It is often said that physical death is not the opposite of life.Yet, I feel as if I were the one initiating this revelation.This sentence
Étiquette : meditation
Cross Of Life
Meditating on the Cross is contemplating the power of the SpiritTo transform, to glorify, and to haveAll the heavy, the entangled, the ugly, the stagnating,Spring
Spiritual Hygiene
Non-attachment to the external forms of religion (including our relation to rituals, to conceptual colors or linguistic mechanisms) in general, and non-attachement to a certain
Ears to Hear
Jesus said : “He who has ears to hear, …”He is echoing what is written in Isaiah, 32, 3 : “Then the eyes of those
The One Need For The Soul
There can be no knowledge coming from the exogenous questTo refrain from melting when approaching the Hearth of the Presence.The disciple heating his heart to
Nothing Left
On a certain level of silence, there is nothing which can still remainbeside faith and the call from Being.Nothing as powerful, no knowledge as certain
The Shadows Of Representations
The truth is as follows.I wished it were different.I’ve been to Japan and have not found anything more spiritual than what I had in this
Prayers Arise
The incense of love gently swirling from the bottom of my soul :I can’t find it in your explanations, justifications nor in the chants and
Let Believers Be Engulfed
Why do ‘believers” have to be fully obsessed with trying to obstruct Life,To strangle Life between their nervous fingers ? How can we not end
Joining All Paths
You know, in the secret of your heartAll the ways are joining hands,What do you have to fearFrom abandoning them all,And walking along the Unique
Wrinkled Hands
Joining and BowingMy two wrinkled handsI do not know any wilder joy. ©FJ Nov 2021RECUEILS/ ParticipationsTelegram (Publications et Pratique)
Sensual Path
Song of Songs, 1: 4 : ‘The King has brought me into his chambers’. As the pilgrim passes by, the dividing walls hiding the sensual
Gratitude Toward Mind-Winds
I feel gratitude for these concerns, compulsions and circular thoughts that keep arising again and again in my mind,Those mental energies which agitate this mind
Sacrament Of Forgiveness
Sitting zazen, there is a sacrament of forgiveness.Towards others, of course, forgiveness dawning in the horizon,Towards ourselves, forgiveness we receive. The heart of zazen is
Paradises
When I was ten years old, I believed in paradise.The Christian one,The Muslim oneThe Jewish paradise,And I believed in the ‘reincarnations’ of Tibetan Buddhism…I believe
Notes & Silence 