-Where Are You Listening From?-The Lower Center Much more than the actual content of the text or the teachings, it is the heart with which
Étiquette : practice
Recognizing Freedom
The great freedom I am talking about is an indicator of the springing forth of a real practice.The inability to let this freedom take shape,
Opening the Door of the Spirit
Silent sitting opens the door of the Spirit,Lightens the inner eyes,Sit down, try and see. You have to sit to believe it.Through zazen, the profound
Mother Tongue
I really feel like I can’t do anything about it…if those texts and words resonate in hollow letters,if those messages don’t do not adhere to
Modern Sadness
The contemporary world persists in muddying the waters of the soul and maintaining them troubled.Thus, our being is kept away from his deep aspirationsand condemned
The Hidden Face of the Eye
The first step of the famous Return is the Turnaround,The eye is at the door,The eye is at the door of the eye, The eye
Who else but God to lift the veil of God?
The veil represents the opacifying set of concepts aggregated around the divine. The veil is adhesive because these concepts are striking and emotionally very charged:
Spreading the Cloth of Consciousness
It is only in Zazen that I find the space to spread the cloth of our deep nature,The cloth of consciousness, because zazen has made
Kneading With Your Feet
By kinhin, meditative walk in Zen, you knead the dough of awakening.By zazen, sitting meditation, you cook it Outside the cushion, you offer bread to
Spiritual Survival
Being rooted in a tradition, then following a path of ordination, a path of formalizing the commitment to this tradition is often an objective for
Harp of the Heart
And if something resonates within you – book, word, teaching,It is because it is already there.This arpeggio of inner strings, this harp in the depths
Gnosis
It is really difficult to accept that spirituality is not one more learning, or yet another set of elements to acquire by effort and study,
Lost
The rigor of the framework of practice,The discipline against which we would have a thousand things to write, each justified in its own way… nevertheless
Forehead On The Floor
I have underestimated the importance of prostration for so long. I see today from the inside and unexpectedly, in the eyes of others as in
Living Spirituality
I am alive.My spirituality is alive,I practice the spirituality that crosses my path and reveals to me the life it contains.The spirituality that I practice
Notes & Silence 