The teaching I received: gently lean forward, the back slowly come back and feel the sit bones ‘hook’ the cushion and allow the subtle swing
Étiquette : wisdom
Closed Eye / Open Eye
When the spiritual eye is open, the words of traditions pulse in unison,And each teaching is animated by the same joy.And the sectarian discourse on
Read Beyond
A very refreshing ingredient of Mahayana Buddhism is an absence of a political/colonizing element from the thoughts and systems of others.The depth of the texts
Your Call
After all these hours of sitting, all this reading, and all these observations,After so much epiphany and grace raining down in marvelous flakes,How dare you
And you, have you learned your freedom ?
The outbursts of media violence have torn to pieces the sails of our Ships of Tranquility,The flashes of political decisions broke our Masts of RecklessnessThe
What Matters
What I do matters so much less than how I do it.With all my might, with an exhausted heart, if I throw myself into the
You, The Great Unsteady
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
The Right Time To Be Born
40 years old now.The energy changes.I am giving birth to myself.I don’t recognize the person I used to be.I understand him but he is now
The Workers of the Mind
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
Step One : Erase Death. Step Two : Buy From Us
The disappearance of death and aging in our modern Western societies, their fierce negation is also the effect of a coherence of the desire for
Roughness In Everyday Life
What does this gesture, so abrupt and innocuous in the eyes of all, say about you ? You, who have learned to listen, can read
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
2020: Health Crisis :Individual Rocket
There is a brutal and pernicious distortion of the representative framework of citizens.The very module by which they apprehend the world is now tampered with.
Like An Old Musician
I am thinking here, among other things, of the jazz musicians I used to admire to vividly in my youth, as they were the source
Total Crash
We are currently undergoing the latest stages in a financial bubble situation.Here, I am not just talking about what has been happening on the stock
Notes & Silence 