Spiritual practice means dwelling in life from the depthPrayer, meditation are forms of practice,The practice does not change,The posture is formless form.In this, it is
Spiritual practice means dwelling in life from the depthPrayer, meditation are forms of practice,The practice does not change,The posture is formless form.In this, it is
The man’s lighthouse has gone out. Or maybe it appeared.The Buddha shines flawlessly with an ever-new sun.The lighthouse is always on the groundAnd the sky
What is Zazen ?Zazen is the last bastion of honesty in my life.Even if I ignore it,If I lose myself in the voluntary infatuation of
There’s a life beyond this one,More precisely, what the fingers of the different traditions are pointing to, is beyond the Beyond.This latter refers above all
At the bottom of GodThere is Zen,At the bottom of Zen,There is God.« Your heart condemns you, God is greater than your heart »,Zen is here. ©FJ
In Isaiah 40;28“Do you not know ?” Have you not heard ? The lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the end of the
It is such a grace to have people willing to walk over us, despise us one way or another, so as to assert themselves as
There is sometimes such and such an area in our lives that we claim to dislike, or no longer support. Such an activity or relationship
It’s not because we talk about « just sitting » and of “not doing” that zazen consists of “simply waiting”.It is not because in zazen we are
I know Zen doesn’t talk about God.And I know that mindfulness has no official place in Christianity…But when I read 1 COR 10:31 (“So whether
By sitting Zazen,I come back in neutral.The point of the all-possible,The point of waiting-nothingAt the Ku-Shiki border Exactly where everything happensAnd where nothing happens.From this
After all these years, the true sutra still runs behind the sutra in the mind. The mind sutra still runs behind the upcoming sitting session,
What does this gesture, so abrupt and innocuous in the eyes of all, say about you ? You, who have learned to listen, can read
Books, masters and teachings,Are mirrors in front of which you standTo see the color of your eyes. Nothing is more natural than the color of
These writings are not intended to teach the world from some place of groundless pretension.These are notes to myself, taken in snap, in the urgency