Emptiness is a movement of hollowing out,phenomena are a filling movement.two directions,two energies. This is where the beginner’s mind is born.essentially on the side of
Étiquette : emptiness
A Thousand Times, Still…
A thousand times, I’ve been ready for surprises,A thousand times, surprises did not come.Today I no longer expect it,I might well be surprised ©FJ June
The Economy of Innocence / Linguistics of Emptiness
Thomas Merton, in Zen and the Birds of Appetite :The notion of innocence (which he offers as a translation for « emptiness ») through economic terms :
Du Cœur à la Vacuité (2/2)
Et enfin, oui, toutes les religions énoncent la vérité. Elles ont toutes raison à des niveaux différents. Elles reflètent toutes un ou plusieurs niveaux de
De la Vacuité au CŒUR (1/2)
Et si la vérité n’était pas cette pièce biface, cette compréhension toujours binaire de la vacuité ?Si elle était un échafaudage ou s’enchevêtrent différents plans
Alone in the Elevator (?)
Breathing in, Breathing out,Thoughts have their own cycles.Suddenly, one disappears and the next one does not arise.A bit of waiting, it does not come. The
What Makes me Feel like Crying (2/2)
This poem is following : What Makes me Feel like Crying (1/2) This is the point where wordsCollapse into linesAnd lines fade out in dots,Where
Headlamp Adventure
We move through life the way we advance in a cave, with a headlamp beaming forward. As we enter the room of our thirties, we
This is Real, This is Unreal
Our soul, angels, hungry ghosts, parallel worldsThey are all real. They’re all illusory. Paradise, hell, pure earths, …Everything is true. Until the ultimate truth unveils
Hishiryo
Do not hear the words of othersUnless you’ve taught yourself perfect silence. Do not grasp and consider any conceptUnless you’ve entered non-thinking. When you have
A Flow of Light
The seamless move from materiality to ethereality, phenomena to vacuity ku to shiki, shiki to ku Non-doing enters emptiness, embraces a thousand forms, and comes
Notes & Silence 