By endlessly quibbling over the details of the outer posture, don’t we trap ourselves in a suffocating deadend street ? We need to allow the
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Sitting With Jesus (note)
In Matthew 6:6, when Christ invites you, as you pray, to ‘go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is
My Lifelong Friend
Your insecurities : they’re what keeps me away from youwhat chops my attentiveness and jerks my sentencesSo blatantly bleeding, they splash around and drown me.
Simplify Your Life Equation (2/2)
I am not this house
I am not this money.
Simplify Your Life Equation (1/2)
Simplify your lifeLike you would simplify the terms of an equationUntil a few numbers remainSo you can understand them in a glance… … In a
Ancestral Choir (The Mantra)
You’re never alone when you sing a mantra.Even when there’s only one cushion in the dojo. Whenever you pronounce a mantra or recite the four
Zenious of Humour (Jokes of a Bodhisattva)
Humor offers a possibility to sneak into parallel universes.In a flash, the author of a joke tears apart the painting of our representations of reality.
the Heart-Ocean
Identity is frothThose bubbles hypnotizeThe eyes of our being. They sparkle, fizzle,Agglutinate and burst. Wide, tranquil, emergency-freeThe heart-ocean does not change a thingTo its peaceful
A Smile of Light
Do not try to understand these words aside from the posture.They are incomprehensible. When all this appears in zazen, there is nothing to understand.Maybe a
A Night in a Tent (note)
Among the things we can learn from a night spent in a tent, there are two that have appeared very important to me : The
The Teaching Wave
The Teaching is universal,Broadcasting from the posture, It makes no distinction. Sometimes, as I sit, only the world can hear it.At other times, I seem
Crisis of the Egosystem
The ecological crisis finds its roots in the egological crisis. Totally ignoring alternatives, our egos swell and choke, Sentencing themselves to the destruction of their
The Same Song
I really feel tremendous joy every time I notice the practices I have experienced in my heart are what the Scriptures have been pointing to
« The Essence of Zen » (note on Harada’s book)
In his book, the Essence of Zen*, Sekkei Harada mentions the ego-self and quotes Dogen’s Zazengi : We cannot explain…Zazen is zazen.We have to say
All other ways
There are so many ways, leading to the Way. This Way where all ways lead can actually be found. We lay there in peace, deeply
Notes & Silence 