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
Étiquette : mind
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.
In The Middle
It is the conceptual drifts of the corpus of religion that pushed me towards the raw path of sitting.It was the egotistical drifts of free-wheeling
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
‘Effata’
Effata : free yourself, here and now,Drop, forget, let it all fall on the ground,All the devices of your mind,Those of religions, of others,Those that
Conceptual reflex
With two pieces of string,two strands of concept lying on the ground,Two lianas of ideology swaying in the wind,Man will knit you a God. This
Binary
The meditative experience is, after all, quite binary: – Either we pass through thoughts,– Or we remain a prisoner. Franck – July 2023–Recueils – Participations
Inner Shift
Inner disengagementThese two hands suddenly partThe being is observed.Suddenly, it becomes its own object of study, Inner uncouplingThe eye recedesFrom the psychic vehicle,The eye looks
Where to return
But how did I get here? I can’t really remember. Alone, listening to the call from the depth, a call, a place, another place,Sitting practice…
All Books
All books,even the most important to you.yes, even this one,are no different from the jumble of the intellect.Really, what are you still looking for ?
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
Obsessed
Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, in the end,Zen is also often the object of a conceptual obsession, in the same way God is one for the
Notes & Silence 