I kneel to thank God, The Universe, Reality, Life, I sit to thank The PracticeFor going so light on me. Broken, cracked from end to
Étiquette : reality
I believed the Night
I once believed the Night was darkUntil she lifted the curtainAnd showed her ways to let light pierceThrough its bleak filters and black frames I
Live Forever
Zazen : seeing DeathComing forth as inner eyes adjust. Zazen : agreeing to stay putAnd sit one-on-one with Life Singing in tune, at last,With what
This is Real, This is Unreal
Our soul, angels, hungry ghosts, parallel worldsThey are all real. They’re all illusory. Paradise, hell, pure earths, …Everything is true. Until the ultimate truth unveils
The Eternal Soul and the Buddha
The Buddha does not eclipse nor does he deny the questions on the existence of a soul.Through his silent answers, he reveals the scope of
The Man Talking
I can hear the manPerched on a platformBehind the reading standUnderneath the collarScanned by dozens of eyeballsFrozen in the expectationOf a lightbeam, of a stumble,I
The Heart of Disaster
This is why disease or tragedy, when they appear in someone’s life can — in a paradoxical and counterintuitive manner — turn out to be
the Heart-Ocean
Identity is frothThose bubbles hypnotizeThe eyes of our being. They sparkle, fizzle,Agglutinate and burst. Wide, tranquil, emergency-freeThe heart-ocean does not change a thingTo its peaceful
Plastic Box (quote)
Everything is fake inside the plastic box : people, stories, laughters and faces… …But the thousands of days in your life that you spent in
The Reality of Things (note)
To rephrase Harada, in The Essence of Zen, it is the perception of things which creates things.This does not mean they had no existence prior
Investigate the Night (quote)
« Investigating ahead of tagging and naming allows us to experience things before they become things » Franck Joseph ©FJ May 2020 – All rights reserved. Articles
The Clouds of Intentions
It is dizzying to become aware of the share of our actions, speech and thoughts, that is determined by the intentions we ascribe to others.
Time to Sit (quote)
« It’s time to sit. Simply sit and read your soul. No fear. No trick. » Franck Joseph ©FJ April 2020 – All rights reserved. Books
Here I Am
There will come a time when we will have to acknowledge all this spiritual circus, to which we were initially attracted, moved by the gusts
Where Souls are Drowned and Bodies Seen as Real …
The Buddha’s Pure Earths, the underworlds, Paradise and all transitional places can be visited while sitting on the cushion. They correspond to the different ‘climates’
Notes & Silence 