Whether you’re a Buddhist or not, Zen Monk or not,Don’t you always end up sitting Zazen ? Every night, therefore, I train for the end of
Étiquette : practice
Straw Fire (1/2)
Exhausted beings, knotted together,Entangled in others’ links,Littering the ground with ashes,Burned skin and worn-out hearts. In this place, however, the fatigue of the soul,May teach
Whose Dharma Is This ?
Here, the vagueness of the genitive is deceitful and its investigation, provocative: ‘The Dharma of the Buddha doesn’t mean that the former belongs to the
Morning Desire
The most appropriate moment to observe desire in its works is in the early morning. Lying in the half drowsiness of post-sleep, comfortably lying on
The Consciousness Horse
It only takes faithIn the Consciousness Horse,Whenever he panics or gets confused by my wanderingsThere’s no need to bridle him on the left, to force
Sudden Disintegration
The practice of meditation is utterly thorough.It contains both everything we want to see happenand everything we don’t want to see happen.Everything that does not
The Stove of Sitting
Thoughts aggregate into lumps.And the larger the amount of debris in the psychic soup, the easier it will be for that cluster to embark the
In the Drawer Of Our Body
As one folds one’s clothes before placing them in the chest of drawers,You should arrange your mind correctly before falling asleep, so that when you
Think Tank
How many more years shall I spendHanging around in the rancid juice of thoughts ? Operating from the mind module is dipping into the tank
Our Silence Answers
In Zen and Catholic or Evangelic Christianity alike, among others, it is not unusual to come across this peremptory tone, the same insane assertiveness…Unexpectedly, this
Summer Field
1In the Summer field,Sitting meditation cannot beginWithout removing small branches and pine apples from under the blanket 2In the middle of the Summer field,Sitting practice
Spiritual Hobby
The unintended mistake, made sometimes in the most casual manner, by mimicry, by lack of inspiration, by mimicry of the ambient lack of inspiration, consists
Zen Includes
Understanding sitting meditation as a form of mind training, is a form of misunderstanding of what zazen is. Zazen includes this form of meditation,It does
Activate ‘Doing’
It is only by penetrating the heart of ‘non-doing’ that we can truly activate ‘doing’. ©FJ March 2022Recueils — ParticipationsTelegram (Publications et Pratique)Many thanks to
2 Modes Of Existence
There are two modalities to actually experience an event,This statement can be broadened to two manners of going through life.Each modality comes in a wide
Notes & Silence 