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I have been watching you for a long time, nowthere is no place left where you can hide.You sit and talk and play the BuddhaBut
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You say : They’re ruining my life. They prevent me from living. How could they ‘ruin your life” when they are made with the very
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When you are sleepingOr even beyond death,Ask yourself the question… Or do it in a much more accessible, Daily and daytime manner,During times of sickness
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(Re-post) Each of these articles is a stitch on my kesa.On every sentence I have landed my attention.Sometimes stable, sometimes restless,Always trying to touch upon
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What we call ‘spirituality’Is often the art of plasteringwith full silos of slimy glueSomething swift and simplePeople keep jumping from one silo to the next…Salutary
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crossed zen,pushed along through zentwisted and turned.sat zazen in the desertwhere was I ? where have I been ?don’t know.doesn’t matter anymore FJ-May 21
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Zen destroys everything.Even there, you’re comingAnd you destroy everything. Zen accepts everything.Even there, you reject everything,And end up rejected. What are you ?A stray dog
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Dojo-goers who set up for the posture must pay special attention not to settle in the posture. This latter is often elevated to a dogma
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It has now become impossible to deny :There is an attachment to this sitting posture that is both subtle and coarse. Subtle, because it is
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He is not talking about objective facts, the violence of what has really been said…But about the thunderous resonance these words had in his inner
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I sometimes feel God is brooding on thoughtsIn our inner language, God is taking shapeThrough words, God may hatch out.Way ahead of all this maturation
Notes & Silence 