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L'engouement quasi mystique qu'a suscité la mort de Johnny Hallyday m'a incité à réfléchir sue un phénomène qui m'est apparu comme un substitut de religiosité...
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La mort de Johnny Halliday et ses obsèques le 8 décembre 2017
Il y a eu comme une sorte de fièvre médiatique lors de la mort – pourtant attendue – de notre chanteur national Johnny Halliday (Jean-Philippe Smet). Il venait de décéder un jour, après Jean d’Ormesson, et le dernier événement a en…
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J'ai toujours pensé que la véritable communication ne pouvait se faire qu'en face-à-face et que les communications virtuelles - si communes aujourd'hui sur les réseaux sociaux - ne sont que de déplorables pis-aller. Pourtant, à la réflexion, il me semble qu'il convient de corriger ce point de vue par trop simpliste. Certes, rien ne vaut la richesse d'une rencontre réelle où les paroles ne sont qu'un élément d'un ensemble où tout peut devenir signifiant. Les mots s'accompagnent de toute une…
ContinueAnnette,
J'espère que tu as eu un beau voyage/vacance.
Je voudrais acheter quelques exemplaires de la traduction en français du livre 'Teh feeling Buddha". Est-ce que tu peux me laisser savoir ou/comment je peux acheter ce livre svp ?
Merci d'avance!
Namo Amida Bu
Vajrapala
Dear Annette,
C'est fantastique que tu as traduit un livre de Dharmavidaya en français! Quand je viens à Eleusis, je vais surement essayer à l'acheter. ça m'aidera beaucoup avec les expressions. Il a vendu bien en France le livre ? Est-ce qu'il y a des Bouddhistes Terre Pure en France et dans les environs de Eleusis ? Tu es au courant s'il y a d'autres textes de Dharmavidaya qui sont déjà traduit en français ?
How are you living together in Oasis ? Have you shared practice and foods etc... ?
My friend and I also did try to begin a co-housing for Buddhists before we did build our house, buth we could not realise it and now we did build on our own in the Pays des Collines, près de Lille et Tournai.
Namo Amida Bu
Vajrapala
Thousand thanks Annette. I'm so happy you could help me/us. I'm also very pleased to be able to contact you. Est-ce que tu est une vraie française ? Ma deusième langue est le français, donc normallement mon français doit etre mieux que mon anglais....
Thank you for your suggestions for translation, this looks very good.
I will send you some more questions next days as we will have some gaderings next weekend.
I did translate the whole Morningservice and a woman of the area who speaks French did help me, but as she is not so common with Buddhism, the meaning off the translations seems not always so right.
I'm very gratefull for the help you offer. Namo Amida Bu
Dear Annette,
Thank you for offering help with French on your profile. I really need some help. I live in Belgium en I am dutch speaking, but live in a French speeking part of Belgium. I'm offering here meditation in French and have to translate everything in French; My French is not so fantastic, as well as my english is not so fantastic, but it goos rather well. i have now some people who help me with translations, but some terms are quiet difficult to translate. Could you help me a bit please ?
f.e. foulish being : much used in Purelandbuddhism, how should you translate this in frensh ? être fou ? ou être ignorant ? And this one :
"There are beings with little dust in their eyes
Who are wasting through not hearing the Dharma"
We cannot find a good translation.....
Thanks to heop if possible!
Lovely greetings,
Vajrapala
Thank you for the pictures, the assistance with the mouse, the plumbing, the cake..... for being you and such a good neighbour. Much love.
Hi, welcome, nice to meet you in this way.
Namo Amida Bu
Welcome to Eleusis. See you tomorrow :-)
Posted by David Brazier on January 11, 2019 at 9:43 3 Comments 1 Like
I’ve always been interested in groupwork. Recently I’ve been facilitating a rather challenging group. It includes an older man who is enjoying his retirement, an outdoor type who does not say so much but clearly regards the other members as wimps, a writer who has an irritating obsession with etymology, one I think of as the wanderer whose life problem seems to be that of never having learnt to settle down, who tells endless entertaining stories of travels, love affairs and so on, and I was…
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https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2018/12/13/full-speech-sir-ivan-rogers-on-brexit/
I found this piece tremendously sensible, well-reasoned, and above all, realistic.
Posted by David Brazier on December 14, 2018 at 18:52 6 Comments 1 Like
Carol drove me into Ottawa at midday on Wednesday 12th. I had spent the morning being interviewed and making a short film. In Ottawa we had lunch at the vegetarian restaurant and then went on to the airport where she dropped me off. I was to take a local plane to Montreal then fly to Paris and on to Bilbao in Spain with Air France, due to arrive at nine in the morning local time the following day. F would meet me in Spain and take me back to stay with him in a village near Vittoria.…
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I'd like to try to say something about real life, which is the only thing that is really interesting.
I have been a bookworm ever since I learnt to read, which was not until I was seven years old. By that time I had already had important spiritual experiences. I was a rather odd child. Many ideas went through my head that tended to set me apart from other children.
Now,…
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