Belief in a self is the obstacle to compassion, emptiness,selflessness and allows compassion, emptiness begets compassion,compassion allows the realization of emptiness, Shiki soku ze kuku
Étiquette : practice
« You’re a big boy now… »
You’re bigger, broader, freer than that, « leave this body-mind. »Like a father who raises his voice a little to his young child, who doesn’t dare go
Lonely Potato
It is fair to argue that meditating alone is to risk being trapped within one’s own projections, without ever experiencing the favor of a fragment
Happy Arrangement
It is intellectual effort that gives rise to the solution in thoughts.It emerges owing to a happy arrangement from the depths. The energy of the
Alerte Faux Maître
Quelques indices que celui que l’on présente comme maître n’en est pas un : – il exprime une tension émotionnelle, colère, agitation désordonnée– il réfère à
Trapping God
In Freedom only, God can be.Religions are traps for people who think that God can be trapped. ©FJ_Fev 2026Recueils / Participation/ Groupes
« Too intense, I don’t have the words… »
In some cases, claiming the inability of words to express what we feel amounts to absolving ourselves of any responsibility for our failure to try
Shin Jin Datsu Raku (again)
« Leave the body-mind » Dogen’s body-mind, the one that must be « left » according to the famous injunction given to monks in zazen, can also refer to
The Below, The Above (1)
Leaving the mindthrough the floor,through the ceiling,are two different experiences.The investigation of the infra-mental and supra-mental spheres are two different journeys. Infra, here, means « not
The First Gate
It is because in zazen we are supposed to have already traversed everything that the practitioner can be given the illusion of having indeed traversed
Les Yeux Dans Le Noir
Ouvrir les yeux dans le noir complet est une pratique très reposante, à laquelle on ne prête pas suffisamment attention. Les yeux et le mental
Words Do Not Make Zen
Zen is silence above all.It has nothing to do with the reconstruction of more or less fantasized traditions.When you sit in silence and stand in
Liberating Fish
I think of the symbol of infinity, the lying ‘eight’ figure.Few people know that it is also a symbol of hell because this loop is
Sunflower
Zazen: I listen to my body set up, sit in class, prepare to receive the teaching.I watch the hollow sections align to form the conduit
Assis Devant La Vitre
Le mental attire à lui l’énergie intérieure, physique et psychique et les consume dans le brasier de la salle des machines.L’utilisation conventionnelle du mental est
Notes & Silence 