Losing the spirit of simplicity generates a shallow practice : one more empty shell,one more eggshell on the side of the path, whose living animal is
Étiquette : spirituality
Just
The only thing we should remember in our practice is how easy it is to forget the ‘just’ in ‘just sitting’. FJ Fev 2022Recueils /
Buddha Zazen
Deshimaru, when commenting the Shin Jin Mei :‘An individual zazen will remain inefficient for the rest of our life,A cosmic zazen can be called ‘Buddha-Zazen’ Who
Tossing Back The Lid
The immediate contact with the depths of their being :This is what they’re all scared about. As soon as they can sense its emerging premises, it
The Remedy Of Vacuity
Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us that the Buddha talked about the concept of Ku / Empliness / Vacuityin order to neutralize the concept we have
Lame Ducks And Myself
Sophie walked a little bit closer to the group of people talking and heard the prominent disciple, the one everyone would swear he would succeed
All Reality Down The Singing Bowl
Have you come to realize that all the words you are reciting,Matter much less than the quality of your presence as you are reciting them ?Rituals,
Days Like This
There are days when the sitting practice is the only moment of authenticity.Our surge of tears rises once we realize the black hole of vanity
Nectar Of Life
Mindfulness is not another practice to be threaded into a necklace,Even if it the most beautiful of all pearls.Mindfulness is awareness of life. On every
Syntax Of Life
There are two ways to place oneself in a relation to life.The intellectual difference between grammar and linguistics has something to teach us. Grammar proposes
The Horse-King
That mental strength…Harness it with the right saddlery.In itself, it is already a serious difficulty, for some people’s horses can be so young, excited, so
Fleeing Process
As long as you do not reside in the Absolute, you are fleeing,Don’t start chasing the Absolute, for you’d be fleeing,You need to see the
True Practice
Whenever you sit, genuinely,When you disarm all gears and stop entrenching yourself behind the codes maintaining the structures of others’ sitting practice. Whenever the last
Night Sand
The limitations of your mind are the bricks against which you keep banging,without necessarily knowing it,Bricks that will eventually crumble down.Walls and floors alike block
Night Nutriments
Unspeakable sounds decimate the forests of my nights.Ancestral inhabitants, friendly residents,Flee towards other dark fogs of silence. Acid rains of the unsaidDrip through leaves and
Notes & Silence 