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
Étiquette : practice
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
To the Breathless Soul
It is good, in spiritual practice to have moments of conceptual purge.To empty oneself of all the cerebral clusters,To pierce the pockets of agglomerated words.To
Chasing the Shadow on the Wall
It is always astonishing to observe the ability of the mind to emulate the non-mind.Why does it act this way ?By survival reflex, because it
Healthy Distances
Man does not need a cardboard spirituality.Man needs a living spirituality.I once found it in Zen, and kept healthy distances from all formalism in practice
Honouring Practice
I observe in my practice that an important aspect of meditation and prayer to which too little attention is paid is the way in which
Right Recitation
When I recite the mantra, the phrase, the name, I can move back inside enough to embrace the one who recites with consciousness.The practice is
Silence Takes You Beyond
Although locked, the posture of zazen is a key.It opens the door of your consciousness to the realities that go beyond you.Although motionless, the cushion
Digging, Expanding
In summary, what spirituality teaches me:Conflicts are resolved by digging and expanding. That is to say that the superficiality of approach and/or the lack of
Silence
Our sitting practice teaches the place of silence;It puts silence back in its place.It allows the work of distancing the oppressive content, or invisible when
Dusty Practice
When the block of stones collapses to the ground,The cloud of dust it generated is so dense, so unexpected, that it comes to obscure the
Notes & Silence 