In the torments of life, those with which it never fails to sprinkle our daily lives,How easy it is to lose sight of the essential
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And The Hostage Gets Free
Fits of anger take all actors hostage.Faced with cries, jerky gesticulations, they fall victims of an emotional freeze, an inner petrifying torpor. Only a descent
Creating Reality : A Child’s Play
From childhood, we retain a fairly fine habit of integrating new skills. It is a playful, quite refined, integrated, internalized reflex that underlies some of
Whose Dharma Is This ?
Here, the vagueness of the genitive is deceitful and its investigation, provocative: ‘The Dharma of the Buddha doesn’t mean that the former belongs to the
Conflict Fuel
Of Course, after-Zazen considerations are not comparable to before-Zazen problems.Our perspective can change.Yet, the flattening of conflict zones ahead of sitting may also enable conditions
Silent Thunder
I met his gaze of light,The sparkle coming out of his eyes,Was reflected in mineNaked truthUnvarnished happinessRecognition has taken placeA second or twoAscending spiralCollapse of
Under Your Orders
One should never lose sight that the one who gives orders and gives away constraints is a being of communication.The order is the form taken
Art Of Tea
Jesus talks about tea leavesThe Buddha talks about filtersThey both talk about the same thing :The art of making tea. ©FJ April 2022Recueils — ParticipationsTelegram (Publications
Know That You Are On The Way
There are passages in the Bible which, at first glance, may appear either looking as a poor translation or clearly leave us quizzical, as far
Practice Is Beyond
The more I deepen my practice,The less prone I am to believing there are different messages across the various traditions.Once our soul has pierced through
Morning Desire
The most appropriate moment to observe desire in its works is in the early morning. Lying in the half drowsiness of post-sleep, comfortably lying on
The Consciousness Horse
It only takes faithIn the Consciousness Horse,Whenever he panics or gets confused by my wanderingsThere’s no need to bridle him on the left, to force
Sudden Disintegration
The practice of meditation is utterly thorough.It contains both everything we want to see happenand everything we don’t want to see happen.Everything that does not
The Stove of Sitting
Thoughts aggregate into lumps.And the larger the amount of debris in the psychic soup, the easier it will be for that cluster to embark the
On The Way Back From The Dojo
On the walk back from the dojo,A thousand delights abound.Life arises on the surfaceEach branch, each breezeCarries a penetrating sound,Each step softly throbsTo the Universal
Notes & Silence 