto-Dravidian) and AASI/tribal peoples, in contrast to the caste-hierarchical, fire-sacrificing, horse-and-plains culture of the Vedic Indo-Aryans.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashupat

    #yoga #meditation #equality #sacred #indusvalley #ivc #harappa #aasi #asi #tribal #indigenous #india #bharat #subcontinent #desi #caste #sacrifice #vedic #vedas #indoaryan #dravidian

  19. As I understand, yoga, meditation, equality, & viewing the forest as sacred came from the Indus Valley Civilisation (proto-Dravidian) and AASI/tribal peoples, in contrast to the caste-hierarchical, fire-sacrificing, horse-and-plains culture of the Vedic Indo-Aryans.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashupat

    #yoga #meditation #equality #sacred #indusvalley #ivc #harappa #aasi #asi #tribal #indigenous #india #bharat #subcontinent #desi #caste #sacrifice #vedic #vedas #indoaryan #dravidian

  20. A quotation from Orwell

    I suggest that the real objective of Socialism is not happiness. Happiness hitherto has been a by-product, and for all we know it may always remain so. The real objective of Socialism is human brotherhood. This is widely felt to be the case, though it is not usually said, or not said loudly enough. Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another. And they want that world as a first step. Where they go from there is not so certain, and the attempt to foresee it in detail merely confuses the issue.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1943-12-20), “Can Socialists Be Happy?” “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper [as John Freeman]

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/47663/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #aspirations #brotherhood #cause #contentment #details #dissent #happiness #hope #love #loveyourneighbor #materialism #physical #planning #protest #sacrifice #socialism #struggle #torture #utopia #war

  21. A quotation from Orwell

    I suggest that the real objective of Socialism is not happiness. Happiness hitherto has been a by-product, and for all we know it may always remain so. The real objective of Socialism is human brotherhood. This is widely felt to be the case, though it is not usually said, or not said loudly enough. Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another. And they want that world as a first step. Where they go from there is not so certain, and the attempt to foresee it in detail merely confuses the issue.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1943-12-20), “Can Socialists Be Happy?” “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper [as John Freeman]

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/47663/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #aspirations #brotherhood #cause #contentment #details #dissent #happiness #hope #love #loveyourneighbor #materialism #physical #planning #protest #sacrifice #socialism #struggle #torture #utopia #war

  22. A quotation from Orwell

    I suggest that the real objective of Socialism is not happiness. Happiness hitherto has been a by-product, and for all we know it may always remain so. The real objective of Socialism is human brotherhood. This is widely felt to be the case, though it is not usually said, or not said loudly enough. Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another. And they want that world as a first step. Where they go from there is not so certain, and the attempt to foresee it in detail merely confuses the issue.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1943-12-20), “Can Socialists Be Happy?” “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper [as John Freeman]

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/47663/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #aspirations #brotherhood #cause #contentment #details #dissent #happiness #hope #love #loveyourneighbor #materialism #physical #planning #protest #sacrifice #socialism #struggle #torture #utopia #war

  23. A quotation from Orwell

    I suggest that the real objective of Socialism is not happiness. Happiness hitherto has been a by-product, and for all we know it may always remain so. The real objective of Socialism is human brotherhood. This is widely felt to be the case, though it is not usually said, or not said loudly enough. Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another. And they want that world as a first step. Where they go from there is not so certain, and the attempt to foresee it in detail merely confuses the issue.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1943-12-20), “Can Socialists Be Happy?” “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper [as John Freeman]

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/47663/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #aspirations #brotherhood #cause #contentment #details #dissent #happiness #hope #love #loveyourneighbor #materialism #physical #planning #protest #sacrifice #socialism #struggle #torture #utopia #war

  24. A quotation from Orwell

    I suggest that the real objective of Socialism is not happiness. Happiness hitherto has been a by-product, and for all we know it may always remain so. The real objective of Socialism is human brotherhood. This is widely felt to be the case, though it is not usually said, or not said loudly enough. Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another. And they want that world as a first step. Where they go from there is not so certain, and the attempt to foresee it in detail merely confuses the issue.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1943-12-20), “Can Socialists Be Happy?” “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper [as John Freeman]

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/47663/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #aspirations #brotherhood #cause #contentment #details #dissent #happiness #hope #love #loveyourneighbor #materialism #physical #planning #protest #sacrifice #socialism #struggle #torture #utopia #war

  25. Boris #Pistorius, German Defense Minister widely seen as a supporter of #Ukraine is willing to #sacrifice Ukranian #civilians lives rather than provide the necessary weapons (Taurus long range missiles) that Ukraine needs to stop Putin.

    #friendsOfUkraine like this result in dead #Ukranians.

    Imagine what Trump and Republicans are doing to help Putin kill innocent civilians. #evil

  26. Boris #Pistorius, German Defense Minister widely seen as a supporter of #Ukraine is willing to #sacrifice Ukranian #civilians lives rather than provide the necessary weapons (Taurus long range missiles) that Ukraine needs to stop Putin.

    #friendsOfUkraine like this result in dead #Ukranians.

    Imagine what Trump and Republicans are doing to help Putin kill innocent civilians. #evil

  27. Boris #Pistorius, German Defense Minister widely seen as a supporter of #Ukraine is willing to #sacrifice Ukranian #civilians lives rather than provide the necessary weapons (Taurus long range missiles) that Ukraine needs to stop Putin.

    #friendsOfUkraine like this result in dead #Ukranians.

    Imagine what Trump and Republicans are doing to help Putin kill innocent civilians. #evil

  28. Boris #Pistorius, German Defense Minister widely seen as a supporter of #Ukraine is willing to #sacrifice Ukranian #civilians lives rather than provide the necessary weapons (Taurus long range missiles) that Ukraine needs to stop Putin.

    #friendsOfUkraine like this result in dead #Ukranians.

    Imagine what Trump and Republicans are doing to help Putin kill innocent civilians. #evil

  29. A quotation from John Kennedy

    Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom promised our nation a new political and economic framework. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal promised security and succor to those in need. But the New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not to their pocketbook — it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.

    John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) American politician, author, journalist, US President (1961–63)
    Speech (1960-07-15), “The New Frontier,” Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, Democratic National Convention, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles

    More about this quote: wist.info/kennedy-john/25736/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #kennedy #jfk #johnkennedy #johnfkennedy #challenge #history #inspiration #pride #sacrifice #campaignpromise

  30. A quotation from John Kennedy

    Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom promised our nation a new political and economic framework. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal promised security and succor to those in need. But the New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not to their pocketbook — it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.

    John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) American politician, author, journalist, US President (1961–63)
    Speech (1960-07-15), “The New Frontier,” Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, Democratic National Convention, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles

    More about this quote: wist.info/kennedy-john/25736/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #kennedy #jfk #johnkennedy #johnfkennedy #challenge #history #inspiration #pride #sacrifice #campaignpromise

  31. A quotation from John Kennedy

    Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom promised our nation a new political and economic framework. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal promised security and succor to those in need. But the New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not to their pocketbook — it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.

    John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) American politician, author, journalist, US President (1961–63)
    Speech (1960-07-15), “The New Frontier,” Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, Democratic National Convention, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles

    More about this quote: wist.info/kennedy-john/25736/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #kennedy #jfk #johnkennedy #johnfkennedy #challenge #history #inspiration #pride #sacrifice #campaignpromise

  32. A quotation from John Kennedy

    Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom promised our nation a new political and economic framework. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal promised security and succor to those in need. But the New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not to their pocketbook — it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.

    John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) American politician, author, journalist, US President (1961–63)
    Speech (1960-07-15), “The New Frontier,” Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, Democratic National Convention, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles

    More about this quote: wist.info/kennedy-john/25736/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #kennedy #jfk #johnkennedy #johnfkennedy #challenge #history #inspiration #pride #sacrifice #campaignpromise

  33. "IT IS A JUST 3-DAY SPECIAL OIL OPERATION, RUSSIANS HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT! LOOK AT THE MAGNIFICIENT BRAVENESS OF THE WW2 SOLDIERS AT #STALINGRAD, JOYFULLY TAKING BULLET INSTEAD OF THEIR BROTHERS: JUST SIPHON THE CAR BESIDE! #RUSSIAN #MUTUALHELP #SACRIFICE #BEAUTY" - Pladimir Vutin

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4rthx262ziuroqnyjukamxez/post/3mpj3nyyc3c2t

  34. "IT IS A JUST 3-DAY SPECIAL OIL OPERATION, RUSSIANS HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT! LOOK AT THE MAGNIFICIENT BRAVENESS OF THE WW2 SOLDIERS AT #STALINGRAD, JOYFULLY TAKING BULLET INSTEAD OF THEIR BROTHERS: JUST SIPHON THE CAR BESIDE! #RUSSIAN #MUTUALHELP #SACRIFICE #BEAUTY" - Pladimir Vutin

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4rthx262ziuroqnyjukamxez/post/3mpj3nyyc3c2t

  35. As a sacrificial lamb I know the heart of the sacrificed on the altar of obedience. It is not for me to judge. It is for me live. That space that I carry out into the world echoes the cries of all those whose existence was doubted, then separated, then persecuted, then erased.
    medium.com/prismnpen/trans-wom

    #LGBTQ #Transgender #Bible #Sacrifice

  36. As a sacrificial lamb I know the heart of the sacrificed on the altar of obedience. It is not for me to judge. It is for me live. That space that I carry out into the world echoes the cries of all those whose existence was doubted, then separated, then persecuted, then erased.
    medium.com/prismnpen/trans-wom

    #LGBTQ #Transgender #Bible #Sacrifice

  37. As a sacrificial lamb I know the heart of the sacrificed on the altar of obedience. It is not for me to judge. It is for me live. That space that I carry out into the world echoes the cries of all those whose existence was doubted, then separated, then persecuted, then erased.
    medium.com/prismnpen/trans-wom

    #LGBTQ #Transgender #Bible #Sacrifice

  38. As a sacrificial lamb I know the heart of the sacrificed on the altar of obedience. It is not for me to judge. It is for me live. That space that I carry out into the world echoes the cries of all those whose existence was doubted, then separated, then persecuted, then erased.
    medium.com/prismnpen/trans-wom

    #LGBTQ #Transgender #Bible #Sacrifice

  39. As a sacrificial lamb I know the heart of the sacrificed on the altar of obedience. It is not for me to judge. It is for me live. That space that I carry out into the world echoes the cries of all those whose existence was doubted, then separated, then persecuted, then erased.
    medium.com/prismnpen/trans-wom

    #LGBTQ #Transgender #Bible #Sacrifice