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
Étiquette : practice
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
Do not speak, it is useless.
The differences between traditions are an optical illusion due to the fact that the observer stands,-either outside all traditions and has no experience of frequenting
Infinitely, He Waits
God hears our praise: this means that, through praise, the heart of the practitioner harmonises with the divine, with the real, with the Logos,And the
Ropes and Rituals
When you make all the practice-maintaining ropes (i.e., ritual) disappear,The practice disappears: it loses its forms and tends to become shapeless, until there is nothing
Coming Back To The Sitting Stable
Even if the world seems to persist in doing everything to keep forgetting, the body knows the sitting posture…and as soon as it stops being led
The Living Rituals
In Zen, rituals are everywhereAs soon as attention falls onthe object I am holding,the step of my walk,the words of my speech,the living rituals unfold.
No Donut
I don’t do sunbathes,don’t consume anythingdon’t have a cooler,or a towel. I do not participate in ball games,nor do I enjoy sandcastles, I pass through
Outstretched Hand
If, of all outstretched hands, I grasped that of the sitting practice, it is because it brings me, by its great silence, the space to
Unique Piece
Surprisingly, to make a Western mind understand what is meant by Dharma, in the sense of ‘cosmic order’, ‘infinite reality’, it is relevant to go
Notes & Silence 