The attraction for Zen seems to strike more intensely the pilgrims with a prominent ego and developed cognitive faculties…this attraction, more or less consciously, provides
Étiquette : life
That Which Dissolves
Prayer speaks to your heart.It calls to it.In it, it is at home. Can you hand it over to greater than yourself?Lay it at the
Wild Spirit
Religion is a vector of spirituality.It is the vehicle of spiritual life and not the matrix thereof.This life, my beating heart,The vehicle that transports this
Striking the Match
Many practitioners who are very advanced in religious traditions, fine connoisseurs of repeated texts, many very skilled believers, very quick in the presentation of the
Dharma Rain
Monotheistic religions offer nothing less than a path of liberation through the domestication of inner energies. These are personified, incarnated to deploy all the narrative
Praying as one quits smoking
In the first degrees of prayer, it is done in the same way that a smoker seeking to get away from his addiction will chew
Sitting Among Crumbs
The practitioner of the Way has seen in himself this insatiable desire to seize toys, his own, those of others. He perceived the error and
Dead Cat
Cut short all rantings, and post-mortem constructions, Those encapsulate the Living,They stifle Life and let you walk around, eventually,Carrying in your arms,a dead cat. Join
Misery of Wandering
When it is said of God that He is the » Ultimate Truth » (S. 24, 25), just after the condemnation to the « terrible torture », (S.24, 24),
Disbelief-Punishment (2/2)
Part 1 Dogen is only the positive counterpart of the hundreds of biblical and Koranic verses, of all the texts that seem to brandish the
On the side of joy
The vague sadness that I observe tonight while watching this documentary on Zen…Heaviness, dullnessI don’t know what it is.This is foreign to me, now. I
Surge Of Life
The free and wild soul expresses itself through questions that, rather than pushing the practitioner forward, represent an infinity of sidesteps along the path, and
Living Spirituality
I am alive.My spirituality is alive,I practice the spirituality that crosses my path and reveals to me the life it contains.The spirituality that I practice
Towards the Center and Back
People do what they do to get what they want.What people want, what they run after, I do not desire.However, I am forced to do
The Living Rituals
In Zen, rituals are everywhereAs soon as attention falls onthe object I am holding,the step of my walk,the words of my speech,the living rituals unfold.
Notes & Silence 