The colors of life dancing in meAre now blending differently,Delicate glows slowly emergingAnd vividness ready to dim. It is good, it is sad,It is calm
« If I Could Not Breathe Zen… »
Just this once will not hurt : I am simply sharing the content of somebody else…As it is, without trying to comment or add anything
The Practice of Ignorance
It is very clear to my eyes, that the underlying power conveying thoughts does not belong to me.When the vertical axis collides with and opens
Péché Originel (note)
Pour le judaïsme, le péché originel est l’acte initial de décorrélation entre les mondes ou, au moins, entre notre monde et les autres. Le péché
I Stumbled on a Zafu (note)
I truly enter the heart of practice – that is, the place where practice ends / transcending moments of insightful grace, when there was nothing
Aimer son Être en Lambeaux ?
Tout au long de nos journées, puis, à la longue, de nos vies, nous trimbalons — sans le verbaliser, ni parfois le savoir — une
Through The Impossible Sitting
From the hearth of tensionCatching a glimpse of stillness From the sputtering surface frothRemembering the depths Amid the impossible practiceSitting Zazen Franck Joseph©FJ Jan 2021-
Zen et Poésie Panoramique
C’est en se détachant des tentatives d’hyper explication du monde que le pratiquant zen, d’une manière qui peut apparaître contradictoire à l’observateur superficiel, permet au
What Do I Do With Sensations ?
What I need to do with vedanas (1) is : …nothing.As soon as I attempt to deal with the ‘vedana phenomenon’, I have no other option
Parasite Infernal
Il y avait ce contraste vivifiant, qu’il ressentait dès que le contexte de sa vie autorisait un éloignement géographique…Et l’étouffement au retour dans ces murs
Breathing our Way Back
Breathing is the thread poking out,The one on which you drawTo reach back to the Spirit. Franck Joseph©FJ Jan 2021- All rights reserved.Articles are available
Travels in Guilt
Guilt can sometimes be a strategy to divert ourselves from mindfulness practices.It therefore becomes the support for yet another wild journey of inner sensations. Guilt
Syncrétisme des Profondeurs
Libre élucubration basée sur la lecture de « La Rose aux 13 Pétales “ de Adin Steinsaltz Je ne pense pas que la faiblesse ou l’étroitesse
Opening to Another World
Letting life unfold means des-inventing ourselves.Day in, day out, allowing the densified clusters of our emulated personality To crumble back to dust, enjoying the winds
See-Through Paint
All along these pages of practice,I could say that successive layers of paint appear…The yellowish ego starts showing through.Could it all be painted with the
Notes & Silence 