When Buddhists gently mock the stories of Marian apparitions, I wonder if they have truly taken note of the Mahayana sutras, which depict such a
Étiquette : Buddhism
Lay Down Buddhism
See: Buddhism, like any other body of knowledge, is so cumbersome in the practice of simple sitting,Leave it all thereand walk beyond with a lightened
Heart of Wisdom
The heart of wisdom,The summary of this armada of concepts is their uselessness, So go beyond,go, and take with you,Those who will have the courage
The Bald Man Was Right
The bald man, whom I eyed with suspicion, was right. Yet I saw in his words yet another gratuitous provocation, one for which he had
Healing Through Impermanence
When attachment is identified by the practitioner as a source of suffering and this understanding alone is not enough to allow him to free himself
Suffering, Suffering
What the Buddha means by « suffering »: destruction, narrowing down of the fields of consciousness,What Christ means by suffering: purification, new irrigation of dried-up fields of
Wider My Heart
MayahanaGreat Vehicle,Is the Vehicle of the ever wider,This « ever wider » is the vehicle that leads you beyond,That leads you to the Kingdom. The teaching of
Path of Buddhism
Buddhism could suggest that there is a whole arsenal of theoretical and conceptual content to master before being able to access the practice and derive
A Heart of Compassion
Hannya Shingyo is the fruit the heart of Avalokiteshvara, (Kannon, Guan Yin, Bodhisattva of compassion)Through compassion, transcending the world,Transcending the world to heal it,The other
Missing Piece
Blaise Pascal said: “In the heart of Man there is a hole in the shape of God.” I remember this object that I had as
For-Ever Safe
Here is a way of understanding the Buddhist concept of emptiness: none of the 5 aggregates: sensations, perceptions, mental formations, forms, consciousness… is worthy of
Non-Self And The Eternal Soul
The soul is changing.The absence of a permanent self ceases to mean the negation of the soul as soon as we recognize its changing nature:This
How I love life
I like the large empty parking lots after leaving restaurants late in the evening.The large flat spreading of the fields of Flanders, without any construction
Zen Everywhere
One of my friends from the previous dojo, customary to utter provocative statements, used to repeat: “Zen is not Buddhist.”And that annoyed me. For some
3 Mountains
The Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha,a single movement in reality, a single river flowingfrom, between, and around these three mountains. ©FJ March 2023Recueils / ParticipationsPractice
Notes & Silence 