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
Étiquette : sitting
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
Fair Sitting
-How do I know if my sitting was fair ? -It’s simple: if you haven’t found the heart of your existence, you might have been
About Discipline : Raw Sitting
Here is a short note inspired by C., a Zazen friend. What place should be given to rigor, discipline, stick-to-it-iveness? I am not known to
Unbearable Sitting
The one who can observe this point of un-bearability in sitting meditation,the breaking point of total boredom, the moment when exasperation is on the verge
Electric Corner
Sitting for an hour,A playful corner of my skullsucks me in,jingles and puns,In the softness of amazementThat same old stupid me ©ndraw@protonmail.com – Jan 2023–Recueils–Participations-Pratique
Wake-up Sitting
Do you know how to assess,Your thought quality index? In the morning,Is it really worth lying down some more ?Can you hearThe softened chaos ?
