You have to know how to organize your life according to the opportunities that happen, and this is not always easy. Similarly, and in an
You have to know how to organize your life according to the opportunities that happen, and this is not always easy. Similarly, and in an
-How do I know if my sitting was fair ? -It’s simple: if you haven’t found the heart of your existence, you might have been
Our modern, technological, ego-centered, Promethean world, This world of permanent static, frying, where you always have to have something wriggling in the pan of your
Here is a short note inspired by C., a Zazen friend. What place should be given to rigor, discipline, stick-to-it-iveness? I am not known to
The lotus of realization grows in the filthy mud of disillusions,In the mire of inconceivable disappointment,The roots of the invisible smile. ©FJ Avril 2023Recueils /
But how did I get here? I can’t really remember. Alone, listening to the call from the depth, a call, a place, another place,Sitting practice…
Behind the acquisition of knowledge is sometimes hidden a search for an upper hand to be taken on the future recipients of a knowledge generally
The devil, etymologically, is the one who divides, who dis-unites,the one who « gets in the way » of the road, In doing so, he splits the
It is no small thing to have the courage to leave the tree we have been clinging to to leave the hut that we have
The secret for a good night’s sleep,is to feel peace towards / and be at peace with every person you encounter in your mind. Hence
Television and screens take you away from yourself,they deprive you of the inclination to investigate consciousness.They invest the field of freedom and fill it with
Sacred texts and secular events reveal their interchangeability in nature. The texts become secular and everyday events become sacred, when we observe one and the
Helping a single being,Is saving the numberless, Piercing a single illusion,Is upprooting the densest forest. Truly understanding one teaching,Is integrating them all, Take a step
Water is a vector of information.It is the liquid manifestation of this principle, before our eyes and in our bodies/souls. What is decisive is the
When others spend their time locking me into their narrow representations,I strive very hard to satisfy no one.Someone has to teach them, right? ©FJ April