Concepts are hooks screwed into the sides of the surrounding mountains. When you nourish them, you strengthen and tighten the ropes that bind you to
Étiquette : consciousness
Consciousness Prodigy
As was the case with Mozart’s music, some people are consciousness prodigies : where others barely distinghuish a few notes in the dense score of
Wait a Little More
It may not always be a good thing for people who have recently entered the higher spheres of consciousness to be too close to those
The Family Of Sitting Meditation
Sitting is a union that protects a small, fragile being that we must take care for. Sometimes it remains hidden behind the bushes,sometimes he reveals
The Leaning-Toward
At the source of every thought, whatever its content, praiseworthy or trivial, subtle or crude, superficial or profound,there is always the same ingredient, the same
Contact Point, Entry Point
The point of contact between What sees and what is seenwhat smells and what is smelled,what tastes and what is tasted, what hears and what
Net Profit of Sitting
The results of zazen are always beneficial,Whether you are aware of it or not,Whether your intention is authentic or not,Whether the zazen sessions are wobbly
Decoding Consciousness
The urgency, the one that truly deserves speeding up time, consists of achieving the counter-urgency: slowing down the pace of psychological life, compared to the
Consciousness and Rice Paper
The layers of consciousness are like layers of rice paper on the windows.We pierce them one by one, or all at once in the process
Sacrilege
The true sacrilege consists of not practicing when your consciousness allows it.However, if you don’t practice when you have the possibility to do so, it’s
Heaven and Hell
Read in Thich Nhat Hanh in one of the Commentaries on the 50 Stances of Consciousness.This resonates with the childhood intuition recounted elsewhere in these
Musical Wind
The musical wind, sitting zazen, in front of the still incandescent logs.I am here to hear it,otherwise the wind would play for nothingotherwise the wind
Arrival Gate
I sometimes go over my intention to avoid the feeling of pretension that these few words could initiate in the reader…They seem true to me:
Welcoming the Sound
Me, a musician, my whole life… I, who have spent so many hundreds of hours trying to tame exercises and scales, trying to appropriate the
Teaching the World
Zen walks in the opposite direction of the worldThe world teaches absence,Zen teaches presence,Outside of zen, no life,Zen must teach the world. ©FJ Feb. 2025Recueils
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