The different ‘stations’ of the spiritual journey are not necessarily traversed chronologically and linearly. They can be actualized synchronously, retroactively, belatedly, unevenly, or in advance,
Étiquette : spirituality
From Illusion To Illusion, Bubbles Of Religions
Institutional religious practice is reassuring in that it deploys before the practitioner a complete and ready-to-use ecosystem. This “ready-to-think” aspect through which the different elements
People of the Ultimate
The people of simple sitting,Are the people of the ultimate, A sense of the ultimate brings them all together beyond the limits of space or
Meta-Prayer: Open the door
The practice of zazen, sitting,Simple and quietIs the practice of prayer that contains them all.Zazen is the meta prayerNot being of any religion. However, there
No Other God
Saying » there is no other God but God »Is saying there is nothing like the directness of zazen.No purest access to the waynowhere else to
Primordial River
There is a pulsating pleasure of body and mind, upstream of sexuality and its erotic imagery,It is sexuality in that it originates from the pelvis,And
Awakening Is Silent
The truly awakened one has no need for questions about awakening,for he has let go of the need to claim awakening. To speak of one’s
Outside of Time
Consciousness that is outside of timeHe who looks at the wrinkled hand of todayis the same as he who looked at the hand of yesteryear.
Gone Gone Zen
When everything has been subtracted from the practice of zazen,there remains the task of removing zazen from zazen,so that simple sitting is empty of simple
Mental Body 2
An emotion can also be at the root of the inflammatory phenomenon of the mental body. Fear has a powerful potential to invade the mind.
Dream Reality
From a certain angle, the dream, in the sense of the nocturnal experience in general, is much more tangible and objective than all the books,
Presence Here or Samsara
Consciousness is the thread,;attention, the needle,and the moments of our lives are the sum of the holes along the stitching line. Attention is the visible
Posture : Moyen Habile (Zazen Upaya)
Ce matin, je réalise que le pouvoir dont on investit la posture de zazen dans la tradition du zen soto est possiblement un moyen habile,
Still Thought Suffering
All these philosophical and theological speculations, just like the least noble thoughts, contribute to distancing us from the fusion of consciousness in the present moment.
The Fountain Body
Posture, walking, sitting, are moments of profound reunion.Twisted, even ill, the body expresses the embrace of the worlds,both a gushing impulse and a welcoming receptacle,
