The peaceful mind will no longer burn all the wood for itself.The psychologic wood will be there. The inner forest, verdant, sheltering passing beings.The peaceful
Étiquette : practice
Consciousness and Rice Paper
The layers of consciousness are like layers of rice paper on the windows.We pierce them one by one, or all at once in the process
Sacrilege
The true sacrilege consists of not practicing when your consciousness allows it.However, if you don’t practice when you have the possibility to do so, it’s
Heaven and Hell
Read in Thich Nhat Hanh in one of the Commentaries on the 50 Stances of Consciousness.This resonates with the childhood intuition recounted elsewhere in these
Let the Bird Enter
Awakening is a bird entering the room, meditation is the open window.Sometimes, put a few crumbs on the windowsill. Once a year may be enough
Dogen, Rephrasing :
To study the Way is accessing oneself.Accessing oneself is accessing something greater than oneself.Accessing something greater than oneself is being informed, fulfilled by all existences.
Through The Island
Zazen is the ultimate posture.All other beliefs, traditions, and expressions are stations prior to zazen. Zazen is the universal foundation, transcending all religions and yet
Amputating The Soul
Prayer is, in essence, an act of harmonization between the practitioner and reality, the universe, deep nature, God.It is the practitioner’s response to the constant
True Prayer
A prayer that does not involve the bodywill tend toward barren repetition. Prayer will stimulate the mind all the more easilybecause it does not invite
Do You Know How to Fall?
In judo, one of the first lessons is learning how to fall.Thus, when the practitioner is in a real fall situation,he will remember the repeated
The Breath-Through
Silent sitting is the ultimate adventure in the land of spirituality.The practice includes the 10,000 gates that the pilgrim crosses, in this, silent sitting is
Complex Body, Simple Body
The human body is so much more complex than what the so-called modern medical sciences can understand.It goes beyond and tears apart the categorical blocks
Arrival Gate
I sometimes go over my intention to avoid the feeling of pretension that these few words could initiate in the reader…They seem true to me:
Welcoming the Sound
Me, a musician, my whole life… I, who have spent so many hundreds of hours trying to tame exercises and scales, trying to appropriate the
Eternal Prayer
Ritual prayer: I am seized by a surge of joya joy bathed in sweetnessat the very heart of the prayer that I approach this morning
Notes & Silence 