Welcoming GodWelcoming you Buddha NatureIs one silent, inner phenomenon,An inner process. There are no words for this,And it is incredibly simple Words make things complicated,This

Welcoming GodWelcoming you Buddha NatureIs one silent, inner phenomenon,An inner process. There are no words for this,And it is incredibly simple Words make things complicated,This
The time given to practice acts as an agent of dilution on mental phenomena.A swirling thought in a 15 millimeter puddle becomes a hurricane that
See what has happened to you, when you forget to look at what’s going on in the Great Hall of Thoughts…You were made to believe
When kindergarten children are rolling on the carpet, screaming and bumping into each other, all in perfect chaos, sometimes the teacher, with a single clap,
Constellations do not exist.Even if I can see the saucepan,I know there is no such thing as a saucepan in the sky.Neither as such nor
Experience the physiological parallel between the superficiality of phenomena linked to thought (“the mind”) and superficial breathing.The means of action is bilateral: – dis-sinvesting the
It’s not because we talk about « just sitting » and of “not doing” that zazen consists of “simply waiting”.It is not because in zazen we are
By straying too far from practice, one would almost forget the futility of all exogenous knowledge.Through the practice of just sitting, we reside (‘abide’) on
My mind, a flickering candle light,My inner eyes, the endless tranquility of the night. ©FJ June 2022 —Groupe de PratiqueRecueils — Participations
It happens often that a trivial event, without great importance and relating to everyday life more than to the breach of normality, comes to occupy
To the central adage of the practitioner according to which “thoughts have no existence”, I propose to substitute this one: “thoughts are not important”. It
One could object to the argument according to which all thoughts are illusory that this argument is also a thought, and therefore illusory.Thus, all thoughts
Before, after the cushion,Listen to the wisdom between two hasty movements, On the cushion,Listen to the teaching between two foggy thoughts Gestures and thoughts are
There is a continuum between awareness to gestures, movements and observation of thoughts.One leads to the other and conversely. Gestures are thoughts in movement,Thoughts are
During sitting meditation, Man walks on a ridge, the winds of thoughts sweep him left and right, send him twirling in the distance,For a minute