Sit down, experience life directly, without concept. Each concept is a vortex that takes you into a spiral arm.Once caught by the mental vortex, you
Étiquette : sitting
Inexplicable Sitting
Not only does this seem incomprehensible, but it totally is : the solution to the problem of your existence is not in the thoughts that
Zazen: Giving Birth
It is said that some people, through their repeated destructive activities, dig their own graves.They accelerate towards death, through addictive behavior, angry behavior, excesses of
The Joy Ingredient
The key ingredient in the dish of spirituality is joy.Whatever the path, if the heart is not joyful, it is not a path of spiritualityA
Compostable Sitting
There is no difference between between the practice of simple sitting and emptying the compost bag into the compost bin.In the kitchen, the peelings start
Sitting Before Dawn
Practicing before dawn,Writing at the edge of the nightAre allegories of awakening. Travel the few meters that separate the bed and the cushion,when the house
Joyful Sitting
Before everything that we can say or write about it, the practice of silent sitting – zazen – is something very simple: a direct joy
Touching the Earth
When the Buddha places his hand on the earth, from his sitting posture, he points to the immediacy, the direct simplicity of nature, He experiences
Virgin Listening
This evening, questions in my mind are keeping me awake : Almost physically, I feel the conceptual activity clearly active in the top region of
Give Thanks
The Sitting practice trims and trimsCuts and clearsAnd finally leads to the heart of spirituality. There, we can all live with the same spirit.There, their
Zen on the lips
Zen, Zen, Zen… It does not matter the least !For Zen does not exist, Zen exists nowhere else but in yourself, right here, right now,What
You’re not walking the Path
Sitting never ceases to reveal this: the calm behind the curtain on which your mind makes the conceptual decorum of religions’ dances, Silent sitting is
Have You Seen It All Yet ?
To practice Zen, You have to have seen it all To have seen it all You need to practice Silent Sitting ©FJ Oct 2023Recueils /
I read, I write
I sit,I read, I write, This is my practice To this day, these two elements are still to be brought to extinction. “I read, I
A Genuine Good For Nothing
I do not sit because I’ve stopped being the good for nothing that I was: in reality, I never find anything else to do than
Notes & Silence 