Posture is to Zen what landing coordinates are to a spaceship.Posture is to Zen what manifestation is to the principle.Posture is to Zen what phenomena
Étiquette : Space
It’s still a long way off, but it’s something.
If expanded consciousness brings inner peace, it’s because it corresponds to a moving closer, a coming together of the human mode of existence in the
Desire – Illusion
Desire is the matrix of illusion,Illusion is the matrix of desire. ©FJ Sept. 2025Recueils / Participation/
As One Speaks Above
This body-mind is the realm of restrictionsOutside this body-mind, encounter the all-possibleLeaving this body-mind is essential to bring the all-possible back into the realm of
Disciples of the Hold
Surprisingly, the framework of zazen can close in on the practitioner,and churn out mass cement limiting blocks.The infinite horizon of consciousness,Many turn the freest framework
Around The Worlds
« Leave this body-mind » means: leave the body-mindTo understand something else is to not know the port where we find ourselves,And ignore the departure and the
Apex Exit
Apex ExitClose, closer, pressed,You, our beings, one to the otherBy hands and eyes,Our knowledge of the very wide,Yours fluid and in mine,My miring in reminiscences
A Sharp Push on the Divers’ Backs
This morning, I considered that when Dogen pronounced the injunction to « leave the body-mind, » « shinjin datsuraku, » he meant precisely that. There are certainly multiple possible
‘Practice-Realisation’
Stopping to look for words about truth,Looking for truthFinding the truthAre not three steps. ©FJ Sept. 2025Recueils / Participation/
Trapping God
In Freedom only, God can be.Religions are traps for people who think that God can be trapped. ©FJ_Fev 2026Recueils / Participation/ Groupes
“God of Love and Emptiness”
I am struck by reading James Finley who calls Jesus the “God of Love and Emptiness”, and reveals with simplicity the link of continuity between
Cosmic Room
Religion can also be a corner of spirituality, a room in the cosmos where we feel at home.I have no problem with that understanding, as
Gassho
Gassho : bowing before zazen,as one enters the inner temple. ©FJDec 2025Books / Participation/ Groupes
The Entrepreneurial Mind
The entrepreneurial mind, when too sharp, seeks to build and, in doing so, does not allow the emergence, existence, and disintegration of everything that emerges
God is to the soul…
God is to the soul what water is to fish,what the sky is to birds.We have forgotten this immediacy, this natural evidence, and the soul
Notes & Silence 