By straying too far from practice, one would almost forget the futility of all exogenous knowledge.Through the practice of just sitting, we reside (‘abide’) on
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Electric Fence
Some people are held captive by the physical net of their nerves… Jailed in the prison of their nerves,Trapped behind the electric fence of their
Horse Whispering As A Practice
Each name placed on an inner impression is sitting on the back of an emotional horse whose nature is much more eloquent than the name
Vice Networks
The element that is sufficient to characterize social networks as intrinsically flawed, i.e. the element intrinsic to social networks justifying that their use can only
Whether You Like It Or Not
I know Zen doesn’t talk about God.And I know that mindfulness has no official place in Christianity…But when I read 1 COR 10:31 (“So whether
Step One : Erase Death. Step Two : Buy From Us
The disappearance of death and aging in our modern Western societies, their fierce negation is also the effect of a coherence of the desire for
Our Father
By reciting the Lord’s Prayer, its first line, as my inner eyes open, a few seconds before the opening of my physical eyelids.On this step
The Mountain Is The Mountain
By sitting Zazen,I come back in neutral.The point of the all-possible,The point of waiting-nothingAt the Ku-Shiki border Exactly where everything happensAnd where nothing happens.From this
And Yet You Betray Yourself
Against the one who has already lost, nothing can be done.And he can’t find a place in the system, he has stopped wanting to. From
Sutra In The Mind
After all these years, the true sutra still runs behind the sutra in the mind. The mind sutra still runs behind the upcoming sitting session,
Roughness In Everyday Life
What does this gesture, so abrupt and innocuous in the eyes of all, say about you ? You, who have learned to listen, can read
Parting The Sea
Opening a path through the water of the Red Sea,Suddenly revealing the earth. The teaching from the parted depths of the soul appears.Moses traces the
No Other God (note)
« There is no other God but God. » Is it possible that this fundamental phrase of Islam, the primordial prayer of all practitioners, is the way
Practice is One (audio)
French Version available here (Audio note transcript) Sitting session recorded from the middle of the forest, owing to an impromptu afternoon walk… I was speaking
Happy Pebbles In The Water
These writings are not intended to teach the world from some place of groundless pretension.These are notes to myself, taken in snap, in the urgency
Notes & Silence 