God hears our praise: this means that, through praise, the heart of the practitioner harmonises with the divine, with the real, with the Logos,And the
Étiquette : prayer
Ropes and Rituals
When you make all the practice-maintaining ropes (i.e., ritual) disappear,The practice disappears: it loses its forms and tends to become shapeless, until there is nothing
Towards the Center and Back
People do what they do to get what they want.What people want, what they run after, I do not desire.However, I am forced to do
Remembering God
The practice of remembering God, which is found in Sufism (Dhikr) but also in other forms in the Orthodox Christian tradition (Kyrie Eleison / « Russian
Coming Back To The Sitting Stable
Even if the world seems to persist in doing everything to keep forgetting, the body knows the sitting posture…and as soon as it stops being led
The Living Rituals
In Zen, rituals are everywhereAs soon as attention falls onthe object I am holding,the step of my walk,the words of my speech,the living rituals unfold.
What I (don’t) talk about
In the end, this has nothing to do with meand I cannot explain why or how silent sittingcracks open the heart of being,pierces the shell
No Donut
I don’t do sunbathes,don’t consume anythingdon’t have a cooler,or a towel. I do not participate in ball games,nor do I enjoy sandcastles, I pass through
Outstretched Hand
If, of all outstretched hands, I grasped that of the sitting practice, it is because it brings me, by its great silence, the space to
Unique Piece
Surprisingly, to make a Western mind understand what is meant by Dharma, in the sense of ‘cosmic order’, ‘infinite reality’, it is relevant to go
Zen and God
I sometimes wonder if not naming God, not talking about God in a practice, is not the best way to allow Him to exist within
To the Breathless Soul
It is good, in spiritual practice to have moments of conceptual purge.To empty oneself of all the cerebral clusters,To pierce the pockets of agglomerated words.To
Chasing the Shadow on the Wall
It is always astonishing to observe the ability of the mind to emulate the non-mind.Why does it act this way ?By survival reflex, because it
Healthy Distances
Man does not need a cardboard spirituality.Man needs a living spirituality.I once found it in Zen, and kept healthy distances from all formalism in practice
Aiming ‘Out to Sea’
I sometimes think that what Zen calls “Dharma” in the sense of the reality of existence,jumps beyond and straddles the intermediate stages of divine representations,
Notes & Silence 