Through my mouth or through my pen, is the ever-new essence flowing ? Or are all these words nothing but an automatic repetition of non-integrated
Étiquette : practice
Dive Under the Names
Once I have seen,That my true nature is divineAll this tagging and naming frenzyHas stopped being an issue Rest in beauty, in the deepest selfWhere
Universal Intimacy
Meditation : Nothing is more intimate, how can we share it ? Nothing is more universal, how can we know it ? Franck Joseph Text
Truth : Keep Digging
Your spiritual practice is the truthAnd so is everyone’s… …And yes, all religions claim to hold the truth. And they’re all right, on different levels
Investigate the Night (quote)
« Investigating ahead of tagging and naming allows us to experience things before they become things » Franck Joseph ©FJ May 2020 – All rights reserved. Articles
The Big Shift
Sophie knew it. She had prepared the path for what she was about to experience that day.All these imbroglios straight out of Zen stories, all
Pied-de-Nez (quote)
Faire Kinhin*, c’est mettre son nez dans ses pieds et respirer *Kinhin est la pratique de la marche en conscience dans le Zen Soto :
Undercurrent (quote)
The one who knows Knows no matter what we do, No matter what we think. Franck Joseph ©FJ December 2019 All rights reserved. Les articles
And Zen itself can Disappear … (quote)
« I believe the real teaching of Zen, its core material, is to remind us there is no spirituality separated from what is — literally –at
The Safe and the Manual
We could consider religions as technical users’ guides to explain algorithms and mechanism of a safe protecting the truth. They claim their thoroughness and exhaustiveness.
Let God Through
The concept of God is paradoxically the most opaque of all filters. It sneaks somewhere between the eye of the observer and the inner lens,
The Luck Card of Zazen
The practice of just sitting is the luck card on which you’ ll find the following message : « Move to the final square. You’ve won. »
Bravery of the Spiritual Path
Because God can never be an outside in application but is always an inside out revelation, I’m not convinced that theological and pseudo-theological concepts are
Sailing Away on a Zen Boat
Why would I ever dock in Beliefs Islands ? Zazen is my sailing boat The celestial body is spherical If I love sailing so much
The Clouds of Intentions
It is dizzying to become aware of the share of our actions, speech and thoughts, that is determined by the intentions we ascribe to others.
Notes & Silence 