The mandarin is truth, and the peel, illusion.Illusion is part of realityHow can we access the truth of the pulp without removing the peel ?
Étiquette : reality
Endgame
In the Hindu tradition, the world is « lila, » game, illusion.Sitting zazen, I stop playing. ©FJ_March 2026Books / Participation/ Groupes
« Too intense, I don’t have the words… »
In some cases, claiming the inability of words to express what we feel amounts to absolving ourselves of any responsibility for our failure to try
The First Gate
It is because in zazen we are supposed to have already traversed everything that the practitioner can be given the illusion of having indeed traversed
The Master Inside The Book
Listening to the Master,May you encounter the words of the one who will be able to pivot the cognitive-emotional tool, invite himself into the illusory
Anatta
AnattaNon-selfis a directionindicated by the awakened one. Anatta,he places his hand on the top of your headand turns your head in the direction you must
When you talk about yourself
What I observe externally is what I am able to observe.What I am able to observe corresponds to what I am internally.What does not correspond
A Good Slap
Zazen is still a good slapTo the Sir or Madam,That we call ourselvesAnd think we are, Every day…A good slapWhat happens to those who don’t
Actualize God
You do not understand God if you are not in the actualization of God.The now-ness of God : Your heart: it is what underlies life
How Reality Hatches Out
He who has not seen that it is information that creates reality, not reality that creates information, understands nothing at all. Information => shaping of
Non-Obstructing
The prayer Christ teaches has much to do with non-doing.It’s about relying on the greatness of God, not hindering God’s work with our gestures.From this
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
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
Yet Another Set Of Techniques….
A particularly common confusion, found all along the axis of the number of years of meditation practice, consists of considering techniques as ends, while losing
The Voice of God
The permanent unfolding of Reality,the very matter of the world unfolding,around and within us,This is God, To hear the world,to hold this fabric in our
Notes & Silence 