The breath knows the great outdoors; it is called to return to the vast.This is what listening closely to the breath teaches.Out of respect for
Étiquette : teaching
Practice: shut up and leave.
3 types of people in spiritual circles: Among disciples, the three most common profiles are found successively in the same person (or even synchronously): -Those
Constant Teaching On Unity
I remember hearing the story of a great Sufi master who had gathered several of his disciples to teach them about Divine unity (Tawhid)… When
Awakening: The Last of the Class
Intelligence is not an aid…. on the path to awakeningOn the contrary, it is a factor of opacityThe thickness of the intelligence filter is a
Teaching the World
Zen walks in the opposite direction of the worldThe world teaches absence,Zen teaches presence,Outside of zen, no life,Zen must teach the world. ©FJ Feb. 2025Recueils
Sitting Practice : Transmitter-Receiver
Consider the following two dimensions of our sitting practice : Both Transmitter and Receiver, the posture teaches the worlds and receives the teaching of the
Come back! (1/3)
Don’t forget – come back! – that under the veil of the mind that so often covers everything, things happen. The flame of the candle
Where Are You Listening From?
-Where Are You Listening From?-The Lower Center Much more than the actual content of the text or the teachings, it is the heart with which
Unique Experience
I remember the famous passage from Dogen Zenji, « To study the Way of the Buddha is to study oneself,To study oneself is to forget oneself,
Conquering Death ?
We hear and learn, when we are of Christian culture, a certain automatic sentence: the power of this sentence, the sudden and definitive sword movement
The Dream of Christ
What if the incarnation of Jesus was Christ’s dream?From the depths of his consciousness, the son of God would have closed his eyes, for a
The Art Of Ellipsis
Subtlety is expressed by a sense of ellipsis at the verbal level, as well as at the level of behavioral grammar.On a more global level,
My Little Disciple
By chance of a short teaching delivered to my youngest disciple, relating to non-attachment, I suddenly connect the words I say and the situation I
Cheap Alibi & Puppet Show
The true master is the one who constantly points towards the everyday, the simple, the just-ahead,the one who is his teaching on an after, complex
Outdated Zen
Institutional Zen: leading figures are mere caricatures who call the rancid “food” and lug their flock into a museum of dusty and artificial objects,Where they
Notes & Silence 