My friends, this is what, without authority or legitimacy, I enjoin you, I invite you to do.Free your Zazen,Free yourself. Your practice is under control.Supervision
My friends, this is what, without authority or legitimacy, I enjoin you, I invite you to do.Free your Zazen,Free yourself. Your practice is under control.Supervision
Asking the question of Self,it is to manifest a situation of incompatibility with the knowledge of the Self. Answering such a question in the affirmative
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only son”…(John 3: 16) …that He gave His dearest son,that He gave the most precious
Today, I like soft, atmospheric, often instrumental music,With minimalist, subtle arrangements, They pursue an objective rather opposite to that of the music that has received
Religion is not the bottom of the soul.It is the vocabulary that opens the doors of your soul. The scents that bring you to a
Whatever the book, however holy or comforting it may be,It can only lead you to the river, drop you on the bank. The book will
In the end and always simplyTo those who listen, it appears that the ego is a tensionAnd the Self, a relaxation. ©FJ September 2022Recueils /
It’s so amazing, so wonderfulTo see that the bottom of failure and the edge of awakeningAre one and the same line. ©FJ September 2022Recueils /
In Zazen, all my incompleteness passes, without hurting meThe once lamentable, leaves an evanescent trace,In a boundless landscape, They can wane and vanish, The instant
The conceptual scaffolding of religions/philosophies,Are constructions, more or less skillful, subtle and cumbersome,Behind which we take refuge.Should we then take refuge in non-refuge ? ©FJ
There is not one among you who is not called to the Lord’s Supper,The Great Turnaround, The Great OpportunityIn a thundering silence of complicity,May everyone
« Do this in remembrance of me » I have long seen here a commemoration, a disembodied statement as one celebrates a distant historical event. “Remember,” Christ
This is why I chose the Land of Zen to settle my refuge. The absence of preliminary beliefs, of non-negotiable ideological bouquet prior to any
The beauty of prayer is not in the candle.It is a prayer in the beauty of your heart when you approach the candle to light
It is true that prayer effectively picks up dead leaves in the garden.It is also true that the practice of Zazen uproots the tree from