The relationship with alcohol is sometimes the only possible inner life experience. A hell. For many people, the only investigation of consciousness that they have
The relationship with alcohol is sometimes the only possible inner life experience. A hell. For many people, the only investigation of consciousness that they have
Institutional Zen: leading figures are mere caricatures who call the rancid “food” and lug their flock into a museum of dusty and artificial objects,Where they
My 10 year-old son asked me if I knew that the Bible was “God speaking to me” ? I answered I did….And specified that to
It is the story of a man who completed a doctorate in theology, in philosophy of religions,the story of an gesticulating zen master.The story of
The time has come when writing appears as nothing more than an intention floating in the psychological broth. It is observed, acute, lively.It for ever
Spiritual practice is a wave : sitting on this wave, it is normal for the practitioner to oscillate between higher and lower points, and to
Liberation, the funnel does not come naturally and enemy forces act to plant the seeds of doubt (Mara). They accuse and make false statements in
« When I heard their outcry and these charges, I was very angry. 7 I pondered them in my mind and then accused the nobles and officials. I
The call to prayer – listen ! — is the call of the divine to you,the call of the divine that reaches you In prayer,
The call to prayer resonates within me, not from anyone’s mouth, not from a particular building, not from a bell or a bowl. The call
The divine springs from experience, The experience of the divine is different from the practice of the divine And the practice of the divine sculpture
Shiki soku ze kuKu soku ze shiki = All is onePhenomena are not different from the realm of consciousness,spiritual spheres are no different from phenomena.“not
When the Buddha places his hand on the earth, from his sitting posture, he points to the immediacy, the direct simplicity of nature, He experiences
Our instability, our anxiety pushes us – observe it – to notice. The awareness of the moment is the awareness of our inability to live
It is quite common in the Bible to use the 2-step process, as a narrative manner to reflect a certain inner movement (a movement of