Hannya Shingyo is the fruit the heart of Avalokiteshvara, (Kannon, Guan Yin, Bodhisattva of compassion)Through compassion, transcending the world,Transcending the world to heal it,The other
Étiquette : spirituality
Chest Held Hostage
Fear sometimes takes the chest hostage.This can last for months, years.Through breathing gently, through progressive letting go, we can free the chest, as we free
Music listening and spiritual practice
Jazz, bebop: listening to higher tempi….from a slow listening point,Embracing wider…embracing from a wider perspective.Listening to the whole thing from a further, deeper place.No longer
The Idea of God
The idea of God is certainly the most difficult smokescreen to get throughOn the way to God.The idea of God is certainly what keeps us
Stray Ball, Found Ball
The golf club hits the ball with a sharp brutality and throws it into distant space.Brutality is not precise, also the shot is clumsy and
Bereshit
This morning, I’m reading an explanation of “Bereshit”: “In the beginning”, the very first word of Genesis.The author explains that this beginning is not a
Post-Apple Adam
Post-apple Adam is incapable of living cut off from his true nature,of living naturally. From then on, he knew he was naked and broke apart
Vase Of Rituals
The ritual is made for Man and not Man for the ritual. Also, this evening I encounter the usefulness of a certain ritual formalism in
Attachment to the Way
As long as there is an attachment to this or that path, the foot placed in the circle of the Heart is still shaky and
For sitting ears only
Kusen 1 By breathing, unbend the arch of the spineTensed to such an extent that inspiration no longer enters.Release the grip from the muscles on
For-Ever Safe
Here is a way of understanding the Buddhist concept of emptiness: none of the 5 aggregates: sensations, perceptions, mental formations, forms, consciousness… is worthy of
Conquering Death ?
We hear and learn, when we are of Christian culture, a certain automatic sentence: the power of this sentence, the sudden and definitive sword movement
Reconciliation In Sitting
In our sitting practice, there is reconciliation, Recognition of errors,And absolution.Understanding of behaviors that generate sufferingAnd reception in a larger space. Thought in motionEnd of
Backwater and Shore
It is not what you read in your inner eyes that will save you, but the very fact of reading.Not the object, but the process.
Threshold of Consciousness
It is sometimes the escalation in the nuisance relating to an initially minor disturbance which allows to become aware of this latter.It then appears that
Notes & Silence 