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Truth Without Words
-When is Zen born? – Zen is born when you stop searching for words about truth and start searching for the truth without words. ©FJ
With People
Naively, I truly believed that simply being with people was enough to stop being alone.Every day, hundreds of people around me.Still alone. ©FJ_Fev 2026Books /
A Sharp Push on the Divers’ Backs
This morning, I considered that when Dogen pronounced the injunction to « leave the body-mind, » « shinjin datsuraku, » he meant precisely that. There are certainly multiple possible
On the Other Side of the Self
Belief in a self is the obstacle to compassion, emptiness,selflessness and allows compassion, emptiness begets compassion,compassion allows the realization of emptiness, Shiki soku ze kuku
« You’re a big boy now… »
You’re bigger, broader, freer than that, « leave this body-mind. »Like a father who raises his voice a little to his young child, who doesn’t dare go
Lonely Potato
It is fair to argue that meditating alone is to risk being trapped within one’s own projections, without ever experiencing the favor of a fragment
Ripples From Beyond
I was searching for a path of simplicity, devoid of the clutter of concepts,I was searching for a path not drowned in words, A path
Happy Arrangement
It is intellectual effort that gives rise to the solution in thoughts.It emerges owing to a happy arrangement from the depths. The energy of the
But what are you doing?
Realising the barrenness of identification with mind activity is truly the first step on any spiritual path. Many people teach,don robes and finery,have temples and
Through And Beyond
Spirituality is about sitting through.By way of sitting through, we end up sitting beyond.By way of sitting beyond, we end up just sitting. ©FJ Sept.
The Free Song of Sitting
We were talking then about the distant soul, the lost soul,and you also questioned the existence of the soul itself. Today I tell you that
Compass Posture
The body-mind is a compass.The practice consists of observing the magnet of thoughts.As soon as it moves away, the needle returns to its original direction.As
Between the Bowl and the Mallet
The point of contact between the bowl and the mallet is the point of existence,The encounter between the eye and the light of the object,Between
Shin Jin Datsu Raku (again)
« Leave the body-mind » Dogen’s body-mind, the one that must be « left » according to the famous injunction given to monks in zazen, can also refer to
Notes & Silence 