(Part One : The Call 1/3) 1 : Hearing the call2 : realizing this has been a call all along In my life, 1 and 2 have
Étiquette : experience
The Call 1/3
Without a doubt, now that I’m looking back on my life these last 15 years or so, I can tell there has been a call.Something
When The Ship Is Stuck in a Dead Channel
It is always fear that solidifies the status quo.It allows the development of strata when the flow of energy is broken. Fear is a dam
May The Moon Never Go Out
As the night rises, and the day sets,The silence that emerges is especially favorable to the sound of envy: desire, having, being-as much, if not
Morning Desire
The most appropriate moment to observe desire in its works is in the early morning. Lying in the half drowsiness of post-sleep, comfortably lying on
On The Way Back From The Dojo
On the walk back from the dojo,A thousand delights abound.Life arises on the surfaceEach branch, each breezeCarries a penetrating sound,Each step softly throbsTo the Universal
Summer Field
1In the Summer field,Sitting meditation cannot beginWithout removing small branches and pine apples from under the blanket 2In the middle of the Summer field,Sitting practice
The Width Of Christ
I have always been fascinated by the space Jesus occupies in the Koran.Issa, so much broader than all tales about him.How could he ever be
Burning Zazen
Zazen, act of compassion, toward ourselves and the world.Not in a two-step movement,But in a single moment.Through this sitting, emerges an opportunity for all fires
The Encounter
Systems and ideologies may as well disappear and engulf their share of books, titles, credentials, and words.The grace of the encounter, the appointment with The
The Texture Of Truth
What are words of truth ?We may answer that question by spilling a millions words on the origin of those words…,on the context in which
Zen Meditation : Taking Off
Pelvis opening,From the back, above the cushion,Like a spreading pair of wingsLike an origami sheet coming back to its fold. Knees anchoring, at last.Femur turning
Maniac Maps
As soon as the pilgrim starts to follow an academic junction, he moves further away from the spiritual path.Inevitably, the intellectual approach dries up the
When The Child Reached Out A Hand
Sometimes our relation to a children is grueling through the instantaneous capacity they have to hack our flow of thoughts, and steal our consciousness from
Sky, Water And Dogen
A few words regarding Dogen’s reference to the sky and the water in Zazenshin :The bird in the real sky and the fish in the
Notes & Silence 