Le paradoxe est le miroir de l'âme !

La nature de la réalité n'entre pas dans les limites de la logique et ne peut donc être expliquée autrement que par des paradoxes.

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
Dzogchen et tantra

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

Conoscenza del Sé

La conoscenza del Sé è une cosa facile, la più facile di tutte le cose.

Il Sé è qualcosa di assolutamente reale, anche per un uomo semplice. Si potrebbe dire : un frutto nella mano aperta è al suo confronto un'illusione.

Il Sé che risplende nel cuore come sole, è reale e onnipervasivo. Si rivela non appena il falso immaginare si disperde e non resta più macula alcuna. L'immaginazione é infatti il motivo per cui appaiono forme illusorie : il mondo e l'Io, che sembrano cosi reali come il Sé, il quale solo davvero dura, immutabile e vero. Se il Sé risplende, le tenebre si disperdono; il dolore svanisce, resta solo beatitudine.

Il pensiero 'Io sono il corpo' è il filo attorno al quale, come perle, si infilano rappresentazioni di ogni genere. Se pero ti immergi nel profondo domandando : 'Chi sono io e da dove vengo ?', allora le rappresentazioni svaniscono e irrompe splendente la conoscenza del Sé come'IO-IO' nella caverna del cuore. Questo è paradiso, quiete, dimora di beatitudine.

A che giova sapere tante cose e non sapere nulla del Sé ? Che cosa resta da conoscere per uno che ha conosciuto il Sé ? Da chi ha se stesso riconosciuto il Sé come reale, l'unico Uno spontaneamente risplendente nella miriade di Sé, dall'intimo brilla in costui la luce del Sé. Questa è reale manifestazione della grazia, fine dell'Io e inizio di beatitudine suprema.

Per sciogliere le catene del destino insieme a tutte le sue relazioni e liberarsi dal terribile ciclo di nascite e morti questa via è incomparabilmente più facile delle altre. Percio stabilisciti nella quiete e intima a lingua, mente e corpo di tacere. Allora quel che da te stesso risplende sorgerà in te. Questa é l'esperienza suprema. Ogni paura svanisce. Questo è il mare infinito della perfetta beatitudine.

'Annamalai' il monte insormontabile, l'Uno trascendente in tutti noi, é l'occhio nascosto nell'occhio della mente. Osserva l'occhio e tutti i sensi, che a loro volta illuminano il firmamento e tutti gli elementi intorno. E il firmamento spitituale al cui cospetto compare il firmamento della mente. Risplende all'interno del cuore, che é privo di ogni moto e pensiero, e davanti allo sguardo costantemente quieto resta rivolto all'interno come QUELLO. Annamalai splende di luce propria, tuttavia la grazia del maestro é soprattutto necessaria. Abbandonati allora fiducioso al Sé, e beatitudine sarà il tuo guadagno.

Shrî Ramana Maharshi

We propose a complete change of point of view and a real characterizati- on that solve that problem; in this framework, being non-monotonic for a relation is equivalent to being a proper extension of a consequence relation, a precise structural condition binding those two relations.

Il meurt lentement

En souvenir de mon fils Carlo qui est mort brutalement le 9 décembre 2005, quelques heures seulement après m'avoir souhaité un bon anniversaire ...

Il meurt lentement
celui qui ne voyage pas
celui qui ne lit pas
celui qui n'écoute pas de musique
celui qui ne sait pas trouver grâce à ses yeux

Il meurt lentement
celui qui détruit son amour propre
celui qui ne se laisse jamais aider

Il meurt lentement
celui qui devient esclave de l'habitude
refaisant tous les jours le mêmes chemins
celui qui ne change jamais de repère
ne se risque jamais à changer la couleur de ses vetements
ou qui ne parle jamais à un inconnu

Il meurt lentement
celui qui évite la passion
et son tourbillon d'émotions
celles qui redonnent la lumière dans les yeux
et reparent les coeurs blessés

Il meurt lentement
celui qui ne change pas de cap lorsqu'il est malheureux au travail ou en amour
celui qui ne prend pas de risques pour réaliser ses rêves
celui qui, pas une seule fois dans sa vie, n'a fui les conseils sensés

Vis maintenant !
Risque-toi aujourd'hui !
Agis tout de suite !
Ne te laisse pas mourir lentement !
Ne te prive pas d'être heureux !

Jacques Derrida

KulturSPIEGEL

"We now know the Solar System doesn't just evolve due to gravitation."

Light puts asteroids into a spin

Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News

The shower of solar particles can make asteroids spin faster

The constant bombardment of billions of tiny particles from the Sun is shaping the Solar System, studies have shown.

As the fine solar shower rains down on objects, such as asteroids, it can steadily alter their orbit and spin.

Although the mechanism that describes the effect has been known for many years, it has never been seen.

Now, separate studies published in the journals Nature and Science have observed and measured the tiny stellar shoves on two spinning asteroids.

They reveal that both are gradually starting to spin faster and faster, which could eventually create new Solar System landmarks.

"If we can spin up an asteroid so fast, there's a really good chance that these objects will fly apart," said Dr Stephen Lowry, a planetary astronomer at Queen's University Belfast and lead author of one of two Science papers.

In this case, the fragments could form a binary asteroid where two objects orbit each other, he said.

"This is a phenomenon that gradually affects the evolution of the Solar System," said Dr Mikko Kaasalainen of the University of Helsinki, who is an author of the Nature paper.

Random spin

The Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (Yorp) effect is named after the astronomers who made key observations that led to the theory.

It describes the torque, or rotational force, created when light particles hit the surface of an object, causing it to heat up.

As the asteroid rotates, its brightness increases and decreases, which is directly related to how fast it's spinning Stephen Lowry

"As the heat is re-emitted it exerts a gentle recoil effect," said Dr Lowry.

"An analogy would be if there was a child and they threw a ball forward, there would be a slight recoil effect."

The theory was proposed in order to explain various Solar System phenomena which show peculiar regular behaviour.

For example, astronomers looking at a cluster of asteroids known as the Koronis family, which is located in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, noticed that the larger fragments spun in two distinct alignments.

The cluster was thought to have been the result of a catastrophic collision more than two billion years ago which would have blown erratically spinning fragments throughout the surrounding area.

Without the Yorp effect realigning the objects, this random motion would still be seen today.

The existence of other phenomenon like binary asteroids can also be explained by YORP.

Tiny changes

But although astronomers had several clues to the effect's existence, no direct evidence had ever been seen.

Now, two teams have analysed separate distal spinning asteroids and have been able to quantify how much their spin is changing. They have also been able to predict the possible future fate of the rocky lumps.

The team from Finland created computer models of Apollo 1862

A team lead by Dr Lowry and Patrick Taylor of Cornell University used optical and radar telescopes to monitor an asteroid known as 2000 PH5, which makes regular near-Earth passes.

At its closest, the 114m-diameter (374ft) lump comes within 1.8 million km (1.1 million miles) of Earth.

"As the asteroid rotates, its brightness increases and decreases, which is directly related to how fast it's spinning," said Dr Lowry.

By combining four years of optical information with radar to work out the size and shape of the object, the team was able to measure the increasing spin of the asteroid and therefore the size of the Yorp effect acting on PH5.

"It currently rotates every 12 minutes and we detected a change of one millisecond per year," said Dr Lowry. "It's a tiny, tiny effect but it's acting over millions of years."

The team predicts that over the next 15 million to 40 million years the asteroid will gradually speed up until it is turning over every 20 seconds.

At this point, the rocky mass may fly apart forming a cluster of smaller asteroids or a new binary system.

Large implications

A team from Finland has calculated the changes to another asteroid, 1862 Apollo, a 1.4km-wide (0.9 miles) near-Earth object that is approximately 340 million km (210 million miles) away.

I don't want to call it a dawn of a new age of astronomical sciences but it will certainly spark a whole range of new studies Stephen Lowry

Instead of making new observations, the researchers looked at historical snapshots of the object dating back to 1982. From these they were able to extract light information that could be checked against a theoretical model to discount other effects.

The result was also suitably minute.

"The current rotation period is about three hours and the change is only four thousandth of a second per year," said Dr Kaasalainen.

Although both results were almost intangibly small, the implications are much larger, especially for models of the evolution of the Solar System, he said.

"We must include this radiation effect because it can transport asteroids between different orbital states and effect their rotation," he said.

"We now know the Solar System doesn't just evolve due to gravitation."

Dr Lowry also believes it is a key finding for looking back through history.

"Asteroids are the leftovers from the start of the Solar System, so by understanding these asteroids, we may get an idea of what the Solar System was like before the planets formed," he said.

"I don't want to call it a dawn of a new age of astronomical sciences but this detection will certainly spark a whole range of new studies."

USAToday.com Refashions Itself as a Social Network

USA Today is unveiling a massive overhaul of their web site that adds a number of great features. The notable additions include: reader comments on every story, the ability to create a profile page that can be shared with others, citizen journalist photos, story tagging and digg-like recommendation buttons.

This is exactly the direction USA Today needs to follow. However, it doesn't go quite far enough. In addition to building these features, the media need to bridge their communities to the ones where we already spend our time. RSS, widgets and embedded content would help here. For example, USA Today should let us add our blog, Twitter or Facebook feeds or even embedded YouTube vids to our profile pages.

Connecting communities is so easy today with web services and it would go a long way toward making the their site - or any site for that matter - stronger. Hopefully we'll see this happen soon.

Sony unveils its new 3D universe

Playstation 3 gamers will be able to meet, chat and share content with friends inside a 3D universe.

"It's about community, collaboration and customisation," said Sony's Phil Harrison at the Game Developers Conference, in San Francisco.

Gamers can buy furniture and clothes, while publishers and retailers are also expected to offer 3D spaces.

Mr Harrison said the games industry had to learn from the success of the web 2.0 movement.

"We want to start a movement called Game 3.0. It's about emerging entertainment, powered by the audience at the centre of the experience."

Gamers can create avatars - online versions of themselves - and buy new clothes and create their own homes as a 3D social networking service.

Dynamic advertising - including high definition video - can be pushed into the 3D universe.

"There will be individual locations dedicated to game publishers, game developers, and titles. Over time it will extend to non-game brands. The industry is on the threshold of a new era of creativity, collaboration, communication and commerce embedded into an experience to empower games,"

Mr Harrison said.

Darren Waters
Technology editor, BBC News website, San Francisco

KeNSEI, KaNSEI

A sword saint
A high degree of perfection
A moral dimension

The multiple realizability of mental states

Mental ink or mental paint ?
Psychological feeling or image of an object ?
How to translate feelings about an object into perceptual design elements ?

Building shapes within a required variety produces new orders of emotional invariants.

Ecoute, o bien-aimé !
Je suis la réalité du monde, le centre et la circonférence,
J'en suis les parties et le tout.
J'en suis la volonté établie entre le Ciel et la Terre,
Je n'ai crée en toi la perception que pour être l'objet de ma perception.

Si donc tu me perçois, tu te perçois toi-même.
Mais tu ne saurais me percevoir à travers toi.
C'est par mon regard que tu me vois et que tu te vois,
Ce n'est pas par ton regard que tu peux m'apercevoir.

Bien-aimé !
Tant de fois t'ai-je appelé, et tu ne m'as pas entendu.
Tant de foi me suis-je à toi montré, et tu ne m'as pas vu.
Tant de fois me suis-je fait douce effluve, et tu ne m'as pas senti,
Nourriture savoureuse, et tu n'as pas goûté.
Pourquoi ne peux-tu m'atteindre, à travers les objets que tu palpes,
Ou me respirer à travers les senteurs ?

Pourquoi ne me vois-tu pas ? Pourquoi ne m'entends-tu pas ?
Pourquoi ? Pourquoi ? Pourquoi ?

Pour toi mes délices surpassent toutes les autres délices,
Et le plaisir que je te procure, dépasse tous les autres plaisirs.
Pour toi je suis préférable à tous les autres biens,
Je suis la Beauté, je suis la Grâce.

Aime-moi, aime-moi seul.
Perds-toi en moi, en moi seul.
Attache-toi à moi.
Nul n'est plus intime que moi.
Les autres t'aiment pour eux-mêmes,
Moi je t'aime pour toi.
Et toi, tu t'enfouis loin de moi.

Bien-aimé !
Tu ne peux me traiter avec équité,
Car si tu te rapproches de moi,
C'est parce qu'alors je me suis rapproché de toi.

Je suis plus près de toi que toi-même,
Que ton âme, que ton souffle.
Qui donc parmi les créatures
Agirait de cette manière avec toi ?
Je suis jaloux de toi contre toi
Je ne te veux à personne d'autre,
Ni même à toi-même.
Sois à moi, pour moi, comme tu es en moi,
Sans même que tu en aies conscience.

Bien-Aimé !
Allons vers l'union
Et si nous trouvions la route
Qui mène à la séparation.
Nous détruirions la séparation.
Allons la main dans la main.
Entrons en la présence de la Vérité.
Qu'elle soit notre juge
Et imprime son sceau sur notre union
A jamais

Ibn 'Arabî
Livre des Théophanies
Chant final