Whenever I speak while practicing silent sitting,It’s not really me talking to you,It is who I am,And I’m not talking to you from here,But from
Étiquette : spirituality
The Big Bad Wolf Truth
When, through a burst of clairvoyance, one of the members of the group stops playing the games that take place in the group,When one of
Intimate Relationships: A Door to the Divine
Man never ceases to seek union with the Divine.The vast majority of his strategies, practices, attempts to do so are terribly ill-oriented.Not just ill-oriented as
Tetragram : How Great God Is
The tetragram, YHWH,I am who I am,I am the one who isI am what is This is what the biblical text tells us.It’s been there,
The Universal Blade
Spirituality is made up of meadows, mountains and rivers.Along the extensive passages, we sometimes come across a few enclosures.These are religions. In these religious fields,
Silent Anarchy, Useless Debate.
There are certain people to whom nothing is explainable regarding the spiritual path, the practice, reality, the divine… This is because they have not yet
The Circumference Of My Eye
When I read, here and there, the teachings from the boundless space, I can hear the language of my family. These teachings are familiar to
Zeroing In
God is the name that you place on the depths of your soul. This name which initiates and allows investigation. According to traditions, this final
Mercantile
It is fundamental that a tradition offer a sufficiently broad framework to accommodate the reality of spiritual expression.All traditions feature trapped areas where the floor
Clinging to Forms, Sometimes
When sitting practice is difficult, respect for formal aspects is all that’s left to keep us going. Hands joined, leaning to the left, leaning to
Snobbery and Projection
As long as you have not unified within yourself the dual and non-dual paths, Everything you call “experience of the divine” is mere projection and
Solitary Practice ?
I have always been a fervent defender of making silent sitting a solitary practice.I now recognise the tendency towards formal disintegration that such a practice
Bouncing Ball
“Thinking from the depths of non-thought”, said Master Deshimaru…. Absorption in God acts as such on conceptual thinking. In the state of deep prayer, the
Killing Fear
I found the opposite of, the remedy for, fear: –Faith. Tonight, as a last resort, the faith, I embrace, because there is no other place
Godzen (2)
Would you dare to call God Zen and the other way around ?What’s left to keep you from doing so ?That’s the question. ©FJ Nov
Notes & Silence 