Desjardins, Arno

The eldest son in the family of Jacques Guerin-Desjardins ( fr. Jacques Guérin-Desjardins ) and Antoinette Negres ( Antoinette Nègre ), professing Protestantism . A graduate of the Paris Lyceum Henry IV ( Lycée Henri-IV ) and the Institute for Political Studies . October 25, 1956 was married to Denise (born 1923); together they opened the French ashram in 1974, the first in the history of Auvergne . After his wife left, he entered into a second marriage in 1996 - with Veronica Loisleur ( Véronique Loiseleur ), a friend since 1986.

Professional career

Director of French radio and television broadcasting (from 1952 to 1974).

Spiritual path

The beginning of the spiritual path of Arno Desjardins was laid in the Parisian groups of Gurdjieff . There he met his first wife. According to Dejardin himself, starting with the Gurdjieff circles, the search for spirituality became fundamental in his life throughout 1949-1974 ^[3] . He went through the Cistercian monasteries, Japanese Soto-Zen monasteries, Hindu ashrams , khanaks of the Afghan Sufis (before the war), Tibetan gompas and in apprenticeship with individual Buddhist rinpoche . In 1965-1974 he was a student of the Indian sage, the Bengali Swami Prajnanpad ( Swami Prajnanpad ; 1891-1974), under whose guidance he practiced atma yoga ("spiritual yoga"; Eng. Atma-yoga ; French Adhyatma yoga ). The Indian guru also taught other French people (a total of nine people), including Dr. Frederick Lebouillet ^[4] .

In his works, Desjardins talks about a person’s ability to achieve enlightenment , a person’s ability to understand his own nature and live forever free from fear . The path to enlightenment - sadhana among Hindus - is the only type of human activity that does not encounter obstacles. That one does not have to be victims of situations, but their students; not seekers of truth, but errors, with the goal of correcting them. That there are two laws of reality. The first is the law of difference. It is expressed by a simple phrase "if there are two (two), then both are different." The second is the law of change: every moment is not like the next. Desjardins teaches that truth is not discussed, and human thinking does not create truth, but something else. Freed from life of sensory emotions, a person remains with a constantly present sense of rational understanding of the heart . The greatest illusion is to imagine ourselves as the creator of what is happening, while through people it creates a single Life, a single cosmic Energy. There are only situations, and problems are created by human thinking. The solution to problems is not in solving them, but in overcoming them through personal, internal transformation. If you do not live with the thought that peace, good and tranquility can exist here and now, then they will never come. And live not the future, but the present. ^[five]

Documentary Films

Hinduism

• Ashrams , 1959

Tibetan Buddhism

• Le Message des Tibétains: Le Bouddhisme (1/2) and Le Message des Tibétains: Le Tantrisme (2/2) , 1966
• Himalaya, Terre de Sérénité: Le Lac des Yogis (1/2) and Himalaya, Terre de Sérénité: Les Enfants de la Sagesse (2/2) , 1968

Zen buddhism

• Zen: Ici et Maintenant (1/2) and Zen: Partout et Toujours (2/2) , 1971

Sufism

• Soufis D'Afghanistan: Maître et Disciple (1/2) and Soufis D'Afghanistan: Au Cœur des Confréries (2/2) , 1974

Editions

• Ashrams, Grands Maîtres de l'Inde , Paris, La Palatine, 1962; Albin Michel , 1982, réed. 2002; ISBN 978-2226178213
• Yoga et Spiritualité, L'Hindouisme et Nous , P., La Palatine, 1964
• Le Message des Tibétains , P., La Table ronde, 1966
• Les Chemins de la Sagesse (volumes I, II, III) , P., La Table ronde, 1968, 1970 et 1972
• Monde moderne et Sagesse ancienne , P., La Table ronde, 1973
• Adhyatma Yoga, À la Recherche du Soi I , P., La Table ronde, 1977; ISBN 978-2266203005
• Le Védanta et l'Inconscient, À la Recherche du Soi III , P., La Table ronde, 1979; ISBN 978-2266203029
• Au-delà du moi, À la Recherche du Soi II , P., La Table ronde, 1979
• Tu Es Cela, À la Recherche du Soi IV , P., La Table ronde, 1979; ISBN 978-2266203036
• Un Grain de Sagesse , P., La Table ronde, 1983; ISBN 978-2710300717
• Pour une Mort sans Peur , P., La Table ronde, 1983; ISBN 978-2710304944
• Pour une Vie Réussie, un Amour Réussi , P., La Table ronde, 1985; ISBN 978-2266223409
• Le Baladin et la Sagesse (co-authored with Jean-Pierre Calvet) , P., La Table ronde
• La Voie du Cœur , P., La Table ronde, 1987; ISBN 978-2266179720
• L'Audace de Vivre , P., La Table ronde, 1989; ISBN 978-2266224123
• Approches de la Meditation , P., La Table ronde, 1989; ISBN 978-2266177559
• En Relisant les Évangiles (co-authored with Véronique Loiseleur) , P., La Table ronde, 1990
• La Voie et ses Pièges , P., La Table ronde, 1992; ISBN 978-2710305378
• Zen et Védanta , P., La Table Ronde, 1995; ISBN 978-2710306726
• Dialogue à Deux Voies (co-authored with Lama Denis Teundroup) , P., La Table ronde, 1995
• L'Ami Spirituel (co-authored with Véronique Loiseleur) , P., La Table ronde, 1996; ISBN 978-2290040058
• Regards Sages sur un Monde Fou (Entretiens avec Gilles Farcet) , P., La Table ronde, 1997
• La conversion intime , Alice, 2000
• Retour à l'Essentiel , P., La Table ronde, 2002; ISBN 978-2266220743
• Les formules de Swâmi Prajnanpad - Commentées par Arnaud Desjardins , La Table ronde, 2003
• Bienvenue sur la Voie , P., La Table ronde, 2005; ISBN 978-2266171618
• Lettres à une jeune disciple , P., La Table ronde, 2006; ISBN 978-2710329077
• Spiritualité. De quoi s'agit-il? (co-authored with Emmanuel Desjardins), P., La Table ronde, 2009; ISBN 978-2710331124
• La Traversée vers l'autre rive (co-authored with Véronique Desjardins), P., Accarias / L'Originel, 2010
• Oui, chacun de nous peut se transformer (co-authored with Jean-Louis Cianni), P., Albin Michel, 2010
• La paix toujours présente , P., La Table ronde, 2011; ISBN 978-2710367642

• Lebuyer, Frederick

• The site of the Desjardins ashram in Saint-Laurent-du-Pap (Ardeche) (French)