It is only in Zazen that I find the space to spread the cloth of our deep nature,The cloth of consciousness, because zazen has made
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Kneading With Your Feet
By kinhin, meditative walk in Zen, you knead the dough of awakening.By zazen, sitting meditation, you cook it Outside the cushion, you offer bread to
Spirit of Awakening, Spirit of God
The call from God and the presence of bodhicitta, the spirit of awakening,are two realities in me that I could not let coexist.I realize today
Adventurer Spirit
I still can’t believe the courage it takes for a practitioner to see from the inside, that all religions, all of them, carry a pile
Spiritual Survival
Being rooted in a tradition, then following a path of ordination, a path of formalizing the commitment to this tradition is often an objective for
God and the Dharma
In silent sitting, the Dharma feeds on God,In prayer, God feeds on the Dharma.Through the Dharma, God expandsThrough God, the Dharma comes to lifeGod is
Harp of the Heart
And if something resonates within you – book, word, teaching,It is because it is already there.This arpeggio of inner strings, this harp in the depths
Gnosis
It is really difficult to accept that spirituality is not one more learning, or yet another set of elements to acquire by effort and study,
Merciful Punishment
By sitting in silence, I increase my chances of finally hearing the grace behind the mind that is silent. However, this is not a guarantee
Total Adventure
In simple sitting, abandon all frameworks,the landscapes of explanation, of understanding, the tangles of concepts The silent prayer,The prayer begins,When the words are silentLet the
Disbelief-Punishment (2/2)
Part 1 Dogen is only the positive counterpart of the hundreds of biblical and Koranic verses, of all the texts that seem to brandish the
Disbelief-Punishment (1/2)
« Those who have not believed will suffer a vile torment »The torment is not to believe, not to see.This type of statement is often perceived as
On the side of joy
The vague sadness that I observe tonight while watching this documentary on Zen…Heaviness, dullnessI don’t know what it is.This is foreign to me, now. I
Surge Of Life
The free and wild soul expresses itself through questions that, rather than pushing the practitioner forward, represent an infinity of sidesteps along the path, and
Lost
The rigor of the framework of practice,The discipline against which we would have a thousand things to write, each justified in its own way… nevertheless
Notes & Silence 