Stopping to look for words about truth,Looking for truthFinding the truthAre not three steps. ©FJ Sept. 2025Recueils / Participation/
Stopping to look for words about truth,Looking for truthFinding the truthAre not three steps. ©FJ Sept. 2025Recueils / Participation/
In Freedom only, God can be.Religions are traps for people who think that God can be trapped. ©FJ_Fev 2026Recueils / Participation/ Groupes
The cheese is on the table.The religious figures, gathered around, are interspersed with polite gestures and formal speeches, each extolling the merits of the cheese
The spinal cable’s coil is in the belly (hara).During our lifetime, it sometimes activates and then seizes up. Hunched shoulders,Pelvis loses its tilt axisDorsolateral scoliosis
It is because in zazen we are supposed to have already traversed everything that the practitioner can be given the illusion of having indeed traversed
It’s nobody’s faultif you get bogged down and exhaust yourself in the literal understanding of the teachings.If the structures within were all in place, the
What percentage of your mental space is occupied by this or that aspect of your life, this or that product? It may be surprising to
Zazen teaches me that whatever thought we invite into us, the energy we devote to turning it over and over to investigate its flaws and
Zazen is all about listening to consciousness, and, whatever anyone may say or think, it requires no authorization, no diploma, no prior stamp, no special
Zazen: quitting the habit,leaving habits, the habitats of the mind, the refuges of consciousness,and reaching the depths of depths, the space of spaces,The ample nature,
I realize that if I didn’t find God, it was because I was looking for Him where he wasn’t to be found. I sought him
The spiritual obstacle for the meditation practitionner may consist of seeking outside validation for what he finds within.The obstacle for the religious person may consist
« Forgive us… as we forgive… » There is indeed a double movement necessary for the effectiveness of this statement: -You cannot truly forgive if you are
My favorite room in the world,The only one I truly want to be in, measures less than four square meters and doesn’t contain a single
In light of what is experienced in the depths of sitting meditation, everything that is said,external and internal dialogues, is nothing but fragmentary, illusory, and