True ordination does not take place from the outside.The outside cannot make a bodhisattva, a monk.Ordination is a birth from within.It is the agreement and
Étiquette : Space
Ritual Words
Dharanis, The Kesa Sutra, The triple gem, Bodhisattva vows, Their purpose is, above all, to channel, to allow you to receive, the impetus that springs
Ancestral Voice
When the voice resonates fairly, it passes through the hole in the wooden floor and anchors in the vibratory depths of ancestral frequencies. Nothing to
The Wheel and The Hub
Sitting creates perspective,It allows air to penetrate inside the suction cup of our representations.It lets us inhabit and sit us at the bottom of the
The Way That Suits You (or not)
The trap relating to the conceptual expedients of dualistic exogenous approaches has nothing to be ashamed of in comparison to the heaviness and infantilization of
Talk about God ?
So you want to talk about God.But what god do you want to talk to me about? All these words sketch a god that I
The Dome Of Religions
Religion is a mental dome where artificial diodes sparkle.Visual noise making the night sky inaccessible. No one but you spins the wheel of ignorance,as one
Incompleteness
In Zazen, all my incompleteness passes, without hurting meThe once lamentable, leaves an evanescent trace,In a boundless landscape, They can wane and vanish, The instant
Refuge In Non-Refuge
The conceptual scaffolding of religions/philosophies,Are constructions, more or less skillful, subtle and cumbersome,Behind which we take refuge.Should we then take refuge in non-refuge ? ©FJ
My Body In Reality
Buddhism was this brilliant, spacious teaching,Zen, lively and breathing, creates my body in reality. And the Buddha is not the Buddha,That’s why I call him
Saying God Without Words
What is Zazen ?Zazen is the last bastion of honesty in my life.Even if I ignore it,If I lose myself in the voluntary infatuation of
Your Only Child (note)
In Chapter 8 of the Lankavatara Sutra, in which Mahamati asks the Buddha what is the best way to make people understand the need not
The Wheel Disappears
The Buddha speaks to my consciousness about something it knows.Christ speaks to my heart about something it knows. Today, listening to the heart of Jesus,
Here’s A Challenge
It is such a grace to have people willing to walk over us, despise us one way or another, so as to assert themselves as
Horse Whispering As A Practice
Each name placed on an inner impression is sitting on the back of an emotional horse whose nature is much more eloquent than the name
Notes & Silence 