1 Right now, you have a good boat, fully equipped and available — hard to find. To free others and you from the sea of samsara, Day and night, fully alert and present, Study, reflect, and meditate — this is the practice of a bodhisattva.

2 Attraction to those close to you catches you in its currents; Aversion to those who oppose you burns inside; Indifference that ignores what needs to be done is a black hole. Leave your homeland — this is the practice of a bodhisattva.3 Don’t engage disturbances and reactive emotions gradually fade away; Don’t engage distractions and spiritual practice naturally grows; Keep awareness clear and vivid and confidence in the way arises. Rely on silence — this is the practice of a bodhisattva.

4 You will separate from long-time friends and relatives; You will leave behind the wealth you worked to build up; The gues...

• You said:

Self-pity is considered a kind of unhappiness for which one is culpable, while depression is considered “caused” by phenomena

I say:

I think the usefulness of tracing the distinction between self-pity and depression—which you’ve done quite well—starts to dissolve as soon as you try and take the next step.

In most medical practice it is extremely useful to draw distinctions. If somebody strolls into a triage and says that their body is made of glass and will shatter at any moment, the doctor is not likely to offer them care in preference to someone who presents with a tangible complaint, like a severed limb.

Triage distinguishes in order to apply medical care where it can make the most dif...

• And go off somewhere and find great solitude and look into the perfect emptiness of my mind and be completely neutral from any and all ideas. I intended to pray, to, as my only activity, pray for all living creatures; I saw it was the only decent activity left in the world.
• Un satori est un éclair dans la nuit de nos pensées, une porte qui s'ouvrirait en nous, pour nous mener à un pays où le bonheur a été de s'apercevoir que tout n'est qu'un grand et vaste rêve. Ce satori peut survenir lors d'une phrase de quelqu'un, n'importe qui, à la vision d'une oeuvre - naturelle ou humaine -, lors d'un repas, n'importe quand. Il suffit d'ouvrir son coeur au ressentir des choses en tant qu'elles-mêmes et pas uniquement en se basant sur nos perceptions. Je ne puis être plus clair que les maîtres japonais qui l'ont expliqué, tant mon expé...

“The world is a drama, staged in a dream” ― Guru Nanak,

Jorge Luis Borges https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/...

Edgar Mitchell

• In truth, acts of morality and righeteousness simply prevents depression, guilt, anxiety, fear, doubt, etc., in your own life. For when you know that you have lived and are living right, such a knowing prevents guilt, insecurity, low self-esteem and all other mental hindrances that arise out of undisciplined and immoral living. It is just that simple.

Feb. 3 1904

Dear Joe: How life & the world—the past & the future —are looking—to me? As they have been looking to me the last 7 years: as being NON-EXISTENT. That is, that there is nothing. That there is no God and no universe; that there is only empty space, and in it a lost and homeless and wandering and companionless and indestructible Thought. And I am that thought. And God, and the Universe, and Time, and Life, and Death, and Joy and Sorrow and Pain only a grotesque and brutal dream, evolved from the frantic imagination of that insane Thought. Yr friend,

Mark Twain

- Documentaire BBC sur Neuroscience/Libre Arbitre

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i3AiOS4n...

- Références

• Gary Weber

- Articles web résumé:

• http://www.blog-lecerveau.org/blog/2013/...
• http://lecerveau.mcgill.ca/flash/pop/pop... ( a lire)
• http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/laurent-g...

- Citations:

• «Durant certaines opérations neurochirurgicales, on stimule une région appelée aire motrice présupplémentaire, qui semble être concernée par la représentation abstraite et générale de l’action, alors que les patients sont conscients. Ceux-ci décrivent une forte envie de bouger tel ou tel membre: stimuler cette ai...