It is said that some people, through their repeated destructive activities, dig their own graves.They accelerate towards death, through addictive behavior, angry behavior, excesses of
Étiquette : spirituality
Wide Gaze, Narrow Gaze
The annoyance felt towards an external phenomenon is due to concentrated attention, an acute focus.Learning to look at things more broadly can provide practice for
The Great Return
Attachment is also the force preventing or slowing down all movement towards a return to inner balance.The body-mind entity tends towards homeostasis, dynamic balance and
My Little Disciple
By chance of a short teaching delivered to my youngest disciple, relating to non-attachment, I suddenly connect the words I say and the situation I
As The Feather Lands
I sometimes find it difficult to differentiate between religion and politics,Between debates on religion and rhetorical attempts to trigger agreement to an ideological system. Many
I Sit In Silence
I sit in silence as one opens one’s eyes in the morning, as one breaks the fast, as one leaves for work, as one goes
Zen Everywhere
One of my friends from the previous dojo, customary to utter provocative statements, used to repeat: “Zen is not Buddhist.”And that annoyed me. For some
What does it mean to sell your soul?
-What does it mean to sell your soul ?-Join the illusion, compromise yourself spiritually,It’s about making trade-offs with honesty, authenticity… Small arrangements with yourself: that
Light and Prism
There is no religion or tradition that has a monopoly on truth,He who touches the truth recognizes it in every religion.I think of the (Buddhist)
The Rooster, With All His Heart
The rooster crows as if it were hoisting with its thin legsThe next day, buried with all his weight in the darkness of the night.He
The Joy Ingredient
The key ingredient in the dish of spirituality is joy.Whatever the path, if the heart is not joyful, it is not a path of spiritualityA
The Meeting with the Beloved
The encounter with the Heart of Being, the encounter with God, should never be too hasty.The desire for the encounter has to be met, identified,
Without You
I now see that, without you, life has no meaning,since you are the meaning.Without you, my existence is the antechamber of life,Where everything runs on
Since The Dawn of Time
The Great Freedom?Here it is: see that everything we have,Is already lost, that in reality, we never truly had it.This applies to everything, everyone, to
I wanted to run away
I wanted to flee, to fight, to unmask,enrich the ego, actually The ego was everywhere,hidden and yelling. the quest for statusfor power, influence,a will for
Notes & Silence 