Just as we carry the prophet within us, we alone are the community, the community of ears that receive within us all the voices that
Étiquette : prayer
The Inner Prophet 1/2
The prophet is within us.The one who listens, the one who hears.In us, the prophet is that which listens, that which hears, that which receives
The Body-Mind Shackles
Zazen gives you the opportunityto feel the body-mind shackles from which you must free yourself. All other words are useless if you don’t see it,
Zen: Refuge in the Woods
The extreme dematerialization of Zen operates both externally (rituals…) and internally (concepts, representations…). It is what makes Zen a refuge, a point to which we
Final Rest
Zen masters, patriarchs of yesteryear, when they felt the hour of death approaching, would enter zazen and welcome in the posture the echo of their
Thoughts Lose Their Hold
In zazen, as long as the hold of thoughts operates, speech is of no use.When thoughts lose their hold,In the universe that opens, speech is
A Music That Fades Away
There comes a time in zazen,when all the little music, rhythms, melodies, sound further and then fade away. If you look closely, some of the
The Dirtying Machine
The « thought » activity represents an effort.The laundry washing machine is powered by electric current, itself produced by coal or else.Observing the effort, the energy underlying
Practice: shut up and leave.
3 types of people in spiritual circles: Among disciples, the three most common profiles are found successively in the same person (or even synchronously): -Those
Nothing New
There is nothing I say that hasn’t already been said,I have no interest in that,Not a hair of a dog in the fight. I’m not
Secret Kesa
A tiny push is sometimes enough to set the most beautiful undertaking in motion.Without it, the project was wating at the top,Entangled in its beautiful,
Emptiness: Unnamed
When the breath passes through me, Undulations in the pipes,All dust carried away,Primordial line,Why put a name to it?If there is nothing to receive a
Emerging from Silence
This gratitude I feel upon emerging from the silence is not manufactured or induced by some religious machinery; it is the song of their absence.
John 1, 6-12
There was a man sent from God whose name was John.He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all
Two Lovers
Prayer and meditation are overlappings between the veils of the world. They allow one to pass through. Sometimes, for a fleeting moment, one glimpese the
Notes & Silence 