First you need to keep silent, keep the silence, protect it, like a bodyguard.Surround it and make sure that conditions are preserved to sustain silence.
Étiquette : meditation
Healing For Good
Some difficulties are invisible, inexpressible….They can only be understood once they have left us.A sentence, a word which comes out, without warning,The body, which alleviates
My Kesa (A Robe of Words )
(Re-post) Each of these articles is a stitch on my kesa.On every sentence I have landed my attention.Sometimes stable, sometimes restless,Always trying to touch upon
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
How Could You Not End Up Alone ?
Zen destroys everything.Even there, you’re comingAnd you destroy everything. Zen accepts everything.Even there, you reject everything,And end up rejected. What are you ?A stray dog
The Awaiting
Mindful breathingAlways corresponds to the leap off the Train of ThoughtsThe leap back into the Awaiting. Franck Joseph©FJ May 2021 – All Rights ReservedArticles are
Awakening Posture
Dojo-goers who set up for the posture must pay special attention not to settle in the posture. This latter is often elevated to a dogma
A Private ‘Game’ (Note from a Dream)
I’d like to share with you something private, something intimate. This is not something I usually do. At least, not so bluntly and devoid of
To Survivors
Take a good look at the mechanical motor-racing track :The circuit where your mind is trapped.Behind the roar of enginesSit with distant eyesSee those never-ending
Peace of Mind
To find peace of mind,I would have given everything To find peace of mind,I have given everything Now that I own nothingI’m waiting for that
Fragile Land
Alone in the world, so fragileThere is no one to care for himHe slowly walks along the stripOf stones flanked by emptiness. Slapped by the
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
Opening Packages …
As unexpected to some as it may sound, Christianity and Zen Buddhism, once we go past the usual ways of perception, reveal in essence the
Sitting and Whipping
We need to sit a simple zazen,To allow space to insufflate.A ‘strong zazen’ is a constriction,The spirit of peace cannot squeeze in. A rigid and
The Illu-Zone (2/2)
Authority is connected with abuse. It is the realm of illusions.If you are one of the believers in a natural organization of subtle souls —
Notes & Silence 