"Objects and desires exist in me as in others. So accepting, let them be transformed." This technique can be very helpful. When you are angry, you always justify your anger, but when someone else gets angry you always criticize. Your madness is natural, but others' madness is just "perversion." Whatsoever you do is good -- or even if it was not good, it was "necessary to do." You always find some rationalization for it. The same is done by others, but then the same rationalization is not given. If you are angry, you say it was necessary to help the other. If you [...]

Mon expérience personnelle du Satori Par Ati Dion Assis pendant cinq jours à réfléchir et à m’exprimer sur ce même Koan : dis-moi qui tu es !  Que j’aime ça.  Cinq jours assis face à diverses personnes, cinq minutes à exprimer, cinq minutes à écouter l’autre, pour des séquences de 40 minutes à la fois, à me poser cette même question.  Question qui, dans certains cas, m’interpelle poétiquement et me séduit, me cajole, m’entraîne, mais à d’autres moments, me décape jusqu’aux os, m’enrage, me peine, me jette par terre et m’irrite au plus haut point.  Quelques [...]

I do not know anything about even the first AIDS, and you are asking me about the last AIDS! But it seems I will have to say something about it. And in a world where people who know nothing about themselves can talk about God, people who know nothing about the geography of the earth can talk about heaven and hell, it is not inconceivable for me to say something about AIDS, although I am not a physician. But neither is the disease now called AIDS just a disease. It is something more, something beyond the limitation of the medical profession. As I see it, it is not a disease [...]