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Étiquette : spirituality
About Discipline : Raw Sitting
Here is a short note inspired by C., a Zazen friend. What place should be given to rigor, discipline, stick-to-it-iveness? I am not known to
He Knows These Things!
Behind the acquisition of knowledge is sometimes hidden a search for an upper hand to be taken on the future recipients of a knowledge generally
Screens Kill.
Television and screens take you away from yourself,they deprive you of the inclination to investigate consciousness.They invest the field of freedom and fill it with
Daily Holy
Sacred texts and secular events reveal their interchangeability in nature. The texts become secular and everyday events become sacred, when we observe one and the
Less and Less
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
Filtered Gray
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.
Gratitude
I feel such gratitude towards…I don’t know. Zazen in my life is such an injection of beauty, breadth, perspective, clarity, an energetic embrace, an ocean
Free Yourself, Breathe At Last
This is a translation from an audio note in French : here Realize that religions are an artificial reading grid that we have just added
With Full Ignorance
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
Transparent Calmness
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
“A Useless Gathering?”
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.
Intentionally left blank (note in progress)
(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
Inaudible Tinnitus
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
By The Horns Of Zen
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
Notes & Silence 