Zazen during the day is the hub of the wheel.It is nothing, but without the sitting practice, nothing ever comes together.Inactivity gives way to activity.Without
Étiquette : spirituality
Sitting, On the Way to the Stable
The body in zazen is the horse that leads us back to the stable,The mind, the rider who searches but doesn’t know where he’s going,So,
The Path to Peace
Non-discrimination is the absence of discrimination between what is presented to us.Thus, there is no individual, no situation that we like or reject more than
Everything Is Important
In Zen,Everything is eminently important,Also, every detail deserves supreme attention,and nothing really matters. ©FJ_August 2025Recueils / Participation/
Gassho
Gassho : bowing before zazen,as one enters the inner temple. ©FJDec 2025Books / Participation/ Groupes
Great Pool
Equanimity is ultimately the great pool in which nothing is as important as we think. The great pool,The great ocean,The vast mind,The one mind ©FJ
All Names
What I see anchored to the heart, Heart emerging from the Heart, why must I name it? Why not give it all names? God, Mercy,
When the Circumference Speaks to the Center
One of the main causes of confusion and wasted time in spiritual/religious matters comes from the belief that because people use the same words, they
Erasing Work
These words appear as they are, planted as such in my mind.When I try to appear through them, the text becomes stained and insipid. It’s
Bottlenecks on the Spiritual Chain
The spiritual obstacle for the meditation practitionner may consist of seeking outside validation for what he finds within.The obstacle for the religious person may consist
Interdependence
Two remarks on what the reality of the conditioned co-production of phenomena in Buddhism directly implies: the interdependence of everything and the absence of self.
The Nature of Nature
If the materials from your religion are part of what blocks the path to Being, this is an indicator of the distortion of these materials,
Literally
It is true that in spirituality, literalism is particularly annoying, both for its tedious idiocy (limiting the scope of spiritual expression) and for the tiring
Perpetual Present Intimacy
Among the worst things traditions (whether intentionally or through lazy erosion) have done to spirituality, is the disconnection from the teachings of the now. The
Source of Eternal Life
One of the greatest ironies is to realize that the Zen tradition is stifled under a thousand layers of constructions around Zen. These constructions have
Notes & Silence 