You have always made do with pretending.Today, pretending just won’t do. Compliance with other’s pretending does not protect against anything.It only pays the highest price
Étiquette : spirituality
The Gift of Irritation
While sitting Zazen, distraction is often what ‘calls us back to order’…An object hitting the floor, for instance, is what show us the way out
Does It Matter ?
When questioned about Mahayana, Theravada Buddhism, Zen,Ch’an or transmissions,On the chronological order of this and that,The master is getting a bit confused. The impulse to
Hear The Call
The adventure to which we are invited by Christ : ‘Effata’, is not different from what zazen practitioners discover beneath his silent sitting.By opening to silence,
Faith In Zazen
The beauty of Zazen is :It is not because we are unable to phrase it,Or because we are not even aware of itThat nothing is decanting.
Zooming out on Couples
The couple format is to man/woman relation what Zazen practice is to our lives :It needs to offer enough space to appreciate our great freedom. Franck
The Accordion Principle
The times of old age already herald the times of childhood,And the watermarked child appears through the old man.Relaxation and contraction: childhood unfurls again.Even though
Deceit
The scattering of arguments, and the multi-directional approach to argumentation,even though those elements may be rhetorically acceptable,are often a major indicator of the lack of
Silence teaches Silence
Silence teaches the pointlessness of mocking,Of the attempt to reach the final witty remark.Silence opens to the appeasing state related to extinctionAnd takes us further
Off-Trail Prayer
The Way Of Jesus is a downward slope, abrupt and simple.Religion tries really hard to climb it upPitching befuddling concepts into the stone.Off-trail hiking may
A Wide Wide Heart (1/4)
The monster living inside your rib cageHas shown his face through your eyesAnd roared through your voice.Had the cage gone too small ?Has anyone forgotten to
Silence Will Sit
First you need to keep silent, keep the silence, protect it, like a bodyguard.Surround it and make sure that conditions are preserved to sustain silence.
Background Noise And Rec Level
There are times when loneliness is our choiceFor the peace it brings.For some beings, solitude is a practical solution for peace. To those, distancing from
Healing For Good
Some difficulties are invisible, inexpressible….They can only be understood once they have left us.A sentence, a word which comes out, without warning,The body, which alleviates
You Don’t Play The Truth
I have been watching you for a long time, nowthere is no place left where you can hide.You sit and talk and play the BuddhaBut
Notes & Silence 