A sincere practice of Zen must necessarily lead to a threshold, beyond which it is impossible to continue the journey thus laden with conceptual tools,
Étiquette : mind
Withdrawn
I have withdrawn,from so long times spent in the emulsions of the foam,on the surface of the wet sand, Today, I have withdrawn,I have lost
Ignorance
-What is ignorance? -Believing that one dwells in the sphere of thoughts, plus the consequences of this belief (identifications, perception of reality, through the prism
Where Is Your Wickedness?
The wickedness we retrospectively attribute to others, at the moment this attribution occurs, is a fabrication of the mind. As such, it has no real
Psalm 31- notes
« In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness.« : the inalienable nature of the
Silent Recitation
Equanimity is the great pool where, in the end, all is well.Equanimity is what we forget again and again. Zazen is the silent recitation of
Mesure de l’avancement spirituel
-Comment mesurer l’avancement spirituel du disciple ?– Au degré d’authenticité lors de son inclinaison, à la profondeur de son gassho*,-Comment cela se mesure ?-Cela ne se mesure
A Thought Monster-Truck
Social networks mirror our thought activity.They’re very much like the mind,Always attracted towards the shiniest, scariest, creepies content and manufacturing more similar content outfit.This is
Optimized Tools And Narrowed Mind
Mechanical thinking, that of processes, hierarchies, and steps, is the mode of thinking that generates the greatest exhaustion. Yet it is the one we use
Theological Misdirection
As long as God is an idea, however sumptuous, you are always in the sterile and suffering-generating insularity of the mind bubble. Theology brews ideas
What is a mind at peace ? (1/2)
-What is the agitation of the mind ?-That which burns everything that passes because it is afraid of disappearing. -Why is the mind afraid of
What is a mind at peace ? (1/2)
The peaceful mind will no longer burn all the wood for itself.The psychologic wood will be there. The inner forest, verdant, sheltering passing beings.The peaceful
Sacrilege
The true sacrilege consists of not practicing when your consciousness allows it.However, if you don’t practice when you have the possibility to do so, it’s
Welcoming the Sound
Me, a musician, my whole life… I, who have spent so many hundreds of hours trying to tame exercises and scales, trying to appropriate the
Have Confidence
We must have confidenceremember that we can have confidencein the fact that the psychological, somatic waves,– violent, sometimes, – which come to cross, or submerge
Notes & Silence 