One of the pitfalls we must overcome along the path comes in the form of a desire to become, in one form or another, a
Étiquette : simplicity
Lay Down Buddhism
See: Buddhism, like any other body of knowledge, is so cumbersome in the practice of simple sitting,Leave it all thereand walk beyond with a lightened
Foundational Simplicity
Nudity consists above all in listening to the energy flows in and around one’s body – physical and mental flows. For many, whether beginners or
What Does Zen Do?
Zazen reduces the framework of practice to the bare minimum. This approach of radical simplification is what is necessary to become aware of what is
New Inner Grammar
There comes a time when what keeps us within the spheres of explaining a world by strictly rational, scientific, intellectual, academic means… What is limited
Theological Misdirection
As long as God is an idea, however sumptuous, you are always in the sterile and suffering-generating insularity of the mind bubble. Theology brews ideas
Nothing Necessary
To do zazen, to be penetrated by the teachings of zen, there is nothing else to do, nothing to do but to sit.There is nothing
A Few Lines
Dogen is right: a few lines on the sitting practice are enough.Postural snobbery is an opportunity to assert oneself in an endless manner.The only thing
Have you really lived ?
Whoever did not take this unique path,Who has not fallen into the common passage,He who has not started to pierce the veil of consciousness,The one
There Is Your Teacher
Silent sitting is teaching yourselfTo come back to thesimplicitybeautyoneness Of what is Silent sitting is teaching yourselfto come back to emptinesswaiting behind phenomena. ©FJ Nov
Psalm 85, 8 : God Speaks Peace
Let me hear what the Lord will speakFor He will speak peace to His people, to His saints,But let them not turn back to folly
Clothes On The Floor
As age advancesfinally i becomewhat i wasI’m no longerwhat i was notand don’t want to be someone anymore ©FJ June 2023Recueils / ParticipationsTelegram (Publications et
Ignore Royally
The devil, etymologically, is the one who divides, who dis-unites,the one who « gets in the way » of the road, In doing so, he splits the
Bodily Requests
Zazen : cosmic coordinates to meet one’s body in truth,As it is, ahead of what we think it is or would like it to be.In Zazen,
Your Big Fat Nose
Could it be that everything is given to us,There, always, just in frontOf our big fat and doubting nose? ©ndraw@protonmail.com – Dec 2022–Recueils–Participations-Pratique
Notes & Silence 