Be careful not to pull the blanket of concepts to yourself.Let your body encounter the coolness of the night air.Nothing can replace the truth that
Étiquette : freedom
Too Organised
The zazen I practice is not that of religious posturing where one adorns oneself in dark robes and sprinkles one’s discourse with Japanese-sounding words. The
Acupuncture of Attachment
Attachment is to phenomena what energy blockage is to the body.Stimulating the acupuncture point sets the energies in motion again and allows the individual to
The Three Withouts
Zazen is the window of survival.It only takes a glimpse of space,for a millisecond, and all of existence is forever transformed. If one can breathe
Meta-Prayer: Open the door
The practice of zazen, sitting,Simple and quietIs the practice of prayer that contains them all.Zazen is the meta prayerNot being of any religion. However, there
Zazen Christ Zazen Christ
The more I practice zazen, the more I encounter the depth of Christ’s teachings.The more I encounter Christ’s teachings, the more I practice zazen. The
Are you done, now ?
When you have broken all the rules, pushed all the boundaries beyond all limits,After using every trick in the book—derision and detachment—Then it will be
Gone Gone Zen
When everything has been subtracted from the practice of zazen,there remains the task of removing zazen from zazen,so that simple sitting is empty of simple
Stagnation Words
All egotistical speech (Packaging words that aim at telling oneself) is a sound of heaviness, density and stagnation. It carries and expresses an energy that
Let’s Meet At Night
Let’s meet at nightat the corner of the landscape,and lift it, There, at the corner, we can lift some element of the scenery that holds
The Spirit Behind Words
You tell me that there are words that a wise mind on the spiritual path would do well to be wary of: – “The Heart,”
The Smoking Pharaoh
When Pharaoh, between each of the plagues of Egypt, promises to liberate the people (only to further entrench his rule), he speaks with the voice
No Hold
When the Buddha speaks of anatta, non-self, he is not denying the atman, as a hasty interpretation might suggest. It’s not about saying that the
That’s How It Is…
Whatever the system, it will necessarily encourage the rise of the most representative and respectful elements of the system, since self-preservation is ultimately the sole
Our Limits
Truly open to the divine, the spirit of discrimination between religions has disappeared and the greatness of the divine pervades them all. What we perceived
