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
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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
A Master’s Game
Would we recognize a true master if we met one ?Could you admit, with me, that one has to have played this game, thought about
Un-Hoped For Vows From A Boddhisattva
This sadness is unfathomable,Through this practice, I sit beyond. Mistakes from the past are beyond repair.Through this practice, I wipe them all and sit beyond.
Patchy Representations
The contentious status of a relation to the other is, before anything else, a relation to all conflict energies present in the relation we have
Burning Zazen
Zazen, act of compassion, toward ourselves and the world.Not in a two-step movement,But in a single moment.Through this sitting, emerges an opportunity for all fires
The Taste Of Life
Whenever the taste of life rises to my mouth,Without a reason why, without anything extraordinary going on,One stick of incense in a hand, one candle
Notes & Silence 