Awakening is a bird entering the room, meditation is the open window.Sometimes, put a few crumbs on the windowsill. Once a year may be enough
Awakening is a bird entering the room, meditation is the open window.Sometimes, put a few crumbs on the windowsill. Once a year may be enough
The bald man, whom I eyed with suspicion, was right. Yet I saw in his words yet another gratuitous provocation, one for which he had
Me, a musician, my whole life… I, who have spent so many hundreds of hours trying to tame exercises and scales, trying to appropriate the
In the same way that we always learn a few words in the language of our host,even though my practice takes the form of the
Having reached a certain point, a certain form of interest in music,particularly focused on identity-related discussions, defense of point of view,is a stagnation to be
Silent sitting: there is no access to the divine more immediate.Sitting is the very definition of spiritual immediacy. ©FJ Jan 2025Recueils / Participation/ Groupe Discord
Do not feed attachment for the kesa.In the common sense of the term, I do not wear one, nor do I have one available that
March 2023: Many people are experiencing an inner collapse and are suffering terribly from seeing all the landmarks with which they have always built themselves
Heard this morning while being…normally distracted.These words like a line sent to me, hooked me out of the ignorance pool.May they hook you out as well.
Kodo Sawaki says that all Buddhism is just a footnote to the practice of silent sitting, A footnote is a complementary, accessory teaching, a potentially
Religion, its beliefs and its expressions (practice/rituals) often constitute the ultimate area of attachment for the pilgrim along the Way. The last rope that keeps
Realizing that religions are an artificial reading grid that we add to the world.Removing the grid from in front of our eyes.Freeing ourselves This is
While the contours of ‘religion’ phenomenon are clearly emerging as a psychological fog, self-induced and self-sustained by socio-cultural factors, I consider 2 scenarios: – either
There is no practice,Practice does not exist,It is a word that is used to come and magnetize all kinds of mental constructions. No practice,No gesture,No
Religion provides mental objectsWith which we initiate and sustain a relationship,Religion then suggests playing with the objects it has provided.Religion is a toy store.Several brands,