Just as we carry the prophet within us, we alone are the community, the community of ears that receive within us all the voices that
Étiquette : master
The Inner Prophet 1/2
The prophet is within us.The one who listens, the one who hears.In us, the prophet is that which listens, that which hears, that which receives
Practice: shut up and leave.
3 types of people in spiritual circles: Among disciples, the three most common profiles are found successively in the same person (or even synchronously): -Those
Master/Disciple
If I want to be perfectly honest, I must admit that there is a strong element of fantasy in the master/disciple relationship: the disciple projects
Phony Master Alert
Some clues that the one presented as a master is actually not one: – he shows emotional tension, anger, and agitation– he refers to himself
Gratitude, no object nor recipient,
Gratitude is without recipient,Gratitude towards the infinite is infinite gratitude. The gratitude that invades me through the posture, flows to and beyond my master, his
The Whole World In Your Eye
When the Master teaches the posture, he brings him nothing new.The master is the sculptor who reveals the statue contained within the stone.The master pierces
Look Closer
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
Spiritual Success
In a spiritual approach, what to do with this more or less persistent or discontinuous will which consists of ‘wanting to receive’ ? In the
Baby Disciple
What questions me, through religions and practices, is the need to be infantilized as a component sought by certain people. They feel an attraction for
The Master’s Excesses
The Middle Way is also having to stand halfway between obsessive rigor and unbridled hedonistic permissiveness.The Middle Way is wisdom It is taken by the
Meeting and Disappearing
Shido Bunan, master of the master of Hakuin:« There is no instruction, no particular method to study the way,It is enough to see and hear directly.By
Counter Relief
At the heart of silent sitting,the practice does not exist,where sitting is still,the heart of the practice does not express itself.In simple sitting,there is no
« My Master Said…. »
There necessarily comes a time in spirituality when the book ceases to be what it was: a « tool of valorisation », the additional stone on which
The Bottom Of Pockets
(note shared with my friend R. this morning) The incarnation of the Dharma….Who embodies the Dharma of the Buddha? Today, I realize that I have
Notes & Silence 