Shadowing Practice: Reste en silence… Tu es déjà là où tu dois être ! - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Assieds-toi, ne bouge plus et maintenant écoute vraiment.
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Pas la vidéo, pas ma voix.
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Écoute le silence qui existe déjà autour de toi, celui que tu n'as jamais pris le temps de remarquer.
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La plupart des gens passent leur vie entière à fuir ce silence, à le remplir de bruit,
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of music, of notifications, of thoughts that turn in a loop because they fear of what could be found.
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But this silence, on the silence of Bouddha, is not void.
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It is the only door to a clarity that nothing else can offer.
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Commence.
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I'm not here today to teach you a technique of meditation.
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a respiration to count, a mantra to repeat.
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I came to talk to you about a man who has spent all his life to one question.
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What happens really when the mind becomes silencieux,
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not forced to silence, not disciplinary, but naturally, profondément silencieux?
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This man was called Jiddu Krishnamurti and refused to enter into a tradition, a religion, a title.
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He said one thing, inlassablement, the truth does not come.
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She comes when the spirit stops to go after her.
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Today, on the silence of Bouddha, we will sit with these words.
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And above all, we will do what they really wanted.
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Living here, now.
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while you watch this video.
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Before starting, ask yourself a simple question.
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When comes the last time you have left alone?
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Without screen, without music, without anyone to speak, more than five minutes to the end?
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For most of us, the answer is a little bit.
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We have organized our lives enteously for never to be alone with our own mind.
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The silence is not a problem because it reveals what the noise of the permanent noise allowed us to not look.
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What I'm going to propose today is nothing comfortable, but if you stay until the end, something in you will change.
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Not because I promised you, but because you have been living yourself.
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Sit calm, not because I ask you, but because it's the only way to learn what that is important.
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Every time you hold an actual attention, every time you observe the silence without being able to escape, a learning process.
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Not an intellectual approach, not words that you put in your memory, but a comprehension that changes something in you.
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Assieds-toi, and let's become calm.
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Not only the body, immobile on your chair, but the spirit also.
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That the spirit is not forced, without any force.
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This is an art that almost no one knows.
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And you, in this moment, when you listen to these words, your spirit is calm or already trying to fight against something?
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The next task.
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The next message.
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The next distraction.
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In this immobility, use your attention your attention.
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Your brain must be calm but sensitive to each other, sensitive to this voice, to the noise around you,
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to your own respiration, without being under pressure,
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without tension, without any external influence to the outside of the direction.
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The brain needs a calmness because without this calmness, there can't be any lucidity.
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and at the moment when your brain becomes absolutely calm, you are not sensitive, never engorded.
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An space opens and it is in this space, thanks to this tranquility, that the brain becomes finally capable of a real rest.
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It is there the essential.
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Rest calm.
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Remarque something.
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Since you started this video, how many times have your brain already quit this room?
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combien de fois est-tu parti ailleurs vers une liste de tâches
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une conversation d'hier une inquiétude pour demain sans même temps rendre
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compte ce n'est pas un reproche c'est simplement ce que fait
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un esprit qui n'a jamais appris à s'arrêter et c'est précisément pour cela que that what we do here is so rare.
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Come on by listening to the outside world.
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Really listening.
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Not listening in back-plan while you think about something else.
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Listening is an art.
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Listening to a sound, really, to the end, without anything to add, is an extraordinary thing.
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When you listen, without judging, without interpreting, without immediately colling an etiquette on what you hear.
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You become exceptionally sensitive.
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The mind is fully awake when it listens, simply, without identifying, without translating what it feels in familiar words.
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Because it's precisely that that allows us to listen with simplicity.
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Every time you watch attention and observe silence, you learn.
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L'apprentissage véritable naît de l'attention et de la présence dans le silence.
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Écouter dans un silence absolu.
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Cela veut dire entendre bien davantage.
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Voir bien davantage.
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C'est dans cet état que commence véritablement l'apprentissage.
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Pense à la dernière fois où tu as vraiment entendu la pluie.
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Sans penser immédiatement.
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Il pleut.
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I will have to take a pair of shoes.
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Or the last time you heard the voice of someone you love.
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Without already preparing your response, while they still talk.
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It's rare, isn't it?
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Almost all our time of listening is actually the time passed to react, to anticipate, to judge, never to listen.
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Really.
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Now, turn your attention to the inside, And you will see that in this silence, the sound outside and the inner world are not more than one.
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You are still trying to resist.
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Or you start to, you are only a moment to let go of a moment.
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In this state of tranquility, observe what the thought of the thought.
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If you listen to your own thoughts, your exigences towards you-même, the fear that you sometimes port without calling it.
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You will see, without trying to change anything, without intervening, how much your mind becomes extraordinarily clear.
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You will not search for what you observe.
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You will not search for saying, I should not think of it.
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Or, I should be more calm.
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This permanent correction, this judgment that we hold on our own thoughts, is, he-même, a form of noise.
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maybe the most capable of all.
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Observe, simply.
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Let the thought to happen, then, to open it up, like a wave that takes away without needing to repoussage.
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We have passed the first part of this video to simply observe,
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listen, let the thought to happen without intervening.
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If you are still there, if you have not said to want to get your phone out,
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it is that something in you already feels like there is something to discover here.
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So continue, a little deeper.
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Krishnamurti said that the spirit should be aware of himself.
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Sans choix, sans direction imposée, sans essayer de façonner ce qui se passe en lui.
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Tous les problèmes peuvent trouver une résolution à la lumière de ce silence.
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Mais cette lumière ne vient pas du mouvement millénaire de la pensée, ni même d'une connaissance de soi acquise par l'effort.
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Cette lumière ne s'allume ni par le temps, ni par un acte de volonté.
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Elle survient à travers la méditation, et dans la méditation, la ligne qui te sépare de moi,
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qui sépare chaque personne d'une autre, disparaît.
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Cette lumière du silence dissout la connaissance du temps-moi.
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Le silence, alors, est la liberté elle-même.
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Regarde ce que tu appelles habituellement «moi ».
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These are your opinions, your memories, your fears, the image that you project to others, the one you repeat to yourself.
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All this is made of thought, accumulated day after day, and this accumulation, as reassuring as it is,
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is also what separates you from others, from the present moment, from you.
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It's not a punishment to let it be a moment, it's a shock.
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Essaie, one time this week, to rest five minutes without nothing to do,
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without nothing to listen, without nothing to listen to others that already what you already entoure, and observe simply what it does.
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Many confuse this dissolution of the I with a loss, almost a loss, as if,
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in making this inner voice which is coming and comparing everything, we would disappear.
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It's the opposite.
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What does not disappear, it's not you.
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It's the weight you carry, without knowing that you could be posed how many times you have mixed control with peace,
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while the real peace doesn't require no control at all?
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When we remain fully attentive, if we are going too far, we are free from all the thought of the thought.
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With its fears, its pain, its despair, and it's the base of everything else,
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peu à peu le contenu de la conscience s'épuise se vide
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de son poids habituel et une libération authentique se produit pense
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à combien d'énergie dessus dépense chaque jour à maintenir une version
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de toi même au travail dans tes relations même seul face à ton téléphone cette énergie ne va null part d'utile.
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Elle entretient une image.
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Et le silence dont je te parle n'est pas une pause dans cet effort, c'est la fin de l'effort lui-même,
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au moins pour un instant.
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Ce n'est pas un hasard si tant de personnes se sentent épuisées,
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sans avoir rien fait physiquement de particulier dans leur day.
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The fatigue comes from this permanent surveillance that the spirit exerts on himself.
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The silence is nothing.
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It is, at the contrary, the only true rest.
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Krishnamurti went further.
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The spirit, said he, is not a sentiment, nor a emotion, nor an emotion, nor a particular condition.
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It must be silent, without intention of getting anything else in return, without searching, without going to continue.
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And when we understand that there is nothing to do,
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our own perception will act as it is possible to act today.
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We have been conditioned, since childhood, to think that every problem calls an action, an effort.
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But try to remember an moment where a real clarity came, not in forcing a reflection,
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but just when you had cessed to think, in the shower, in the walk, just before you dorm.
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And if, for once, you completely stopped trying to do something in your inner life,
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for him, la véritable meditation est l'inaction totale de l'esprit.
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Un esprit qui perçoit simplement ce qui est, sans s'empêtrer dans les idées issues de son propre passé.
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Il ne faut jamais porter son attention sur ce qui « devrait être », disait-il, mais uniquement sur ce qui « est ».
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Si l'esprit peut offrir toute son attention à ce qui « est », sans créer aucun opposé conceptuel, il découvre what is truly love.
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The silence, like love, is invisible.
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It has no frontiers with the noise.
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We can't continue, nor force it to come.
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It is here that most of the methods of meditation, as well intentioned as they, are trompers of direction.
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Compter your respirations.
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Repet a mantra.
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All this reste un effort une volonté qui essaie de dompter
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une autre partie d'elle-même ce dont je te parle est différent
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un silence sans méthode parce que toute méthode devient tôt ou
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tard une nouvelle prison un esprit qu'on force à la tranquillité
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ne fait que résister et toute résistance est en elle-même agitation
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bruit mais l'esprit qui est naturellement tranquille sans y être forcé
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fait continuellement l'expérience du silence même ses pensées même ses mots
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existent à l'intérieur de ce silence jamais en dehors de lui
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seul cet esprit là peut connaître un bonheur qui n'est pas le simple reflect of his own desires.
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Remarque the difference between the pleasure and this pleasure-là.
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The pleasure, you follow.
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Un purchase.
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A distraction.
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A validation.
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He's getting it until you get it.
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And you already courier towards the following.
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This pleasure-là, he, he, doesn't continue.
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He's simply there.
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When nothing comes to cover.
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In other words, we have nothing to do.
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For Krishnamurti, this silence, in which the who medites is totally absent, is the true meditation.
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To make the spirit remain silent, he says, it is the great art.
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The state of complete action is, in reality, the most high form of action.
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I know that all this can seem abstract, But think about a lake perfectly immobile.
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It is not looking for the sky.
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It is just because it is calm.
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As soon as a ride appears, the reflection is burning.
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Your mind works the same way.
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It is not in agiting the surface that you will see more clear, but in the left to be posed.
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No one would say to a lake immobile that it is nothing.
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But it is what we think of our own spirit, until it stops to produce the absolute silence.
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This immensity, the innumerable, the limit, must be lived directly.
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The spirit cannot conceive it.
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It must be immobile, without any requirements, without any desire.
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It is not that it can exist what some call God, and others simply the reality.
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Peu import the name that you give him, Krishnamurti, he-même, refused to put this experience in a word, a religion, a case.
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He wanted to build no school, no system of faith.
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He said that the truth is a country without chemin,
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no route, no tradition, Aucun guru ne peut y mener.
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Parce que le moment où tu suis un chemin tracé par quelqu'un d'autre, tu n'es déjà plus dans la vérité, mais dans l'imitation.
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C'est une position radicale, et c'est peut-être la plus honnête, qu'un maître spirituel ait jamais tenu.
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La vérité, disait Krishnamurti, ne se cherche pas.
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Elle survient naturellement.
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Lorsque l'esprit se vide de tout son savoir, of all his thought, of all his experience accumulated.
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Through the thought, we constantly engendramos a form of honestness against ourselves.
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The meditation is the liberation of this honestness.
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The vidage of the content of the consciousness.
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The end of the thought, which turns in a loop.
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Look how many times, in a day, You tell a version of you,
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to your entourage, and, above all, to you.
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This is not a moral judgment.
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It's simply what makes an esprit charge of images, of fear of being seen as it is.
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The silence that I speak from the beginning doesn't need this armor.
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There's no one to defend whatever else.
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in other words, the meditation is the movement of honesty who is from silence.
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So let me ask you one last thing before we close this parenthesis.
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The next time you feel the desire to fill silence in a empty room, in a conversation, in your own head.
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What would happen if, for once, you left it simply be, not by discipline, not by technique,
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just to see what remains when nothing comes to cover.
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So, before closing this video, give you a moment.
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You have nothing to note, nothing to retenir par cœur.
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Aucune leçon à appliquer demain matin comme une nouvelle discipline.
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Si tu essaies de transformer ce que nous venons de vivre en une méthode de plus, tu auras manqué l'essentiel.
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Ce silence n'est pas un outil que tu ranges dans une boîte pour t'en servir plus tard.
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Il est déjà là, maintenant.
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Disponible à chaque instant où tu cesses ne serait qu'une seconde
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de courir après quelque chose ferme les yeux si tu le
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peux encore quelques secondes après cette vidéo ne cherche rien n'attend
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rien laisse simplement ce qui est là être reste dans ce
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silence un peu plus longtemps ressent la plénitude de cet espace
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qui ne connaît ni le mois ni le temps ni le
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conflit en ce moment précis il n'existe ni hier ni demain
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tout ce qui existe c'est le silence pénétrant et infini de cet instant présent c'est tout namasté

Why This Video Is Perfect for English Speaking Practice

This clip isn’t just a meditation guide—it’s a goldmine for english speaking practice. The slow, deliberate pace mirrors how native speakers share thoughtful ideas, making it easy to follow and mimic. The mix of simple phrases (“Sit calm”) and deeper concepts (“a clarity that nothing else can offer”) gives you a chance to practice both everyday speech and more expressive language. Plus, the natural pauses and conversational tone make it ideal for shadow speak—you can easily match the rhythm without feeling rushed.

Breaking Down Natural Speech: What Makes It Sound Real

Let’s look at a few lines that feel like real, unscripted talk:

  • “The silence is not a problem because it reveals what the noise of the permanent noise allowed us to not look.” This sentence uses a casual structure (“allowed us to not look” instead of “let us avoid looking”) that native speakers often use in relaxed conversations. It’s imperfect but authentic, showing that fluency isn’t about perfection.
  • “For most of us, the answer is a little bit.” Short and direct, this phrase skips formal words (“somewhat” or “to a small extent”) to sound like how we talk with friends. It’s a great example of natural simplification in English.
  • “Since you started this video, how many times have your brain already quit this room?” The metaphor “quit this room” is vivid and relatable, showing how native speakers use imagery to make ideas stick. It’s a fun phrase to practice for better storytelling.

A Simple Shadowing Routine to Try Today

Ready to turn this video into a shadowing site for your practice? Here’s a 10-minute routine:

  1. Watch once, then pause. Listen to a 30-second clip (try the opening: “Assieds-toi… remarquer”). Focus on the speaker’s pauses and tone—do they rise or fall at the end of sentences?
  2. Repeat out loud, mimicking every detail. Copy the speed, volume, and even the “ums” (yes, really!). Don’t worry about mistakes—this is about feeling the language, not getting it “right.”
  3. Record yourself. Use your phone to capture your version. Compare it to the original—did you miss a pause? Did your tone match the speaker’s calmness?
  4. Do it again, but faster. Once you’re comfortable, try repeating the clip without pausing. This trains your brain to think and speak in real time, a key skill for learn english with videos practice.

Pro tip: Do this daily for a week, and you’ll notice your speech sounds more natural—like you’re having a conversation, not reading a script. Remember, shadow speak is about imitation first, mastery later—so be kind to yourself and have fun with it!

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.