Zazen : seeing DeathComing forth as inner eyes adjust. Zazen : agreeing to stay putAnd sit one-on-one with Life Singing in tune, at last,With what
Étiquette : spirituality
To the Teacher Who Wanted More
There are few people who meet so many eyes, as they go about their lives. Today, you’re telling me that you wished more for yourself,
Cushion Diving (3/3)
See Cushion Diving (1/3) and Cushion Diving (2/3) I’m asking you to move down a few notches below words.Down enough to see what words do
The Heart of Disaster
This is why disease or tragedy, when they appear in someone’s life can — in a paradoxical and counterintuitive manner — turn out to be
Night Howling (March 2020)
A strange wind is blowing on humanity.A wind that’s coming from afar.Determined, this wind is howling for a reason.I could hear its omen in the
Simplify Your Life Equation (2/2)
I am not this house
I am not this money.
Simplify Your Life Equation (1/2)
Simplify your lifeLike you would simplify the terms of an equationUntil a few numbers remainSo you can understand them in a glance… … In a
the Heart-Ocean
Identity is frothThose bubbles hypnotizeThe eyes of our being. They sparkle, fizzle,Agglutinate and burst. Wide, tranquil, emergency-freeThe heart-ocean does not change a thingTo its peaceful
Plastic Box (quote)
Everything is fake inside the plastic box : people, stories, laughters and faces… …But the thousands of days in your life that you spent in
All other ways
There are so many ways, leading to the Way. This Way where all ways lead can actually be found. We lay there in peace, deeply
A Fair Question to ask
Through my mouth or through my pen, is the ever-new essence flowing ? Or are all these words nothing but an automatic repetition of non-integrated
Dive Under the Names
Once I have seen,That my true nature is divineAll this tagging and naming frenzyHas stopped being an issue Rest in beauty, in the deepest selfWhere
Undercurrent (quote)
The one who knows Knows no matter what we do, No matter what we think. Franck Joseph ©FJ December 2019 All rights reserved. Les articles
And Zen itself can Disappear … (quote)
« I believe the real teaching of Zen, its core material, is to remind us there is no spirituality separated from what is — literally –at
The Safe and the Manual
We could consider religions as technical users’ guides to explain algorithms and mechanism of a safe protecting the truth. They claim their thoroughness and exhaustiveness.
Notes & Silence 