Que nenni ! you can't step into the same river twice ... le moi et la rivière évoluant sans cesse nous dit le texte ci-dessous .... Rien ne serait immuable sauf peut-être dans le domaine des travaux ménagers, où la poussière se dépose immuablement sur les objets, où les toiles d'araignées certes jamais les mêmes mais jamais vraiment non plus tout à fait différentes, se retissent inlassablement impliquant chez la ménagère ou le (.... pas de masculin pour ce mot) les mêmes gestes à refaire, si possible, gracieux,
inspirés et intelligents pour nettoyer de fond en comble la maison. Ces mêmes gestes à accomplir dans la joie et la sérénité, c'est mon programme ce jour, d'où que je n'aie pas le temps de traduire ce texte pour les non anglophones qui se rabattront si la curiosité leur en dit sur les traductions du Net :
From each moment to the next a river is never the same. Nor
are riverbanks, nor are you. So no action can ever be repeated exactly.
How can a river be ‘the same’? The same as what? The same as
it was an hour ago? But the hour-ago river no longer exists; it has
vanished without a trace, except the trace it left in memory. How can we
compare the river now to the river that no longer is? The one is
actual, the other virtual. Yet such is the power of memory that we
mistake the virtual for the real.
The river now is living, flowing, winding, sparkling,
rippled, deep. But these are words, and words themselves are based on
memory. They give the illusion of continuity, of ‘realness’, but life is
constantly flowing, ever new.
Life is whole but the mind, like a jigsaw, divides it into
rivers and riverbanks, this time and next time, movement and stillness,
me and you. Forgetting that these are only words, it believes there’s
really a ‘river’, really a ‘me’. Then it tries to work out how the
pieces fit together. They don’t, because words can never encompass life.
You cannot step into the same river twice because there was
never a ‘river’, there is no ‘you’; there is only the endless current of
life.
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