The shadow of the leavesFrom a garden over the fenceSlowly set in motionBy the wind of spring Beauty struckDoubt has vanishedWalking through lifeOn such a
Étiquette : peace
Just
The only thing we should remember in our practice is how easy it is to forget the ‘just’ in ‘just sitting’. FJ Fev 2022Recueils /
Buddha Zazen
Deshimaru, when commenting the Shin Jin Mei :‘An individual zazen will remain inefficient for the rest of our life,A cosmic zazen can be called ‘Buddha-Zazen’ Who
Contacting Fragility
Arrogance is often the stark outcome of a fragility which has been disconnected from reality.This is as painful as the screeching sound of an engine when
Tossing Back The Lid
The immediate contact with the depths of their being :This is what they’re all scared about. As soon as they can sense its emerging premises, it
The Grace Of Unfairness ?
Ending up as a victim of unfairness, is a suffering place where people experience an acute feeling of loneliness.If there is such a pain at
The Gift Of Freedom
It takes a freight of bravery, a serious hint of boldness,A disarming truckload of grace, a wild gift of freedom,To play one’s way through diverse
All Reality Down The Singing Bowl
Have you come to realize that all the words you are reciting,Matter much less than the quality of your presence as you are reciting them ?Rituals,
Days Like This
There are days when the sitting practice is the only moment of authenticity.Our surge of tears rises once we realize the black hole of vanity
The Door Within Rituals
Behind every gesture, every ritual, chant,Behind every practice of a small religion,You’ll find a door opening onto the Large Religion, To all appearances, small religions
Syntax Of Life
There are two ways to place oneself in a relation to life.The intellectual difference between grammar and linguistics has something to teach us. Grammar proposes
Fleeing Process
As long as you do not reside in the Absolute, you are fleeing,Don’t start chasing the Absolute, for you’d be fleeing,You need to see the
True Practice
Whenever you sit, genuinely,When you disarm all gears and stop entrenching yourself behind the codes maintaining the structures of others’ sitting practice. Whenever the last
Excited Emotions
Being in such a way that our absence does not generate a feeling of absence,Instantly disarming any attempt at attaching,Is this sheer cruelty or a
Night Nutriments
Unspeakable sounds decimate the forests of my nights.Ancestral inhabitants, friendly residents,Flee towards other dark fogs of silence. Acid rains of the unsaidDrip through leaves and
Notes & Silence 