Do not address the object of desirethis aspect is unimportant.Understand that it stems from the same impulseregardless of the nature of the object. ©FJ August
Étiquette : peace
What has seen has seen
When one has understood the modality of things, that is, the place from which things are expressed,When the manner in which things are expressed has
Anatta
AnattaNon-selfis a directionindicated by the awakened one. Anatta,he places his hand on the top of your headand turns your head in the direction you must
Healing Without a ‘How’
Spirituality: Many get lost in the ‘how’.Zazen: It is neither useful nor relevant to dissect the healing mechanism.What matters is the effectiveness of the process.Understanding
The Path to Peace
Non-discrimination is the absence of discrimination between whatever is presented to us.Thus, there is no individual, no situation that we like or reject more than
Questioning the Ground
The first row of mental blocks must be placed on calm, peaceful ground.If this isn’t the case, none of the structures located there deserve our
The Entrepreneurial Mind
The entrepreneurial mind, when too sharp, seeks to build and, in doing so, does not allow the emergence, existence, and disintegration of everything that emerges
Great Pool
Equanimity is ultimately the great pool in which nothing is as important as we think. The great pool,The great ocean,The vast mind,The one mind ©FJ
Endless Surrender
In kinhin*, with the front foot, I return to the earth, with the exhalation, I lead into the ground.With the back foot, I release, I
The Nature of Nature
If the materials from your religion are part of what blocks the path to Being, this is an indicator of the distortion of these materials,
The Eternal Now
God Now,For God is always now, This is what Zen teaches,God is now, This is so true that God and now are synonymous.Now is the
In The Word
In the beginning was the WordIn the Word are already present all words, all languages, All the thoughts, all the inner impulses of God,In the
As We Lay Dying
Christ is also the whole of creation.Understanding this avoids many straying into dead ends where exacerbated identification reveals itself ‘as we lay dying’ in such
Feeding the Whole Being
The parable of the seed that does not grow on the edge of the road (Matthew 13:1-23) can be understood as an invitation to dwell
Grasp the Rope Where It Is
We can gauge the harmfulness of a thought by its potential for confinement.How impermeable are its walls?To what extent does it hold us captive? This
Notes & Silence 