Hypersensitivity: wearing a studded shirt, the same one everyone wears.Not understanding why no one seems to suffer from the hundreds of studs on their skin.
Étiquette : prayer
Hannya Shingyo: The Sound of Silence
When reciting the Hannya Shingyo, I don’t know what teaches more profoundly…Is it the sound of the sutra being recited, or the sound of the
Gassho
Gassho : bowing before zazen,as one enters the inner temple. ©FJ Dec 2025Recueils / Participation/ Groupes
True Joy
True joy, the joy of zazen, is not excitement.It is subtle serenity,constantly renewed contemplation,delicate rapture, a petal placed on a leaf along a stream. ©FJ
The Entrepreneurial Mind
The entrepreneurial mind, when too sharp, seeks to build and, in doing so, does not allow the emergence, existence, and disintegration of everything that emerges
Great Pool
Equanimity is ultimately the great pool in which nothing is as important as we think. The great pool,The great ocean,The vast mind,The one mind ©FJ
Endless Surrender
In kinhin*, with the front foot, I return to the earth, with the exhalation, I lead into the ground.With the back foot, I release, I
All Names
What I see anchored to the heart, Heart emerging from the Heart, why must I name it? Why not give it all names? God, Mercy,
Patient Breath
The breath knows the great outdoors; it is called to return to the vast.This is what listening closely to the breath teaches.Out of respect for
Do you hear the one within you?
Can you hear, within you, the one who is trying to get up, the one who is waiting, the release of the sound of the
The Habitats of the Mind
Zazen: quitting the habit,leaving habits, the habitats of the mind, the refuges of consciousness,and reaching the depths of depths, the space of spaces,The ample nature,
True Courage
True courage consists of leaving the grip of the kingdom of agitation,letting go of the addiction that holds us prisoner there. ©FJ August 2025Recueils /
Sitting : A Pillar of Faith
The true sitting is one of warmth,It stands in the heart of the hearth where all doubts evaporate.The true sitting is a position of trust,
When the Circumference Speaks to the Center
One of the main causes of confusion and wasted time in spiritual/religious matters comes from the belief that because people use the same words, they
God is to the soul…
God is to the soul what water is to fish,what the sky is to birds.We have forgotten this immediacy, this natural evidence, and the soul
Notes & Silence 