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
Étiquette : consciousness
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
Free diver
Consciousness is the weighted cable you hold onto, that you let go of, and to which you return.Consciousness is the balance that leads you along
Do Not Name
It is not useful to understand the content of the Hannya Shingyo,reciting the sounds of this text is enough to orient the soul/consciousness of the
Is Your Life Running Empty?
Your practice,sitting, silence, is the time you spend frequenting Being.Your relationship with Being,Is the only modality of life that is worthwhile.As soon as this relationship
Reality is a reflection of our souls
It is not metaphors, allegories inspired by reality that are skillfully used to describe the phenomena of consciousness. It is the phenomena of consciousness that
Still Looking Outside?
Once you have seen the center, the alignment, that you have let the well of consciousness gush through your eyes, stream to your lips, why
Ark of Consciousness
March 2023: Many people are experiencing an inner collapse and are suffering terribly from seeing all the landmarks with which they have always built themselves
Notes & Silence 