I have never found answers anywhere else but in the practice of silence.Sometimes, silence makes events speak,Other times it silences them all.But still, it nourishes
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Give Thanks
The Sitting practice trims and trimsCuts and clearsAnd finally leads to the heart of spirituality. There, we can all live with the same spirit.There, their
When Everything Shuts Down
All these posts can as well stop right hereI will write, as far as eyes can see, sutras, mantras, passages from holy texts, prayers,That would
Her Whom I Embrace With My Eyes
The practice of simple sitting is a joyful practice.It teaches the courage to go beyond the crust of concepts.Experience requires going through this crustIt is
Zen on the lips
Zen, Zen, Zen… It does not matter the least !For Zen does not exist, Zen exists nowhere else but in yourself, right here, right now,What
You’re not walking the Path
Sitting never ceases to reveal this: the calm behind the curtain on which your mind makes the conceptual decorum of religions’ dances, Silent sitting is
Silence and the Unspeakable (2/2)
PART 1 We spend our lives Wanting, wanting not to, Identifying, distancing, Delighting, suffering Below these strata, Pass beyond the boundary of silence, Where silence
Silence and the Unspeakable (1/2)
Spiritual wishes stumble and come up against the rough edges of one person, the descriptions of another. Hesitations and procrastination – I have written extensively
Done listening
On the opposite side of silenceEverything is talking, constantly,All languages, all is talking ceaselessly,and I’m done listening. ©FJ Oct 2023Recueils / Participations
Removing the Contradiction
A difficulty to integrate seemingly contradictory contents may come from an inability to perceive the transitory property of contradiction. Furthermore, once the contradiction is perceived
A Buddhist Dolorism ?
In Mayahana Buddhism, there is a doloristic reading of the teachings, which is strangely familiar to a certain approach of Catholicism.It can be found in
The Language of Silence
I waited a long time in silence.Silence does not speak Hebrew, Sanskrit, Japanese, Arabic or Latin.Silence does not speak.That’s one more reason to listen.
Compensatory Armada
Religion, spiritual practice, are conceptual cages from which one day we will have to escape.We are the young child lying in bed, a mobile that
For now, my voice cannot reach you.
I’m talking to you from a place of quietnessYou’re listening to me from where everyone keeps talkingThis is the reason why you cannot hear me.
The Bird Friend at the Top of the Cherry Tree
The cherries hanging from the tree in my garden are often found in twos or threesand, often, the reddest ones are at the top of
