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Étiquette : prayer
Sitting : A Pillar of Faith
The true sitting is one of warmth,It stands in the heart of the hearth where all doubts evaporate.The true sitting is a position of trust,
When the Circumference Speaks to the Center
One of the main causes of confusion and wasted time in spiritual/religious matters comes from the belief that because people use the same words, they
God is to the soul…
God is to the soul what water is to fish,what the sky is to birds.We have forgotten this immediacy, this natural evidence, and the soul
Night Swim
I realize that if I didn’t find God, it was because I was looking for Him where he wasn’t to be found. I sought him
Erasing Work
These words appear as they are, planted as such in my mind.When I try to appear through them, the text becomes stained and insipid. It’s
Bottlenecks on the Spiritual Chain
The spiritual obstacle for the meditation practitionner may consist of seeking outside validation for what he finds within.The obstacle for the religious person may consist
Universal Christ
The dialectic of time and history proposed by Christianity is not necessarily incompatible with the broader dialectic of Mahayana Buddhism. It can be perfectly integrated
Interdependence
Two remarks on what the reality of the conditioned co-production of phenomena in Buddhism directly implies: the interdependence of everything and the absence of self.
‘As We Forgive’
« Forgive us… as we forgive… » There is indeed a double movement necessary for the effectiveness of this statement: -You cannot truly forgive if you are
Favorite Room
My favorite room in the world,The only one I truly want to be in, measures less than four square meters and doesn’t contain a single
The Nature of Nature
If the materials from your religion are part of what blocks the path to Being, this is an indicator of the distortion of these materials,
Literally
It is true that in spirituality, literalism is particularly annoying, both for its tedious idiocy (limiting the scope of spiritual expression) and for the tiring
Perpetual Present Intimacy
Among the worst things traditions, whether intentionally or through lazy erosion have done to spirituality, is the disconnection from the teachings of the now. The
Source of Eternal Life
One of the greatest ironies is to realize that the Zen tradition is stifled under a thousand layers of constructions around Zen. These constructions have
Notes & Silence 