The annoyance felt towards an external phenomenon is due to concentrated attention, an acute focus.Learning to look at things more broadly can provide practice for
Étiquette : mind
The Great Return
Attachment is also the force preventing or slowing down all movement towards a return to inner balance.The body-mind entity tends towards homeostasis, dynamic balance and
Exoskeleton of Prayer
Reciting a text or a prayer is not a lower practice compared to silent meditation.It may prove to be a means of access to the
Harmonic Truth
Truth, rather than being restricted to a binary vision – what is true, what is not – should be understood in a much broader framework
Breaking Out Of The Wave
Spiritual practice is a wave : sitting on this wave, it is normal for the practitioner to oscillate between higher and lower points, and to
Shiki Soku Ze Ku (2)
Shiki soku ze kuKu soku ze shiki This is the kesa put into words,The kesa is the sutra turned fabric,The kesa is the illustration, the
The Other Side of the Clouds
You say: – “I am normal”,and you cannot see in your quest for normality the expression of a conflict between different levels of yourself, seeking
Conceptual Force-Feeding
No religion is exempt from conceptual force-feeding. It is up to the practitioner to get through it. Before this salutary step, he must still manage
You and Religions…
So religions seem narrow to you? Have you considered the possibility that it is in reality your understanding of religions, the way you make them
You’re not walking the Path
Sitting never ceases to reveal this: the calm behind the curtain on which your mind makes the conceptual decorum of religions’ dances, Silent sitting is
The Simple Name of Jesus
I had to wait 41 years to finally understand that my first reflex is totally ineffective..worse: it is counterproductive… -We cannot soothe ourselves through the
Junk Food of the Spirit
Until you reach silence, religion, spirituality, are just gibberish: physical equipment from the Grand Bazaar where everything is worth anything else, where nothing is worth
The Barbecue of Thoughts
Sitting in meditation, And observing the embers of thoughts Still red, Freshly excited by the winds, Those that light easily. Then burn up and disappear
The Leap Of Faith
The secret to understanding Christ is to understand that he cannot be understood.Christ is always greater than what you can understand.He is far greater than
Sincere Ignorance
Whatever the tradition, there always comes the moment when the pilgrim must focus on these psychic processes and make contact…. Which means taking his distances.
Notes & Silence 