The zazen posture is the archetype.Every posture in our lives can embody this archetypal posture.In each of our postures, zazen can express itself. Listen, engage.
Étiquette : prayer
Return to Simplicity
My friend,Don’t spend too much time in dojos.Don’t be captivated by the terminology and the monks’ robes. For then you would miss the eternal freshness
Outside of Time
Consciousness that is outside of timeHe who looks at the wrinkled hand of todayis the same as he who looked at the hand of yesteryear.
Gone Gone Zen
When everything has been subtracted from the practice of zazen,there remains the task of removing zazen from zazen,so that simple sitting is empty of simple
Mental Body 2
An emotion can also be at the root of the inflammatory phenomenon of the mental body. Fear has a powerful potential to invade the mind.
Mental Body 1
The mental body (body of thoughts) is sometimes the victim of an overload of activity.It can then overflow, being awkwardly released onto the physical body.
The Breath of Silence
Spirituality is composed of layers.Sometimes clearly superimposed,other times, they interpenetrate. The layers are populated by a thousand characters, filled with stories and references.The layers tend
The Fountain Body
Posture, walking, sitting, are moments of profound reunion.Twisted, even ill, the body expresses the embrace of the worlds,both a gushing impulse and a welcoming receptacle,
Bits of Flesh?
If I place the back of my hand in the earth and cover it until only the two longest fingers protrude, I can very well
Follow the Frog
Nature stands thereAll of its flora and faunaWithout mental prismNature awaits us The frog jumps into the pond, follow it ©FJ Jan 2026Recueils / Participation/
The Tree That Hides the Forest 1/2
It is always surprising to observe how a purely mental event, a few thoughts summoned for fun, out of boredom, out of habit,can, a few
Truly Zazen
Gassho* at the end of zazenTruly stepping out of the posture is embodying the sitting practiceAnd not stepping out of it after zazen,zazen. *Gassho:joining hands
4 Incomprehensible Vows
The contradiction inherent in each of the four vows of the Bodhisattva * is in itself an invitation to go beyond.It is the teaching of
The Genesis of Creativity
Creative is the opposite of productive,Creative is the child of idle.Idleness is necessary; it allows for the development of « observing » which is a particular type
Balancing the Equation
The realization of inner spirituality and the phenomena populating the external narrative are only seemingly contradictory. They are not mutually exclusive. These two terms must
