There are people for whom it is very important to give God a name, others for whom the name given to God doesn’t really matter.Still
Étiquette : practice
Unsinkable
Sometimes the amplitude of the mind’s movements changes,It increases,Don’t be fooled,The breaking waves that rock the hull in all directions, that seem to threaten to
Sitting, On the Way to the Stable
The body in zazen is the horse that leads us back to the stable,The mind, the rider who searches but doesn’t know where he’s going,So,
Never Through Thoughts
Zazen teaches me that whatever thought we invite into us, the energy we devote to turning it over and over to investigate its flaws and
The Path to Peace
Non-discrimination is the absence of discrimination between what is presented to us.Thus, there is no individual, no situation that we like or reject more than
No Stamp
Zazen is all about listening to consciousness, and, whatever anyone may say or think, it requires no authorization, no diploma, no prior stamp, no special
La Respiration Perce
La respiration perce le plancher des mots.Écrire que la respiration perce le plancher des mots,voilà qui est blasphématoire.Écrire qu’il est blasphématoire de dire que la
Everything Is Important
In Zen,Everything is eminently important,Also, every detail deserves supreme attention,and nothing really matters. ©FJ_August 2025Recueils / Participation/
A Good Slap
Zazen is still a good slapTo the Sir or Madam,That we call ourselvesAnd think we are, Every day…A good slapWhat happens to those who don’t
Le Souffle Au Travers
L’assise silencieuse est l’aventure ultime en terre de spiritualité.La pratique inclut les 10 000 stations que le pèlerin traverse,en cela, l’assise silencieuse, est le royaume
All Names
What I see anchored to the heart, Heart emerging from the Heart, why must I name it? Why not give it all names? God, Mercy,
Universal Christ
The dialectic of time and history proposed by Christianity is not necessarily incompatible with the broader dialectic of Mahayana Buddhism. It can be perfectly integrated
Interdependence
Two remarks on what the reality of the conditioned co-production of phenomena in Buddhism directly implies: the interdependence of everything and the absence of self.
Hysteria of the Faithful
What keeps me at a distance from the Christian religion, and others…., sometimes to the point of losing the ability to find inner meaning, is
‘As We Forgive’
« Forgive us… as we forgive… » There is indeed a double movement necessary for the effectiveness of this statement: -You cannot truly forgive if you are
Notes & Silence 