Through sitting meditation, I see the perverse addiction to the Kingdom of Thoughts,the very one where suffering reigns. When at the edge of the borders,When
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Even Those Books, Even Those People
You spend your existence without reading your soulWhat are you waiting for?Books make you look awayOthers, often, are a diversion.User manuals are useless if you
The Art Of Pivoting
Consciousness is malleable. It is the mold of the outside (a context, a grace, a teaching) and the inside (practice, particular position) The two modes
The Mother of All Alibis
Among my peers, I notice that what they call their « work » and around which they agglomerate so many lumps of identity,is in reality a screen-occupation
A Few Lines
Dogen is right: a few lines on the sitting practice are enough.Postural snobbery is an opportunity to assert oneself in an endless manner.The only thing
Sitting Case
Behind zazenAnd protected by this sitting-boxShell of maturation,Covered the taste of the Absolute, Of simplicity as a horizon,The love of the greatest,The embrace of the
The Rest
Wisdom is not of the order of the sumBut of the remainder..It is what is discovered when the opacifying, inactivating layers of acquisition disintegrate. This
Religious Magnetism
Religions exert a very powerful magnetism on our mind.In a situation of silence, prayer, meditation, All of this mental and religious material aggregates and summons
At The Zazen Bar
In the bar of alcoholic thoughts, silent sitting is the owner who grabs them one by one by the collar and leads them to the
Nothing to See
Sitting is on the side of deconstruction, yes…Sitting is especially…on the side.Where we observe the movements of constructions and deconstruction alternating.This also applies to our
Koan For A Father
My 8-year-old boy quickens his pace to match mine.That afternoon, in fact, my feet are getting active, urging for a walk.My mind is not there
This Corpse
By the light — from the lampshade on the ceiling that strikes both my face and the glass in a mirror screen, I can observe
Unbelievers
The Quran, on many occasions, differentiates between believers and others. It may seem, at first glance, and this impression may prove to be very tenacious
At the Cross-roads
I struggle to explain this : In the extreme immanence of sitting meditationThere is something transcendent.In the posture of the body, the mind reveals itself.In
Letting In
God, the consciousness that seeks to expand,What consciousness seeks to expand towards Moments of boredom, of sadness in life, often correspond to terrains that we
Notes & Silence 