Life is never so loved, so lovable and presentthat when it surrounds and illuminates slow, precise gestures, which unify us. A hand that reaches out
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Zeroing In
God is the name that you place on the depths of your soul. This name which initiates and allows investigation. According to traditions, this final
Mercantile
It is fundamental that a tradition offer a sufficiently broad framework to accommodate the reality of spiritual expression.All traditions feature trapped areas where the floor
Clinging to Forms, Sometimes
When sitting practice is difficult, respect for formal aspects is all that’s left to keep us going. Hands joined, leaning to the left, leaning to
Snobbery and Projection
As long as you have not unified within yourself the dual and non-dual paths, Everything you call “experience of the divine” is mere projection and
The Momentum of Grace / Broad Consciousness
We can experience an intermediate stage between focused attention (polarization of attention) and diffuse attention (broad looking/listening). It occurs when we try to move from
Joyful Sitting
Before everything that we can say or write about it, the practice of silent sitting – zazen – is something very simple: a direct joy
Solitary Practice ?
I have always been a fervent defender of making silent sitting a solitary practice.I now recognise the tendency towards formal disintegration that such a practice
Where the Bird Can Rest
How would you expect the bird to still come and rest his gentle feet with all the noise the Man keeps making ? It pulses
In God’s Hands
When the Quran repeats that God “hears and sees all,” it is not trying to hammer home a divine obsession with control and guilt.On the
Bouncing Ball
“Thinking from the depths of non-thought”, said Master Deshimaru…. Absorption in God acts as such on conceptual thinking. In the state of deep prayer, the
Killing Fear
I found the opposite of, the remedy for, fear: –Faith. Tonight, as a last resort, the faith, I embrace, because there is no other place
There Is Your Teacher
Silent sitting is teaching yourselfTo come back to thesimplicitybeautyoneness Of what is Silent sitting is teaching yourselfto come back to emptinesswaiting behind phenomena. ©FJ Nov
Zazen Before Zazen
As we start sitting in the lotus posture, appears the impulse which sets the whole energy-burning machine in motion. When the back of the foot
Godzen (2)
Would you dare to call God Zen and the other way around ?What’s left to keep you from doing so ?That’s the question. ©FJ Nov
Notes & Silence 