La Paix du Coeur
N talked about Buddhism tonight, in French.
Peace is not the contrary of fighting, he said. It's more important as a state of being.
We started talking about what constituted "l'être humain" (the human being) and he pointed at his stomach. "Les émotions," he said. I laughed, "Elles sont là?" He was quite serious and continued to locate "le mental" and "le cæur" at his head and chest. 4 stages of evolution starting from "le corps physique" - and he insisted the development took human 1,000,000 years, with the last 200,000 years for the highest development of "the heart".
"Sadly most of the people stay at the level of the emotions, or just physical." Mind is quite separated from heart for him and how to use the latter, to make the right decisions in all situations, is where he thinks the heart of Buddhism is.
This is my fifth lesson in French with N. Le mot du jour: "Laisser-aller!"
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