Again, this is an old post I dug out and dusted out while preparing the next book… It is not because we communicate on a
Étiquette : being
Where Practice Stops, Practice Begins
The tools held at our disposal, by eastern traditions as well as systems from which they derive, do not open on any experience of transcendence…
Where Your Treasure Is…
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For
Into Being Now
There was something puzzled in me When you spoke, when you moved I would wait, further back, And then I understood. Your automatic cues, picked
Live Forever
Zazen : seeing DeathComing forth as inner eyes adjust. Zazen : agreeing to stay putAnd sit one-on-one with Life Singing in tune, at last,With what
Knowledge Wishes
May Knowledge descend in youAnd open you eyes, your heart and your mindWhen you’re least expecting it.Yet, make sure everything is ready to welcome it.
the Heart-Ocean
Identity is frothThose bubbles hypnotizeThe eyes of our being. They sparkle, fizzle,Agglutinate and burst. Wide, tranquil, emergency-freeThe heart-ocean does not change a thingTo its peaceful
See-Through Sitting
One thing he clearly had not anticipated as he was sitting zazen through all these years, was that, despite all expectations, and against all pre-traced
The Leap of Faith
Could we jump off our ill-being
To the pure heart of Being ?
Now, Look
Coming back to basics Again, again, and again Until it becomes natural Until it remembers being natural Until it finds back its own place –
Down the Stairs of Meditation
Meditating is going down the rocky caves on the way to ourselves. You might want to consider meditating as you slowly walk down the stairs
A Bag of Skin on the Top of a Mountain
What does it mean, to be surprised in the scenario of a dream ? ‘This is a wedding vows renewal ceremony and I am walking
Notes & Silence 