And in all these difficult moments, beyond all these conflicts, you will always be able to offer others your serenity, presenting them the mirror of
Étiquette : suffering
Is This Body Mine?
I have long believed that aging was suffering, an incessant sequence of slaps in the face from life.I have long believed that those who let
Nehemiah, (5:6) Spiritual Usury
« When I heard their outcry and these charges, I was very angry. 7 I pondered them in my mind and then accused the nobles and officials. I
The Wheel of Suffering
It takes a lot of courage to leave your loop, Jump out of the wheel, Even the loop of suffering become s comfortable. This is
In This Sitting Body
All lessons,The finest resonances of our deep being,stand there, In this sitting body,Which pulls and cracks,In this body often reluctant to sitting. Sometimes you see
Remedy for Suffering
Hidden behind the way followers of various traditions think that the body of texts they cherish as an inalienable block of non-negotiable truth,Inside the childish
Relative Suffering
Two strategies consist in relativizing the suffering of a being: -By comparing this suffering to the level of suffering experienced by their peers (« it’s the
By The Horns Of Zen
You have to be a hothead to take spirituality by the horns of Zen.This animal of spirituality is the only companion for the desperate, the
« Unfit »
Unfit : unable to adaptunable to adaptor adaptable at excessive expense. Most of the suffering experienced by the unfit person comes from frustration, or maladjustment
Open-Sky Monastery
I enter meditation as one enters the monastery.The outer racing tracks has ceased to raise any interest in me. I saw through it.Burning,Burning the body,Coming
Mental Lining
Isn’t Samsara the mental lining that we sew on the worldThe slice where our representations, judgments, fears, attachments proliferate.And this world, in returns, feeds our
Incompleteness
In Zazen, all my incompleteness passes, without hurting meThe once lamentable, leaves an evanescent trace,In a boundless landscape, They can wane and vanish, The instant
Facing Life’s Phenomena
People often complain there is nothing they can do.It’s actually not true.Mindfulness. This is what we can do.Offering presence to the moment, any moment, is
Barrel Of War
Being a Bodhisattva is the only way of saving others.But it is also the only way to save ourselves. For, without entering the way of
Suffering Of Ageing
Some people believe that getting old is something they have allowed to happen to them and therefore adopt a position of opposition.They fight back, tighten
Notes & Silence 