The results of zazen are always beneficial,Whether you are aware of it or not,Whether your intention is authentic or not,Whether the zazen sessions are wobbly
Étiquette : spirituality
Theological Misdirection
As long as God is an idea, however sumptuous, you are always in the sterile and suffering-generating insularity of the mind bubble. Theology brews ideas
Nothing Else
The lotus posture is the invitation and the making of contact and the invitation to return,But it goes further and at the same time, it
Impatience and Care
One of the expressions of impatience is haste, a more everyday occurrence, and often valued by our societies where speed is synonymous with productivity and
Nowhere Else
Nowhere else but in soient sitting is this direct contact with Reality,This open path of investigation,This free field to unfold without lies or discourses. Protect
L’Aventure Totale
Dans la simple assise, abandonner tous les cadres,les paysages d’explication, de compréhension, les enchevêtrements de concepts La prière silencieuse,La prière commence,Lorsque les mots se taisentQue
Tap-Practice
I sit in the lotus position,I don’t practice zazen like the men and women in black robes. Kesa-kolomo-oryoki… I sit in the lotus position.I don’t
Beneath the Cultural Surface
The heart of the teachings: we enter it when we stop twisting and turning within the cultural surface of the tradition we inhabit to pierce
Sacrilege
The true sacrilege consists of not practicing when your consciousness allows it.However, if you don’t practice when you have the possibility to do so, it’s
Heaven and Hell
Read in Thich Nhat Hanh in one of the Commentaries on the 50 Stances of Consciousness.This resonates with the childhood intuition recounted elsewhere in these
Let the Bird Enter
Awakening is a bird entering the room, meditation is the open window.Sometimes, put a few crumbs on the windowsill. Once a year may be enough
Dogen, Rephrasing :
To study the Way is accessing oneself.Accessing oneself is accessing something greater than oneself.Accessing something greater than oneself is being informed, fulfilled by all existences.
Through The Island
Zazen is the ultimate posture.All other beliefs, traditions, and expressions are stations prior to zazen. Zazen is the universal foundation, transcending all religions and yet
The Bald Man Was Right
The bald man, whom I eyed with suspicion, was right. Yet I saw in his words yet another gratuitous provocation, one for which he had
Amputating The Soul
Prayer is, in essence, an act of harmonization between the practitioner and reality, the universe, deep nature, God.It is the practitioner’s response to the constant
Notes & Silence 