The day will come,Because it eventually has to,When all the business filling your life,The one you’ve grabbed hold of all these days,Until the backwash of
Étiquette : life
Stealing Back Time
Banging my head in your narrow minds is suffocating : I need to get out.And I’ve withered long enough in the dullness of your aspirations.Your complacency
A Zen Garden Allegory
Matthew walks across the Zen garden of Kodaiji temple in Kyoto.He slowly moves forward along the dense thickets. Large rocks have put on a wet
Prospects of Extinction
The virus is spreading and everyone wants it to end.It tries to survive, to outlive everyone.It struggles, mutates and end up putting out, once it
Now Is The Time To Start Existing
Compelled by the oppressive context of our collective daily life, the one to which, as a people, a part of humanity, we are tied, I
The Google Cord
I see such entities — Google, and the rest — as a parent both near and far, that we anxiously question as soon as the
The Koan Of My Life
The koan of my life, up to now, is as follows :‘How to be a wandering monk without being a wandering monk ?’ How can
The Accordion Principle
The times of old age already herald the times of childhood,And the watermarked child appears through the old man.Relaxation and contraction: childhood unfurls again.Even though
Slimy Spirituality
What we call ‘spirituality’Is often the art of plasteringwith full silos of slimy glueSomething swift and simplePeople keep jumping from one silo to the next…Salutary
God Is Hovering (1/2) -notes
I sometimes feel God is brooding on thoughtsIn our inner language, God is taking shapeThrough words, God may hatch out.Way ahead of all this maturation
The Grace Is Gone (Quote)
Notice the grace,The grace is gone. ©FJ May 2021 – Groupe de PratiqueRecueils — Participations
« I Am Awakened »
« If you meet the Buddha, kill him »,This is a common statement in Zen Buddhism… This is how it resonates in me, today : If you hear
Where My Heart Is
My job, my love, my life, here it is :How much of an ignorant fool must one be To search for any meaning elsewhere.Where my
The Illu-Zone (1/2)
This may sound as a derogatory term : ‘disillusioned’ comes to tag those among us who jar with the channels of common enthusiasm.We have entered the diktat
Meet the Journalist
Still digging out old posts….from earlier sitting sessions, back in 2016. I recently bumped into someone I had never met before.Someone I know more than
Notes & Silence 