What’s the method to get back to that beginner’s mind ? (Cf. Suzuki, Shoshin)There is no method.The method is the non-method. If I apply a
Étiquette : freedom
Spiritual Building Permit
From my first master,I’ll remember that we must always create, at every moment, our tradition.Practice is a meeting of living beings,I saw the momentum, the
Symbol Eater
I once knew someone terribly greedy. Along his quest for unity, he would pick up all the symbols he encountered along the way and put
Initiation Swamp
There is a moment on the path when one stops chasing initiations,And starts seeking silence. Beyond this passage, the words move away,All noise melts and
Meaning Of Truth
Truth means genuine,not a claim of objectivitynot a certificate of propertya long gone knowledge resonating again,a clogged up stream flowing again,doing what streams are supposed
Talk about God ?
So you want to talk about God.But what god do you want to talk to me about? All these words sketch a god that I
Sutra In The Garden
My teacher used to say that it was useless to always read the sutras of the past.Besides, he had great respect for them. He said
Gaseous Rings
I look around at my brothers and cousins and I say to myself that the practice of zazen, abrupt, naked, dry, sometimes,spares us many worries
More Of This, Less Of That
The posture of Zazen has nothing to do with “more of this, less of that”.In Zazen, my whole being stands to embrace the Buddha,Approaching the
Free Your Zazen
My friends, this is what, without authority or legitimacy, I enjoin you, I invite you to do.Free your Zazen,Free yourself. Your practice is under control.Supervision
Manual / Life
Whatever the book, however holy or comforting it may be,It can only lead you to the river, drop you on the bank. The book will
And you, have you learned your freedom ?
The outbursts of media violence have torn to pieces the sails of our Ships of Tranquility,The flashes of political decisions broke our Masts of RecklessnessThe
My Body In Reality
Buddhism was this brilliant, spacious teaching,Zen, lively and breathing, creates my body in reality. And the Buddha is not the Buddha,That’s why I call him
Raked with Breath
The depth of life experience has nothing to do with anything which can ever be written.Life, however, is always the same.It is inhabited in a
Buddhist Parasite
It is not because Zen leans quite easily on Buddhism, or because both ended up getting along, that Zen is Buddhist. Zen, which accepts everything,
Notes & Silence 