The minaret is internal, and it is not I who sing the call to prayer.In the early morning, the wood strikes itself,Basée on inner tempo,my
Étiquette : prayer
Book of Consciousness
The only book is the book of consciousness,All other holy books, however sacred, are useless,if they are not read in the light of consciousness. At
Emptiness is not nothing
Emptiness is not nothing,on the contrary,it is everything.Emptiness is the absence of focus on anything,The impossibility of stopping to make a template out of anything,as
Unique Experience
I remember the famous passage from Dogen Zenji, « To study the Way of the Buddha is to study oneself,To study oneself is to forget oneself,
The Father’s Heaven
Consider the beginning of the prayer: “Our Father, who art in heaven..” …we have already recalled in other pages of these digital notebooks, the double
No Solution For Me
There are moments, entire days of our life, sometimes, when thoughts attack with such violence that it seems vain effort to try to extricate oneself
L’Elan de Grâce / Conscience Large
Nous pouvons faire l’expérience d’une étape intermédiaire entre attention concentrée (polarisation de l’attention) et attention diffuse (regard / écoute large).Elle se produit lorsque nous tentons
Well dressed yet so far
It is vital for the practitioner to pass, at one point, to look at prayer and the movements it expresses with an eye of non-duality.Thus,
Chime of Thoughts
I look at my thoughts and try to calm themAs I hold between my fingers the hanging bamboo sticks and the stone who collides themAnd
Everyday Suffering Exposed
I once wrote that life was a game, that I become sad as soon as I forget this statement.Of course, I didn’t « invent » this, nor
Chasing teachers ?
I see two ways of not chasing teachers, dojos, conferences: -on the one hand, not having any knowledge of the richness and potential for awakening
2020-2022
The context that I’m going through, that we’re all going through, actually,Taught me two things,so obvious to many,yet, unthinkable for me until recently: -We can’t
In my body, a lotus
I feel thought, literally, as a cognitive phenomenon, as a manifestation (in the sense of a transitory appearance)It momentarily crystallizes and densifies energy. It aggregates
Explaining
Two pitfalls that should be avoided : -Those who always want to explain everything-Those who believe we should never try to explain anything The former turn
Music listening and spiritual practice
Jazz, bebop: listening to higher tempi….from a slow listening point,Embracing wider…embracing from a wider perspective.Listening to the whole thing from a further, deeper place.No longer
