Kesa Spirit

The Buddha’s kesa is not for me.
Not just for me.
The triple recitation opens up to the vision of a garment which, if wraped around my shoulders,
also extends over those of my family, my friends, everyone, in the end.

The kesa is the prayer of the Buddha as there is a prayer of Christ.
In both cases, openness to something greater than oneself, to a wisdom from beyond.

The Kesa Sutra is expressing the great compassion, the one tha opens to the refuge of all. Clothing, it materializes prayer. It manifests itself among us.

The kesa is the prayer that takes shape.
Through the Kesa, we wrap ourselves in prayer.
It is a great joy to discover that we are not alone under the kesa,
As an untrained eye might think.

The kesa is the clothing of “all beings, however numerous they may be”.
It carries out his teaching outside of texts and speeches.

I don’t have a kesa
I sew miserably
And don’t really understand anything about the arrangement of pieces of fabric.

I sometimes wrap a fabric around my shoulders, such as a scarf. As my teacher did at the time, for “the energy of the diagonal”, he said. We did these sitting sessions dressed in makeshift kesa, one a scarf, the other a scarf, the other a blanket… Aren’t all kesas ‘makeshift’ – we sometimes forget that,

Therefore, when alone,
I never feel alone.
Without a kesa,
I am from the community of those who wear it,

Franck – September 2023
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