When Dogen says that the Dharma is “obtained neither by thought nor by the absence of thought,” this means that one must not “not think.”
Étiquette : spirituality
Elusive
Through the Bible, the believer seeks to encounter God,But God is elusive. This is not a property of God; it is His very nature. God
Dissolving The Floor
When the floor of the mind seems to have solidified so much that no breakthrough can take place,Is it through breathing that we manage to
Devotion
It does not surprise me that in the great plains of consciousness, the appeal to this or that figure has real virtues of anchoring, of
Invoking the angel, bowing before the cushion
Invoking the angel, a devotion to a particular saint, Ultimately, these are inner practices, just as when a zazen practitioner comes to bow before a
Religion of Noise
You have made a religion of noise.You have made noise a religion.Your relationship with noise and the environments that generate it is religious. The noise
Jumping Off A Cliff
Each ontological incompleteness of language is in itself an invitation to silent sitting,A hand that invites to stretch a dotted line lost into half a
The Divine at the end of the session
The gratitude I feel toward the divine at the end of the sitting session illuminates the artificiality of all the categories with which the human
The Jewel
Direct presence is a jewel.This jewel is penetrated by the light of the teachings of authentic wisdom. How can one come to lose such a
Tell me how you believe
Tell me how you believe and I’ll tell you who you are.Tell me the architecture of your beliefs, their nature, and the configuration you give
Seed of the Saint
To use Buddhist vocabulary, each time we re-center before a medal or image of a particular saint, we water the corresponding seed or the most
Call Of The Sea And Dabbling
There is a strong contradiction in spirituality.We are confronted with it, as soon as we remember, (or the memory of… invites itself into us) the
God of the Curtain
In zazen I will finally see what is happening beyond the curtain of the mind. To prevent people from investigating the realm beyond the mind,
Soul Call On Hold
Human consciousness is called to this infinity.All stagnation keeping it distant from this infinity groans, and a dull sadness results from its withering.Setting it in
Sculpting the World
For those whose inner channels are open, instances of collective manifestation are ultimately only a response to particularly powerful inner manifestations, whether individual or collective.
Notes & Silence 