Zen masters, patriarchs of yesteryear, when they felt the hour of death approaching, would enter zazen and welcome in the posture the echo of their
Zen masters, patriarchs of yesteryear, when they felt the hour of death approaching, would enter zazen and welcome in the posture the echo of their
Realizing that religions are an artificial reading grid that we add to the world.Removing the grid from in front of our eyes.Freeing ourselves This is
If I look deeply at the people I meet,everyone I interact with,All these people are actually already dead.Worse: they never really existed. Their moving bodies
In the incense stick,living and dying are not two.The same goes for Man. Blocking the reduction of the burning stick,Preventing it from dying,This immediately kills
We hear and learn, when we are of Christian culture, a certain automatic sentence: the power of this sentence, the sudden and definitive sword movement
A common error in the Western and/or superficial perception of Buddhism is to only consider the absence of birth and death from a material perspective.
If you do not see that everyone and everything around you is dying, You’re not looking close enough. If you think that you will be
This morning I am considering the following possibility: The passage of a soul from one realm/ support to another and eternal life are not necessarily
There’s a life beyond this one,More precisely, what the fingers of the different traditions are pointing to, is beyond the Beyond.This latter refers above all
The disappearance of death and aging in our modern Western societies, their fierce negation is also the effect of a coherence of the desire for
It is because people are not able to look at Reality in the eyes, that they identify so much with surface elements.Doing so, they cut
(Foreword:The separation of post-mortem scenarios is artificial.An open and attentive look allows us to see in these different perspectives the facets of the same reality.
Whether you’re a Buddhist or not, Zen Monk or not,Don’t you always end up sitting Zazen ? Every night, therefore, I train for the end of
Inner life can only be…alive.A deadened inner life is the promise ushered by ideological fences and well-groomed concepts.The teaching at the heart of Zen is
It is often said that physical death is not the opposite of life.Yet, I feel as if I were the one initiating this revelation.This sentence