Les Gouttes de Dieu - Tadashi AGI et Shu OKIMOTO

• Un disciple de Henri Jayer qui dit avoir davantage appris des dégustations de celui-ci que de ses méthodes de production.
• Un "village" comme le Vosne-Romanée et un grand cru tel l'Echezeaux sont censés être aussi différents que le jour et la nuit en matière de goût et de bouquet.
• La qualité de la terre et de l'environnement de la vigne : le terroir.
• Menthe, cannelle, orange, cerises noires, prunes, fraises, mûres.
• Tout ce qu'ils veulent, c'est pouvoir proposer de bons vins dont ils sont fiers. Les vrais vignerons se soucient peu de leur bénéfice...

The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle

Chapter One: You Are Not Your Mind

• Just become intensely conscious of the present moment : this is the essence of meditation. 
• For example, every time you walk up and down the stairs in your house or place of work, pay close attention to every step, every movement, even your breathing. Be totally present. Or when you wash your hands, pay attention to all the sense perceptions associated with the activity: the sound and feel of the water, the movement of your hands, the scent of the soap, and so on.
• Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment?
• The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire. All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.
• Be the Buddha, "the awakened one", which is what the word buddha means.

Chapter Two: Consciousness: The Way Out Of Pain

• The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it.
• Your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others.
• Stay present and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you.
• Once you have understood the basic principle of being present as the watcher of what happens inside you - and you "understand" by experiencing it - you have at your disposal the most potent transformational tool.
• You are in the here and now, while your mind is in the future. This creates an anxiety gap.
• The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Chapter Three: Moving Deeply Into The Now

• To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be.
• The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may be not aware of it, is that it forces them in the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.
• Make it your practice to withdraw attention from past and future whenever they are not needed.
• The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.
• Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation of person that causes you to react. Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future.
• If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence.
• All forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
• See if you can give more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.
• So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action - just give attention to the action itself.

Chapter Four: Mind Strategies For avoiding The Now

• To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
• Then, with increasing frequency, you choose to have the focus of your consciousness in the present moment rather than in the past or the future, and whenever you realize that you had lost the Now, you are able to stay in it not just for a couple of seconds, but for longer period as perceived from the external perspective of clock time.
• And the Buddha taught that the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving.
• "Am I at ease at this moment?" "What's going on inside me at this moment?"
• When you have been practicing acceptance for a while, as you have, there comes a point when you need to go on the next stage, where those negative emotions are not created anymore.
• As you know, separation is the basis for the ego's sense of identity.
• To complain is always nonacceptance of what is.
• If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. Then accept the consequences.
• Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity.
• If you have to, you can move fast, work fast, or even run, without projecting yourself into the future and without resisting the present. Enjoy the flow of energy, the high energy of that moment.
• "You should be working. You are wasting your time". Observe the mind. Smile at it.
• Die to the past every moment. You don't need it.
• Become aware of your breathing. Feel the air flowing in and out of your body.
• Ask yourself what "problem" you have right now.
• The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.
• Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity.
• Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.
• "Gain the world and lose your soul" as Jesus puts it.

Chapter Five: The State of Presence

• "Be like a servant waiting for the return of the master" says Jesus.
• "The teacher and the taught together create the teaching".
• To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

Chapter Six: The Inner Body

• You can study and talk about honey for as long as you like, but you won't really know it until you taste it.
• Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. Become aware of the stillness. When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.
• Being in touch with your inner body creates a clear space of no-mind within which the relationship can flower.

Chapter Seven: Portals Into The Unmanifested

• Vous êtes ici pour permettre à la mission divine de l'univers de se déployer. Voilà à quel point vous êtes important.

Chapter Eight: Enlightened Relationships

• egoic : "relatif à l'ego", "qui concerne le moi"
• Salvation is not elsewhere in place or time. It is here and now.
• True salvation is a state of freedom - from fear, from suffering, from a perceived state of lack and insufficiency and therefore from all wanting, needing, grasping and clinging. It is freedom from compulsive thinking, from negativity, and above all from your past and future as a psychological need.
• You do it now or not at all.
• And it is also easier to recognize the source of negativity in your partner than to see it in yourself.
• The need to be right.
• To disidentify from the pain-body is to bring presence into the pain and transmute it. To disidentify from thinking is to be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior, especially the repetitive patterns of your mind and the roles played by the ego.
• First you stop judging yourself; then you stop judging your partner.
• This may sometimes happen during physical intimacy, or when you are both witnessing the miracle of childbirth, or in the presence of death, or when one of you is seriously ill - anything that renders the mind powerless.
• You can then express your thoughts and feelings to each other as soon as they occur, or as soon as a reaction comes up, so that you do not create a time gap in which an unexpressed or unacknowledged emotion or grievance can fester and grow. Learn to give expression to what you feel without blaming.
• Another indicator is how a person behaves in difficult or challenging situations or when things "go wrong".
• Every challenge that it contains is actually a disguised opportunity for salvation.
• Tao Te Ching
• The mind resists, fights for control, uses, manipulates, attacks, tries to grasp and possess and so on.
• You also realize that you are responsible for your inner space now - nobody else is - and that the past cannot prevail against the power of the Now.
• And the stronger the ego, the more distant you are from your true nature.
• Full attention means full acceptance.

Chapter Nine: Beyond Happiness And Unhappiness There Is Peace

• Failure lies concealed in every success, and success in every failure.
• All forms are impermanent.
• There will be periods when you are highly active and creative, but there may also be times when everything seems stagnant, when it seems that you are not getting anywhere, not achieving anything.
• The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion as long as you are identified with the mind.
• All conditions are highly unstable and in constant flux, impermanence is a characteristic of every condition, every situation you will ever encounter in your life.
• The same condition that was good yesterday or last year has suddenly or gradually turned into bad.
• This means that your happiness and unhappiness are in fact one. Only the illusion of time separates them.
• It is simply recognizing the nature of things, so that you don't pursue an illusion for the rest of your life.
• I have learned to allow the present moment to be and accept the impermanent nature of all things and conditions. Thus I have found peace.
• You may not be happy, but you will be at peace.
• All negativity is resistance.
• Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen (sombre) resentment to suicidal despair.
• Becoming more present.
• Wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present.
• Offer no resistance.
• Forgive yourself for not being at peace.
• Although you can enjoy sensory pleasures, the craving for sensory experience is gone, as is the constant search for fulfillment through psychological gratification, through feeding the ego.

Chapter Ten: The Meaning of Surrender

• redemption: rachat
• surrender: capitulation
• abide: demeurer
• grief: chagrin

• Doing one thing at a time and focusing on one thing at a time.
• Focus not on the 100 things that you will or may have to do at some future time but on the one thing you can do now.
• Then you do what you have to do, whatever the situation requires.