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Mérite et Patience Links
We are presenting you four kinds of links :
- In the first position, free women, artists, special and touching women, enriching by their feminity or else,
- In second, craftsmen or male artists,
- In third position, centres, magazines, forums or buddhist directories,
- Then, in fourth position, friend's sites,
We remind our kind visitors, in particular beginners on the buddhist path, that it is their responsability to carefully and critically examine any school or center they are drawn to.
The links to centres and schools are only an invitation to explore the diversity of the buddhist horizon in the West, and express no affiliation nor recommendation.
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Art et Tissages
Aline has been an artist for a long time, a painter, specializing in silk, where she learned the secrets in Lyon, but is equally self-taught in all domains.
It was at the heart of the school of Trungpa Kagyu where she learned the practice of dharma, in particular, the principles of Dharma Art, and it was there that our destiny\'s met. She is my Half, the mother of my child and my precious companion on the Path.
She is mysterious, evanescent and at the same time a strong presence.
After a decade of life together, I still have trouble understanding her...
Although she makes many of the products for Mérite & Patience, she has her own site, where one can properly see her creations and her expression blossoming there.
I love you, my Dear.
» Site web
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Elisabeth Lambry-Demange
Elisabeth is a meditating Buddhist who has never stopped practicing drawing. Since 1989, she has consecrated herself to iconography, and since 2000, to the design and painting of tangkas, for which she has been elevated by Karma Yeshe, a master in tangka painting.
She practices, as well, the art of illumination, and is committed to using the techniques and materials traditionally used in each of these disciplines.
She has a great sensitivity to the play of shadow and light, to the written line and its rapport with chromatic variations; her artistic approach is accompanied by her spiritual progress.
She paints icons on demand, as well as watercolours from your photographs. She can be contacted at the following numbers : 33 6 78 60 25 03 ou 33 1 43 56 64 19
Mérite & Patience is honored to welcome her and present her works on "Products - Guests" .
» Site web
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Lama Tcheupel , photographer
A photographer who gives his talent to meditative practice: an open regard, a new vision, a relaxed eye - clear and soft.
If you net-surf out of boredom, and you are not motivated to practice, this site is an absolute must to visit - it will inspire you.
He is accompagnied by Yélha, who is seized by the poetic magic of the photos and lends her words to them.
» Site web
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Vers autre chose
Gilles Maitrot is a contemplative, a photographer with the heart of a shaman. His relationship with photography "is to take by surprise moments of eternity" opening windows "towards something else". Influenced by a contact finding its source in what the South AmerIndians call "Pacha-Mama" or Mother Earth and Northern ones, in their "profession of faith", Mitakuye Oyasin, "I belong to the great family of the living", through contact with the shamanic emanations of our Ancestors.
He has a powerful empathy, full of gratitude and respect in relationship with the ones, "the peoples", who perpetuate these cultures and with whom he has deep and very "precious" contacts.
Eligible, having followed at the same time from 1981 to 1993, several cycles of learning and initiatons at a very advanced level, from authentic Vajrayana yogis of Tibet... the last and dearest to his heart being Khyabjé Dilgo Khyentsé; he still practices assiduously Root-Yoga... in all discretion and solitary humility.
You will find, as well as the albums and several videos, the texts, and notably a presentation of shamanism.
He offers his art of Regional and National Parks, natural sites and all other places which he can share with his visitors.
» Site web
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Jean-Paul Montange, visionary painter
Jean-Paul, praticionner of oriental and western traditions, opens the door for us on a visionary experience. The resulting dissolution between subject/object of the absorption of these paintings unlocks a vivid and elusive true-life.
No contour, no movement is rigid; one can enter a world in each painting. One can but rest speechless.
» Site web
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Peru Jungle Trip with Masha Association
Masha association involves the Shipibo & Ashaninka villagers of Puerto Nuevo, and other dedicated people. They offer the opportunity to visit them and to live as they do, with the natural rhythms of the rainforest where you will have the opportunity to experience their culture, spirituality and healing, as well as their botanical knowledge and environment.
A local commitee, comprised of the most respected members of the village, directly takes care of distributing the benefits that visitors bring to the village so that the entire community is able to prosper and not just a few. The income is invested in medicinal, educational and other supplies that are essential to the village.
Thus some important tools such as big fishing nets or wood saws are bought, in order to allow the village to compete against the commercial fishing and timber companies who deplete the natural resources of the area taking as much as they want, often by unethical means, and leaving little left for the village. Native people have a lot of respect and experience with the forests and the water element, they know and are able to exploit the resources without destroying them.
In this way Masha association is not a charity organization to "help the Indians" as if they were people unable to decide their future by themselves.
Masha is the exclusive partner for the supply of the incense you will find on Mérite et Patience (see "Ambiance").
» Site web
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Way to Tibet
Kunzang studies Vajrayana with PhendÈ Rimpoche, and also studies vipassana and esoterisme with Thai Masters. On his voyages, he has collected astonishing, well-chosen objects and offers to sell them to finance his travels. The benefits are given to an humanitarian association financing projects in Tibet.
This site is worth seeing. There is a surprising abundance of things to discover as well as the personal collection of Kunzang.
» Site web
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Dobeuliou
Creation of web sites in Marseille.
A sober esthetique and elegant animations for a personalised and living site.
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Invite yourself...
If you are an artist or craftsman and feel that your work may have a
place here, don't hesitate, invite yourself...
Buddhist or not, professional or amateur, Mérite & Patience can offer
you a short description and a link.
If our products have inspired you to a possible collaboration, we are
open to all propositions of collective work or other.
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