To say that nothing happens in zazen is like finding oneself in a room unaware that, behind the door, stands a person, holding the destiny of the world in his hands, amidst a thousand other beings.
…And finally, thanks to an incomprehensible grace, opening the door to realize that these people are having tea while chatting in a confuse background noise.
Then, waiting there, simply listening, to the point of feeling comfortable enough to join in and understand that every word spoken contains ten others emitting on other, related frequencies and carrying a decisive symbolic message.
Or understanding that, in the end, none of this really matters.
©FJ March 2025
Notes & Silence 
No thing really matters.
Is that not the key?
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ultimate refuge.
Isn’t that an apophatic mirror of the virtue of equanimity ?
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I suppose it could be so seen. Equally, perhaps, « No Thing » could be taken as a strangely positive assertion.
Virtues are best treated with equanimity – their associated vices are always hiding in their coat tails.
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In nothing will we find so much freedom as in no thing.
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