Wherever I fall asleep,I put myself back in the arms of a Presencethat wants what is good for me, loves and protects me, This is
Wherever I fall asleep,I put myself back in the arms of a Presencethat wants what is good for me, loves and protects me, This is
I see that waking up is actually a process occurring in stages. I open my inner eyes and leave my eyelids closedAnd upstream of these
Every evening, or at least, very often, at bedtime, as I lie down on the ground,I am overwhelmed by an inexplicable wave of happiness. The
And even though I enjoy those baths of emptiness and have delight through the practice of negating everything,And when I wave the flags of vanity
When the Quran repeats that God “hears and sees all,” it is not trying to hammer home a divine obsession with control and guilt.On the
Lying on the floor is often the occasion for a happiness that cannot be contained, a great peace that emerges in a familiar smile, Thus
The secret for a good night’s sleep,is to feel peace towards / and be at peace with every person you encounter in your mind. Hence
Sleeping on the floor and receiving the deepest of all massages:A whole night session At nights, receiving the massage of a lifetime.The body-ground contact points
We fall in Zazen,The same way we fall asleepOne stage after the other,We fall through the floors of consciousness,One after the other, they dissolve.Withdrawing towards
Praying yourself to sleep,Sinking into the night,Pushed by one day’s shortcomings,And drawn by the next morning in the hope of right action. ©FJ April 2022Recueils
As one folds one’s clothes before placing them in the chest of drawers,You should arrange your mind correctly before falling asleep, so that when you
Letting yourself get carried away by sleepSurrendering yourself over to the sleeping currentThere is nothing surprising in the difficulties encounteredBy the one we have so
Tonight, as I switch between the comfort of a Kyoto hotel room which offers me a comfortable double bed,and the accusation of incongruity that arises
There is a form of violence that I apply to myself.It occurs at night, when I struggle with what appears as a wake-up phase I
The breathing pump is deepening its movementsLower, lowerI can hear the dim questions rising from withinI can see the mind slightly starting to driftAway, at