Tearing up the Cement SkyStanding far from silence,without knowing it,so far,lamenting the dryness,of the ground, of the cracked feet,of the lips that have becomeunable to
Étiquette : practice
Washing the Bowl
When sitting, give birth to the hope of stopping stuffing your head with concepts of spirituality, When sitting, see yourself dipped in the artificial sauce
Healing Through Impermanence
When attachment is identified by the practitioner as a source of suffering and this understanding alone is not enough to allow him to free himself
My life’s Work
I sometimes considerthat all these texts,the majority,The best part,are not mine, They appear in my mind,When my body is in posture and my thoughts pass
Live and Let Die
Nothing is more beautiful than a man sitting in the lotus positionand lets die within himself the ten thousand hells of smoke. ©FJ March 2025Recueils
Keep Faith, Expect Nothing
Have faith in the dive of consciousness,It is not stopped by the dense waters of material manifestations, Perhaps you will need hundreds, thousands of hours
Answer to I.: Hope
I would say that… Hope is not in the same register as thought.. but belongs to another inner plane. In Christian terms, perhaps it is
What is good, what is not
Suddenly finding the space from which we realize that nothing is serious, that regret, remorse, guilt have no place and are only fueled by us
Zen does not build from the past
Zen, Zen, Zen,what does it matter ? Zen does not exist,Zen does not exist anywhere else but in you, here and now, What you extrapolate
Point Of Contact
The two thumbs touching,Sacred mudra, opening of the vortex,The two parts of the hertzian spectrum become sinusoid.The brain wave is the surface through which the
In the Far Distance As In the Inside Close
Thanks to a landscape that I was allowed to glimpse,above the low wall of consciousness, a country of vast lands and seas,of eye-widening blue-greens. Thanks
Immediacy
Silent sitting: there is no access to the divine more immediate.Sitting is the very definition of spiritual immediacy. ©FJ Jan 2025Recueils / Participation/ Groupe Discord
Path Back To Sanpai
If your sanpai* is heavy, it is because your head is full,empty your head and find the path of prostration. Empty sanpai: all the expectations,
No Kesa
Do not feed attachment for the kesa.In the common sense of the term, I do not wear one, nor do I have one available that
Contract, Expand
Zazen, shikantaza,Is the only practice I know that has the property to expand by contracting.When one comes to practicing nothing other than silent sitting,a broadening
Notes & Silence 