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
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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
Forehead On The Floor
I have underestimated the importance of prostration for so long. I see today from the inside and unexpectedly, in the eyes of others as in
Living Spirituality
I am alive.My spirituality is alive,I practice the spirituality that crosses my path and reveals to me the life it contains.The spirituality that I practice
A Course In Tyranny
The idea that refusal to adhere to an idea or belief is due to a misunderstanding is one of the worst frauds of the contemporary
Do not speak, it is useless.
The differences between traditions are an optical illusion due to the fact that the observer stands,-either outside all traditions and has no experience of frequenting
Ropes and Rituals
When you make all the practice-maintaining ropes (i.e., ritual) disappear,The practice disappears: it loses its forms and tends to become shapeless, until there is nothing
Towards the Center and Back
People do what they do to get what they want.What people want, what they run after, I do not desire.However, I am forced to do
Remembering God
The practice of remembering God, which is found in Sufism (Dhikr) but also in other forms in the Orthodox Christian tradition (Kyrie Eleison / « Russian
Coming Back To The Sitting Stable
Even if the world seems to persist in doing everything to keep forgetting, the body knows the sitting posture…and as soon as it stops being led
The Living Rituals
In Zen, rituals are everywhereAs soon as attention falls onthe object I am holding,the step of my walk,the words of my speech,the living rituals unfold.
What I (don’t) talk about
In the end, this has nothing to do with meand I cannot explain why or how silent sittingcracks open the heart of being,pierces the shell
Baby Moses
The river that carries baby Moses is the Logos.We are the infant, will we capsize, shake the basket in all directions and grab all the
No Donut
I don’t do sunbathes,don’t consume anythingdon’t have a cooler,or a towel. I do not participate in ball games,nor do I enjoy sandcastles, I pass through
Notes & Silence 