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Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Latest: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

by Pier Marton | May 6, 2011 | Art, Asia, Care, Death, Film, Photo, Poet

Refresh your knowledge of that beautiful language that Turkish is – and of Ceylan’s skils as a master storyteller. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snm5kHomfSo Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...

Never Again – Not Only For Jews But For Everyone!

by Pier Marton | May 2, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Asia, Care, Dance, Death, France, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Magyar, Media, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women

Yom HaShoah Haaretz Editorial =================== Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Day, which is being marked today, is above all a day of remembrance. Today is the day on which the Holocaust is to be recalled, and on which the memory of those who perished and the...

Jews: Free to Question Passover, God & Progress (+ what it is to be “a Jew”)

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Antisemitism, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, France, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, KeyText, Magyar, Middle-East, Mystery, Native, Now, Politics, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Spectacle, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

¿Passover???oss?d? How can one pass over the fact that the 20th Century was the most murderous so far? The University of Hawai has compiled the disasters, whether through war or political regimes, to a grand total of 262 million killed. Click to email a link to a...

Ajahn Chah ?? ??????? (Achaan Chah) Citations/Quotes

by Pier Marton | Apr 16, 2011 | Asia, Death, Health, Highlights, Mystery, Quotes

[In English & en français (ma traduction)] Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures....

Online Mindfulness Bell

by Pier Marton | Apr 16, 2011 | Asia, Care, Eco, Ego, Health, Ideas, Music, Poet, Site, Sound, Sounds, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Wars, Women

Inspired by the teaching of Thich Nhat Hanh. The option to stop whatever one does to check how anchored one is. Stop to consciously breathe in and out three times with the sound of the bell. With time interval, exact time, or random interval options. Click to email a...

Ai Weiwei’s Challenge

by Pier Marton | Apr 14, 2011 | Archi, Art, Asia, Human Rights, Politics

A petition for his release from the Chinese authorities. And Dangerous Arts, a letter by Salman Rushdie in the New York Times.An excerpt —>The lives of artists are more fragile than their creations. The poet Ovid was exiled by Augustus to a little hell-hole on the...

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus