Zazen is life in me,The living,Access to the well of divine mercy,The straight, direct path,At the heart of our nature, The great return,The greatest grace,The
Étiquette : sitting
“Read”
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Kneading With Your Feet
By kinhin, meditative walk in Zen, you knead the dough of awakening.By zazen, sitting meditation, you cook it Outside the cushion, you offer bread to
Ropes and Rituals
When you make all the practice-maintaining ropes (i.e., ritual) disappear,The practice disappears: it loses its forms and tends to become shapeless, until there is nothing
I do not do zazen
I do not do zazen,I sitWhen I am ready to hear, then, I write the words displayed in my mind,Words are my harvest,What I bring
A (Daily) Matter Of Emergency
If you think you have « much better to do » than sitting in silenceIt is a reliable indicator that it is high time to silently sit.
La Porte De Mushotoku
Une erreur commune consiste à considérer zazen comme une technique.Cela relève de l’utilitarisme : “je fais zazen pour …” et en cela ne diffère pas
Threshold of Consciousness
It is sometimes the escalation in the nuisance relating to an initially minor disturbance which allows to become aware of this latter.It then appears that
Raw
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
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
