I make less and less difference between meditation and prayer. Meditation, for many, is a way of claiming to be a more « spiritual » practice than

I make less and less difference between meditation and prayer. Meditation, for many, is a way of claiming to be a more « spiritual » practice than
Wisdom is the upside down portrait of Dorian Gray,With the graying of the hair, the withering of the skin,The sifting of the heart and soul.
I feel such gratitude to…I don’t know. Zazen in my life is such an injection of beauty, breadth, perspective, clarity, an energetic embrace, an ocean
This is a translation from an audio note in French : here Realize that religions are an artificial reading grid that we have just added
I meditate because the world is a whirlpool machineAnd silent sitting then, is a remedy for shimmering, swirling death,A death which puts on the ten
In the end, on the other side of event management strategies,Through ideologies and cognitive contortions of our attempts at integrating emotional content,Though emergency re-framing operations
Music robs the beauty of calmness.On deep water, nothing is built.There, light sinks in and leaves fallAnd plants slowly decompose.All of this is raining inside.
(Quick note on my way to Sakamoto area, Otsu, Shiga, while reading the first pages of Zen Ritual, by Steven Heine…) If I write « this
I wonder if what we call ‘tinnitus’ is not the lower limit, the floor of the consciousness level that I had not yet encountered on
You have to be a hothead to take spirituality by the horns of Zen.This animal of spirituality is the only companion for the desperate, the
Meditation sets air circulation in motion through the corridors of consciousness.Sometimes a colossal breath surges without warning from the other end of the corridor, corridors,
Zazen : cosmic coordinates to meet one’s body in truth,As it is, ahead of what we think it is or would like it to be.In Zazen,
Energy stagnations bead in character traits, in personalities. They manifest a psychological setting. Also, energy stagnations are a phenomenon of resonance.For the one in whom
On the list of feelings with the power to summon the ego, to crystallize the identity,we should add one that is often omitted: I don’t
The observation of the mind teaches that our mode of evolution within existence is eminently dual. It is done via of one or other of