« Leave this body-mind » means: leave the body-mindTo understand something else is to not know the port where we find ourselves,And ignore the departure and the
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When the Child Appears
Do not think for a moment that I write spiritual texts,I don’t. I merely read my heart with a pen in my hand,I light up
Apex Exit
Apex ExitClose, closer, pressed,You, our beings, one to the otherBy hands and eyes,Our knowledge of the very wide,Yours fluid and in mine,My miring in reminiscences
The Hearts And The Reins
Psalm 7The Lord trieth the kidneys (‘reins’) and the heartsTaoism: the wise know passions and fears Heart / PassionsKidneys / Fear ©FJ Sept. 2025Recueils /
Truth Without Words
-When is Zen born? – Zen is born when you stop searching for words about truth and start searching for the truth without words. ©FJ
Radical
Leave the body-mind!Christ on the cross.Who else can leave this body-mind like this? (Mi-Ka-El) ©FJ Sept. 2025Recueils / Participation/
With People
Naively, I truly believed that simply being with people was enough to stop being alone.Every day, hundreds of people around me.Still alone. ©FJ_Fev 2026Books /
A Sharp Push on the Divers’ Backs
This morning, I considered that when Dogen pronounced the injunction to « leave the body-mind, » « shinjin datsuraku, » he meant precisely that. There are certainly multiple possible
On the Other Side of the Self
Belief in a self is the obstacle to compassion, emptiness,selflessness and allows compassion, emptiness begets compassion,compassion allows the realization of emptiness, Shiki soku ze kuku
« You’re a big boy now… »
You’re bigger, broader, freer than that, « leave this body-mind. »Like a father who raises his voice a little to his young child, who doesn’t dare go
Lonely Potato
It is fair to argue that meditating alone is to risk being trapped within one’s own projections, without ever experiencing the favor of a fragment
Ripples From Beyond
I was searching for a path of simplicity, devoid of the clutter of concepts,I was searching for a path not drowned in words, A path
Happy Arrangement
It is intellectual effort that gives rise to the solution in thoughts.It emerges owing to a happy arrangement from the depths. The energy of the
But what are you doing?
Realising the barrenness of identification with mind activity is truly the first step on any spiritual path. Many people teach,don robes and finery,have temples and
Through And Beyond
Spirituality is about sitting through.By way of sitting through, we end up sitting beyond.By way of sitting beyond, we end up just sitting. ©FJ Sept.
Notes & Silence 