When Dogen says that the Dharma is “obtained neither by thought nor by the absence of thought,” this means that one must not “not think.”
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Elusive
Through the Bible, the believer seeks to encounter God,But God is elusive. This is not a property of God; it is His very nature. God
Dissolving The Floor
When the floor of the mind seems to have solidified so much that no breakthrough can take place,Is it through breathing that we manage to
Devotion
It does not surprise me that in the great plains of consciousness, the appeal to this or that figure has real virtues of anchoring, of
Already Great
The simple realization of the powerfully magnetic aspect that the mind exerts on our field of consciousness is already a great achievement.Affirming knowledge of the
This is strange
The framework around zazen can be both considered completely useless and part of the artifice of giving credibility to a practice, intended for a group
Invoking the angel, bowing before the cushion
Invoking the angel, a devotion to a particular saint, Ultimately, these are inner practices, just as when a zazen practitioner comes to bow before a
Genuine Inclusion
Zazen is the posture of inclusion par excellencewhere all beliefs existand fade away. ©FJ July 2025Recueils / Participation/
My Friends Here, My Friends There
Practicing zazen alone is important,if only to realize that we need others. The true dojo is held together by the pillars of practitioners.A single pillar
Religion of Noise
You have made a religion of noise.You have made noise a religion.Your relationship with noise and the environments that generate it is religious. The noise
Of course we see you
Imposing hyper-positioning on people’s identity results from the frenetic segmentation of markets and minds.Describing this hyper-positioning as a manifestation of the spirit of inclusion and
Jumping Off A Cliff
Each ontological incompleteness of language is in itself an invitation to silent sitting,A hand that invites to stretch a dotted line lost into half a
Dogen and the Divine Breath
“Although the unimaginable Dharma abounds within each of us, we can only perceive it through practice, for it is only attained by realizing it. Buddhas
Awaken Me
Physically present,the awakened one within me. Bowing down before the awakened one within you,a Buddha meets a Buddha, they say. Awakening meeting itselfEverything then is
The Divine at the end of the session
The gratitude I feel toward the divine at the end of the sitting session illuminates the artificiality of all the categories with which the human
Notes & Silence 