Zen, Zen, Zen… It does not matter the least !For Zen does not exist, Zen exists nowhere else but in yourself, right here, right now,What
Étiquette : prayer
You’re not walking the Path
Sitting never ceases to reveal this: the calm behind the curtain on which your mind makes the conceptual decorum of religions’ dances, Silent sitting is
Silence and the Unspeakable (2/2)
PART 1 We spend our lives Wanting, wanting not to, Identifying, distancing, Delighting, suffering Below these strata, Pass beyond the boundary of silence, Where silence
Silence and the Unspeakable (1/2)
Spiritual wishes stumble and come up against the rough edges of one person, the descriptions of another. Hesitations and procrastination – I have written extensively
Done listening
On the opposite side of silenceEverything is talking, constantly,All languages, all is talking ceaselessly,and I’m done listening. ©FJ Oct 2023Recueils / Participations
A Buddhist Dolorism ?
In Mayahana Buddhism, there is a doloristic reading of the teachings, which is strangely familiar to a certain approach of Catholicism.It can be found in
The Language of Silence
I waited a long time in silence.Silence does not speak Hebrew, Sanskrit, Japanese, Arabic or Latin.Silence does not speak.That’s one more reason to listen.
Compensatory Armada
Religion, spiritual practice, are conceptual cages from which one day we will have to escape.We are the young child lying in bed, a mobile that
Underground Solution
Be still and know that I am God (Psalms 46:10) Faith is also trusting the ongoing work underneath our ignorant wanderings,Believing in the solution that
A Praying Body
Praying is an experienceAbove all, essentially, a physical experience. Can we consider that physical existence is an occasion for a quintessence of the prayer experience
Have You Seen It All Yet ?
To practice Zen, You have to have seen it all To have seen it all You need to practice Silent Sitting ©FJ Oct 2023Recueils /
In The Space Of His Open Heart
In moments of narrowness, I always find the unthinkable space of the HeartTo welcome me Because the walls of concepts always end up being built
Beep Beep And Coyote
Concepts run, endlessly, to the point of exhaustion,And then they pass the baton to others. Concepts run behind God, the living, Always faster, Always elusive,
High-Low
The great high-low reversal This is also how we can understand the encounter with the Spirit. Franck – October 2023Recueils / Participations/ Pratique
Junk Food of the Spirit
Until you reach silence, religion, spirituality, are just gibberish: physical equipment from the Grand Bazaar where everything is worth anything else, where nothing is worth
Notes & Silence 