From inside, prayer is an orientation, a reorientation, a sitting within orientation.Prayer is the call to prayer, the listening to this call and the answer
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Crossing the Threshold
A sincere practice of Zen must necessarily lead to a threshold, beyond which it is impossible to continue the journey thus laden with conceptual tools,
Ancestral Practice
Silent sitting is necessarily the ancestral practice,The primordial tradition,The silence upstream of all practice, of all tradition,This is zazen. Everything we add to it speaks
Withdrawn
I have withdrawn,from so long times spent in the emulsions of the foam,on the surface of the wet sand, Today, I have withdrawn,I have lost
Constant Teaching On Unity
I remember hearing the story of a great Sufi master who had gathered several of his disciples to teach them about Divine unity (Tawhid)… When
Exhale (E), Inhale (I)
I: I breathe in the new,E: I breathe out the old,I: I come to nourish,E: What was waiting and no longer circulatedI: I come to
Canned Spirituality
Religion is to spirituality what processed food is to healthy, natural nutrition.Many practitioners use the religious interface for spiritual purposes. This acts as a ready-to-use,
Baptism, Ablutions
The words had stopped flowing, blocked upstream by the scree of concepts. No one but me had placed them there. The river has always flowed
Zazen vs. The Turtle
I can only stick to the simplest practices in the world—zazen. Bowl, incense, candleszazen bowl, candle,zazen, incense,zazen, being. Any other recommended practice, however recommendable, leaves
Ignorance
-What is ignorance? -Believing that one dwells in the sphere of thoughts, plus the consequences of this belief (identifications, perception of reality, through the prism
Smart and Morbid: A Few Slaps
Awareness of the use of technological tools and associated platforms (smartphones/social media, etc.) teaches us the morbid reality that colors the user’s mind. A dark
Ritual Freedom and the In-Draft 2/2
…Certain traditions do not allow the freedom not to… thus, the understanding expressed by the freedom to… simply does not occur. Such restrictive frameworks are
Ritual Freedom and the In-Draft 1/2
It is fundamental to perform the ritual: the bowing, hands clasped, the striking of the mallet on the wood, on the bowl, to light the
Involve This Body
So you regret that the body is not involved or insufficiently involved in your spiritual tradition ?What are you waiting for to involve more of
Where Is Your Wickedness?
The wickedness we retrospectively attribute to others, at the moment this attribution occurs, is a fabrication of the mind. As such, it has no real
Notes & Silence 