If attention is not in place, if consciousness is abandoned, Then even if the heart of God surrendered to you, You would knit a net
Étiquette : prayer
You and Religions…
So religions seem narrow to you? Have you considered the possibility that it is in reality your understanding of religions, the way you make them
Grace Alone: God’s Space
There is a nice parallel between one of the founding postulates of Protestantism, according to which the grace of God alone saves the soul of
When Everything Shuts Down
All these posts can as well stop right hereI will write, as far as eyes can see, sutras, mantras, passages from holy texts, prayers,That would
Her Whom I Embrace With My Eyes
The practice of simple sitting is a joyful practice.It teaches the courage to go beyond the crust of concepts.Experience requires going through this crustIt is
Zen on the lips
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
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
Notes & Silence 