Hesitation is the expression of a stagnation energy.Choice is the awareness of a re-setting of these energies,Of dissolution and vaporization, of elements aggregated into sticky
Étiquette : prayer
Mind: Magnetic Experience (2)
The hell-mind is a magnetic experience.This powerful magnet is sometimes so difficult to resist.Its strength is then such that one reaches the infernal magnetic heart
Beyond the Threshold
After the threshold of the pathless pathPosture is no longer posture,Zazen is no longer zazen,The boat remains in the water. ©FJ June 2025Recueils / Participation/
No One to Convince
What I call « Great Freedom »,religions may as well call it « egotistical approach, » From here, I have no one to betray,nor anyone to convince. ©FJ June
Of Water And Air
A bottle of water filled to the last drop: full of water, filled to the brim, and empty of the air it contained when it
Call, Listen, Answer
From inside, prayer is an orientation, a reorientation, a sitting within orientation.Prayer is the call to prayer, the listening to this call and the answer
Crossing the Threshold
A sincere practice of Zen must necessarily lead to a threshold, beyond which it is impossible to continue the journey thus laden with conceptual tools,
Ancestral Practice
Silent sitting is necessarily the ancestral practice,The primordial tradition,The silence upstream of all practice, of all tradition,This is zazen. Everything we add to it speaks
Withdrawn
I have withdrawn,from so long times spent in the emulsions of the foam,on the surface of the wet sand, Today, I have withdrawn,I have lost
Constant Teaching On Unity
I remember hearing the story of a great Sufi master who had gathered several of his disciples to teach them about Divine unity (Tawhid)… When
Exhale (E), Inhale (I)
I: I breathe in the new,E: I breathe out the old,I: I come to nourish,E: What was waiting and no longer circulatedI: I come to
Baptism, Ablutions
The words had stopped flowing, blocked upstream by the scree of concepts. No one but me had placed them there. The river has always flowed
Zazen vs. The Turtle
I can only stick to the simplest practices in the world—zazen. Bowl, incense, candleszazen bowl, candle,zazen, incense,zazen, being. Any other recommended practice, however recommendable, leaves
Ignorance
-What is ignorance? -Believing that one dwells in the sphere of thoughts, plus the consequences of this belief (identifications, perception of reality, through the prism
Ritual Freedom and the In-Draft 2/2
…Certain traditions do not allow the freedom not to… thus, the understanding expressed by the freedom to… simply does not occur. Such restrictive frameworks are
Notes & Silence 