From inside, prayer is an orientation, a reorientation, a sitting within orientation.Prayer is the call to prayer, the listening to this call and the answer
Étiquette : prayer
Crossing the Threshold
A sincere practice of Zen must necessarily lead to a threshold, beyond which it is impossible to continue the journey thus laden with conceptual tools,
Ancestral Practice
Silent sitting is necessarily the ancestral practice,The primordial tradition,The silence upstream of all practice, of all tradition,This is zazen. Everything we add to it speaks
Withdrawn
I have withdrawn,from so long times spent in the emulsions of the foam,on the surface of the wet sand, Today, I have withdrawn,I have lost
Constant Teaching On Unity
I remember hearing the story of a great Sufi master who had gathered several of his disciples to teach them about Divine unity (Tawhid)… When
Exhale (E), Inhale (I)
I: I breathe in the new,E: I breathe out the old,I: I come to nourish,E: What was waiting and no longer circulatedI: I come to
Baptism, Ablutions
The words had stopped flowing, blocked upstream by the scree of concepts. No one but me had placed them there. The river has always flowed
Zazen vs. The Turtle
I can only stick to the simplest practices in the world—zazen. Bowl, incense, candleszazen bowl, candle,zazen, incense,zazen, being. Any other recommended practice, however recommendable, leaves
Ignorance
-What is ignorance? -Believing that one dwells in the sphere of thoughts, plus the consequences of this belief (identifications, perception of reality, through the prism
Ritual Freedom and the In-Draft 2/2
…Certain traditions do not allow the freedom not to… thus, the understanding expressed by the freedom to… simply does not occur. Such restrictive frameworks are
Involve This Body
So you regret that the body is not involved or insufficiently involved in your spiritual tradition ?What are you waiting for to involve more of
Postural Intake
This deep breathFull, cavernous,Column of breathPlanted in the wombThe posture opens the valveThe intake of air is posturalAnd nothing belongs to me.Powerful death rattle,Carries everything
Psalm 31- notes
« In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness.« : the inalienable nature of the
Light of Christ
By taking a somewhat courageous, non-dualistic view, Christ appears as that which, within us, pushes our being towards liberation, The light of our consciousness, that
One Reality, A Thousand Variations
Sat Chit AnandaConsciousness Being Beatitude, Everything is right hereOther teachings are a detourSat Chit Ananda,the unique path,A thousand variations ©FJ May 2025Recueils / Participation/
Notes & Silence 