Category: Francais

Spiritual Craving – January 20, 2014 Meditation (With French Translation)

French translation appears following the English I thought I would title this daily meditation craving, but my first inclination was to title is Spiritual Lust. I’ll admit it might have been more eye-catching and attractive with lust in the title. According to the dictionary lust has other definitions from sexual connotations. Lust can mean intense longing, enthusiasm, eagerness along with unbridled sexual desire. In 1972 the Polaroid SX-70 camera was introduced and it revolutionized photography…

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Chanting The Odaimoku – January 19, 2014 Sunday Dharma Talk (With French Translation)

French translation appears after the English Good morning. Thank you to all of you here in the temple and to those of you who have joined in to our live video stream. Also, thank you to those who will read this at some other time. Thank you for your efforts to practice the Dharma thereby enabling you to attain enlightenment, thereby establishing your happiness as well as the happiness of those in your environment. In…

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Ohigan Time to Focus on the Six Paramitas (with French Translation)

A French translation/interpretation done by Luca Guccione follows at the end of this post. My deepest appreciation to Luca for donating his time and effort towards making this accessible to French language readers. With Gassho, Ryusho. Twice a year as the equinox occurs we celebrate Ohigan. This is a time during which we pay particular attention to our practice of the Six Paramitas, for the five days surrounding the equinox. While we are supposed to…

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Ohigan and Effort the 4th Paramita (with French Translation)

Today is the Equinox, the heart of the Ohigan season, and today I’ll write about Effort. The French translation for this post appears at the end. Translation done by Luca Guccione By some accounts the Six Paramitas came about as a Mahayana response to what they felt was an over emphasis on development of self by only adhering to the Four Noble Truths and the Eight-Fold Path, which are primarily focused on self. Effort as…

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