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
Étiquette : practice
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
Calling God
God means true nature,God means depthWhat is divine is that which pertains to this profound nature.God is the personification of the expression of this nature,
Sitting Practice : Transmitter-Receiver
Consider the following two dimensions of our sitting practice : Both Transmitter and Receiver, the posture teaches the worlds and receives the teaching of the
Still Looking Outside?
Once you have seen the center, the alignment, that you have let the well of consciousness gush through your eyes, stream to your lips, why
Practicing zazen
One can practice zazen until zazen disappears,and reduce one’s practice so that the practice disappears. ©FJ Dec. 2024Recueils / Participation/ Groupe Discord
Footnote
Kodo Sawaki says that all Buddhism is just a footnote to the practice of silent sitting, A footnote is a complementary, accessory teaching, a potentially
Notes & Silence 