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
Étiquette : Space
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
Whether You Like It Or Not
I know Zen doesn’t talk about God.And I know that mindfulness has no official place in Christianity…But when I read 1 COR 10:31 (“So whether
Creative Idleness
By what you perceive as idleness, flitting,I work, in reality, for the completeness of my being. Idleness: I observe the abacus of life under unexpected
Emotional Hell
The Master has nothing against emotional content or the expression of such material.Still, he will try to point to the suffering arising whenever emotion becomes
Mind The Candle ?
My mind, a flickering candle light,My inner eyes, the endless tranquility of the night. ©FJ June 2022 —Groupe de PratiqueRecueils — Participations
Importance Matters
To the central adage of the practitioner according to which “thoughts have no existence”, I propose to substitute this one: “thoughts are not important”. It
The Economy of Innocence / Linguistics of Emptiness
Thomas Merton, in Zen and the Birds of Appetite :The notion of innocence (which he offers as a translation for « emptiness ») through economic terms :
Notes & Silence 