‘Home Staging’ : This is a typical example of what happens when common sense is suddenly made hostage by an American-sounding label and is squeezed in
Étiquette : silence
The United States of Noise (re-post)
This is an old post dating back from 2018 Though it feels like I wrote it more than a decade ago I now find it
African Glows
On my skin,The glimmer of a candle flameBrings up Savannah.The colors of scrub landSoftly abandonedBy a setting sun. The light changesThe fine lines of timeInto
Dans L’Antre-Dieu (Quote)
Flotter ainsi dans l’antre-DieuEt jeter l’encre pour toujours. Franck Joseph ©FJ April 2021- All Rights Reserved Les articles et méditations sont disponibles en version papier ici
Le Cheval de Conscience
Il me suffit de faire confiance au cheval de conscience.Lorsqu’il s’affole et que mes pérégrinations le perdent, Il est inutile de le brider à gauche,
Misfit : la Douceur Aiguë en Boussole
Ne sous-estime pas le sentiment d’inutilité Qui te traverse et t’afflige en ce monde.Tes silences en questions,Tes errances, en sillons,Parlent aux autres mondesEt les veines
Left Un-Named
More than anything elseHe didn’t want to have anything to name. For he knew that, as he would pin a tag to this new phenomenon,He
Analog Development
When I take the emo-graphic platesout of the chest vessel,What do they reveal ?(The chemical bath is complex and the eyes, uneducated.) The flowers and the
Digestion (In Progress)
Once they have soaked long enough in Zazen PoolEven the largest chunks, though difficult to digest,End up dissolving.They later reach the flow of nutrients,Travel around
Enseignement et Filtration
An English version is available here : Teaching and Filtration Ce n’est pas rien, l’enseignement. Et quand il s’agit de différencier la voie authentique de
Winter Gusts
There are times in a life,Crossroads in the nights,When the energies passing throughCan be upsettingly violent. The practice of Zazen, sitting meditation, Creates conditions for
Naked Buddha (2/2)
Part 1 is available here : Naked Buddha (1/2) Watch the mindNow, watch the one you are. This is your teaching,Your path, your reality. Everything
Words : A Footbridge To Nowhere
Here is a strange belief, both highly common and yet quite surprising :The belief according to which words would withhold elements of truth. We would therefore
The Science of Shutting Up
Hard sciences can sometimes be very similar to human relations :It is not because nothing is recorded that nothing is actually happening.The absence of appropriate devices
See-Through Paint
All along these pages of practice,I could say that successive layers of paint appear…The yellowish ego starts showing through.Could it all be painted with the
Notes & Silence 