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
Étiquette : master
« 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
The Caress Is A Meditation
Skin has the power to silence words.The broth of thoughts feeds, stirs and overflows,It pours out the mind-soup and soaks the entire being.Through this infernal
Unique Experience
I remember the famous passage from Dogen Zenji, « To study the Way of the Buddha is to study oneself,To study oneself is to forget oneself,
The Master is Dead
The master is dead,Since then, hiccups in the blanketFrom a large bed, cold, alreadyAnd then, nothing more. Nothing more that I hear. From my country
My Little Disciple
By chance of a short teaching delivered to my youngest disciple, relating to non-attachment, I suddenly connect the words I say and the situation I
Cheap Alibi & Puppet Show
The true master is the one who constantly points towards the everyday, the simple, the just-ahead,the one who is his teaching on an after, complex
Spiritual Techniques
It seems to me that resorting to techniques so as to trigger a certain spiritual experience reflect a lesser degree of penetration of spiritual realities
Leave the house
In a certain way, Nagarjuna succeeded, in the 13th century, the patriarchs through the back door: through a feeling of humility, …and not by the
Nudity Of Essence
Authentic Master teaches nudity,radical simplicity,unconditional immediacy, Whatever comes next in the architecture of teachings commonly stamped « Buddhist » or else …is a distancing from the essence
The Master and the Newcomer
The master is the one who, seeing the newcomer quick to make himself noticed, to unsheath conceptual knowledge, to expose his references, already sees in
Claiming The Shiho?
I hear say… How can we go and beg for a transmission ?The transmission is transmitted before being transmitted, Thus, there is no transmission What then
Intentionally left blank (note in progress)
(Quick note on my way to Sakamoto area, Otsu, Shiga, while reading the first pages of Zen Ritual, by Steven Heine…) If I write « this
Halogen And Dead Mosquitoes
In the fields of ‘spirituality’,He who reaps is he who affirms. The more a protagonist will be assertive and peremptory,The greater the influx and ardor
Notes & Silence 