Attachment is also the force preventing or slowing down all movement towards a return to inner balance.The body-mind entity tends towards homeostasis, dynamic balance and
Attachment is also the force preventing or slowing down all movement towards a return to inner balance.The body-mind entity tends towards homeostasis, dynamic balance and
By chance of a short teaching delivered to my youngest disciple, relating to non-attachment, I suddenly connect the words I say and the situation I
I sometimes find it difficult to differentiate between religion and politics,Between debates on religion and rhetorical attempts to trigger agreement to an ideological system. Many
I sit in silence as one opens one’s eyes in the morning, as one breaks the fast, as one leaves for work, as one goes
One of my friends from the previous dojo, customary to utter provocative statements, used to repeat: “Zen is not Buddhist.”And that annoyed me. For some
-What does it mean to sell your soul ?-Join the illusion, compromise yourself spiritually,It’s about making trade-offs with honesty, authenticity… Small arrangements with yourself: that
The Testament,The Old, the New, is a unionA breakthrough from one to the other, a lightning bolt towards the depths.From deep consciousness, anchor yourself, settle
The rooster crows as if it were hoisting with its thin legsThe next day, buried with all his weight in the darkness of the night.He
Jesus is twofold; both perfectly man and perfectly God. It comes through in the short passage from the Garden of Gethsemane… “Father, if you are
The key ingredient in the dish of spirituality is joy.Whatever the path, if the heart is not joyful, it is not a path of spiritualityA
Reciting a text or a prayer is not a lower practice compared to silent meditation.It may prove to be a means of access to the
The encounter with the Heart of Being, the encounter with God, should never be too hasty.The desire for the encounter has to be met, identified,
Sitting, hands joined,Hot breath,Air caressTo the heart and throat Sun on the sandRemoves slag,Gone, dissolved, Breathe again in the sky of my soul,Soften me ©FJ
I now see that, without you, life has no meaning,since you are the meaning.Without you, my existence is the antechamber of life,Where everything runs on
The Great Freedom?Here it is: see that everything we have,Is already lost, that in reality, we never truly had it.This applies to everything, everyone, to