Jean Marc Calbet

01/12/2024

26/03/2023

Week-ends programmés pour la période été 2023
Lieu : Montbrun Les Bains en Drôme provençale.

Il est demandé de réserver 3 semaines à l’avance, le stage étant annulé ou reporté en fonction du nombre de participants (20€ d’acompte seront demandés pour confirmer votre venue).

Participation : 150 € pour les deux jours

L’hébergement n’est pas compris et chacun apporte son déjeuner que nous prenons en commun.

Dates
Méditation et Qi Gong
24 et 25 juin 2023

22 et 23 juillet 2023

26 et 27 août 2023

23 et 24 septembre 2023

21 et 22 octobre 2023

Contenu :

Qi Gong : pratique des respirations de pouvoir et travail interne Nei Gong

Méditation : approche de Samatha et Vipassana, les deux aspects de la pratique méditative.

Horaires :

De 9h00 à 11h30 le matin et 13h30 à 15h30 l’après-midi

Contact :

Jean-Marc 0671644225 / lamajmarc@mailfence .com

22/09/2020

The world around us is a reflection of the condition of our mind,

we do deeds that build the world for us exactly in the way we

interpret to ourselves the reality of things.

23/07/2020

Some actions, even though they are small, can create a great

amount of happiness or misery. Even a tiny action can cause

enormous results, just a tiny seed become a huge tree.

Some small negative actions can bring much suffering and

some small positive actions can lead to great happiness.

Therefore, we should not overlook even the smallest action as

we try to abandon negative karma and create positive karma.

We should never think that a negative action is so small that it

doesn't matter.

Rather we should realize that it essential to eliminate even

the tiniest negative karma because it can bring immense

suffering.

We should observe in our daily life how we use our three

doors; body, speech and thought,

04/07/2020

We often feel bothered by others, but we have to realize that seeing them as enemies comes from us, not them.

There's no such thing as a born enemy. We make it all up.

There's no such thing as permanent evil.

Actual evil is the negative mind that projects evil outside;

a positive mind will lable the same good thing.

Things always change; permanent evil is totally non-existent.

Also, when we're depressed, we think, "I'm bad, I'm negative, I'm sinful," but that's complete nonsense;an exaggerated extreme.

We have both positive and negative within us; it's simply a question of which is stronger at any given time.

That's what we have to check. Therefore, whenever our mind gives us trouble, it's a sign that we're thinking in extremes.

This is where meditation comes in. Meditation means investigating the mind to see what's going on.

When we do it properly, we purify and bring peace into our unbalanced mind.

19/06/2020

Bodhicitta and cherishing others

The greatest hindrance to enlightenment is the self-cherishing mind, which puts our own happiness ahead of everybody else’s and causes us to act accordingly.

Every personnal problem we have ever experienced has come from this ; so too has every interpersonal problem, from the smallest argument among children to wars between nations.

The more we think about it the more we shall see that the self-cherishing mind is the most dangerous thing in existence.

Yet it can be destroyed and replaced by the mind that cherishes others, putting ourselves last of all. This is the greatest mind we can generate, it gives rise to the state of enlightenment.

We must cultivate the mind that cherishes others more than ourselves.

From seeing that no sentient beings, ourselves included, wants or deserves happiness and freedom from suffering more than any other, a feeling of equality arises. As the desire for these ends is the same, why should we act as if our happiness were more important than anybody else’s ? There can be no logical justification for such an attitude.

Moreover, if all suffering, from the smallest to the greatest, arises from the self-cherishing mind, surely we should wait not a moment longer to destroy it completely. Thinking like this, we engage in the practice of exchanging self for others.

Exchanging self for others is not a physical practice.

It means that so far, since beginningless time, we have been going around harboring the thought deep in our heart,

« My happiness is the most important thing there is. »

It may not be conscious, but its presence is reflected in our actions.

So now, instead of putting ourselves first we put ourselves last :

« My happiness is the least important of all. »

In this way we can destroy the self-cherishing mind.

To improve and practice our commitment, we can also practice the meditation called ‘ Practice of taking and giving’.

We practice this meditation of taking the suffering of others upon ourselves and giving them all happiness.

Visualizing all sentient beings in all the realms undergoing their respective suffering ;

We inhale all those suffering in the form of a black smoke, which smashes the self-cherishing conception at our hearts.

When we exhale we send out pure white light, which reaches all sentient beings, bringing them everything they want and need, temporally and spiritually, all the realisations on the path, from devotion to the spiritual master to enlightenment.

At the end, we visualize all sentient beings in the aspect of buddhas.

Arising from this meditation we may feel that it was of no use, all the sentient beings are still suffering, just as they were when we started our meditation.

But each time we do this meditation we damage our self-cherishing mind and take a giant step towards enligthenment.

LYC

Lama Choephel

29/05/2020

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