In light of what is experienced in the depths of sitting meditation, everything that is said,external and internal dialogues, is nothing but fragmentary, illusory, and
Étiquette : practice
Grasp the Rope Where It Is
We can gauge the harmfulness of a thought by its potential for confinement.How impermeable are its walls?To what extent does it hold us captive? This
Dividing Agents
Requesting people’s undivided attention is too high an expectation for our modern world, for this has become the scarcest currency around.Attention-dividing agents are so pervasive
At the Edge of The Sitting Practice
What the three strokes of the singing bowl at the beginning of silent sitting teach me, The way they baptize the moment, the way they
Lay Down Buddhism
See: Buddhism, like any other body of knowledge, is so cumbersome in the practice of simple sitting,Leave it all thereand walk beyond with a lightened
Ta Vie Tourne A Vide ?
Ta pratique,l’assise, le silence, est le temps que tu passes à fréquenter l’Être.Ta relation à l’Etre,Est la seule modalité de vie qui vaille.Dès lors que
J’envisage parfois…
J’envisage parfoisque tous ces textes,la majeure partie,La meilleure partie,ne sont pas de moi, Ils apparaissent en mon esprit,Lorsque mon corps est en posture et que
Welcoming, Letting Go
Zazen creates the space to welcome internal and external phenomena.Zazen creates the space to let them go. The narrow space creates the reaction to internal
Digging With a Pen
I dig my soul with the pen.Each letter, each word is a shovelful in the earth of consciousness,A few extra centimeters of furrow dug in
The Inner Prophet 1/2
The prophet is within us.The one who listens, the one who hears.In us, the prophet is that which listens, that which hears, that which receives
The Body-Mind Shackles
Zazen gives you the opportunityto feel the body-mind shackles from which you must free yourself. All other words are useless if you don’t see it,
Zen: Refuge in the Woods
The extreme dematerialization of Zen operates both externally (rituals…) and internally (concepts, representations…). It is what makes Zen a refuge, a point to which we
Final Rest
Zen masters, patriarchs of yesteryear, when they felt the hour of death approaching, would enter zazen and welcome in the posture the echo of their
How Reality Hatches Out
He who has not seen that it is information that creates reality, not reality that creates information, understands nothing at all. Information => shaping of
Thoughts Lose Their Hold
In zazen, as long as the hold of thoughts operates, speech is of no use.When thoughts lose their hold,In the universe that opens, speech is
Notes & Silence 