Bodily Thoughts

When sitting, it is not enough to go through thoughts.In the same way that these are an emanation of the mind,It is necessary to go through « bodily thoughts ». By this term I…

God Is Great

When we say: « God is great »,it is not so much, in reality, about showing an excess of obsequious sensitivity: « Look at me, Lord, I say that You are great, I reco…

Letting Pray

Dogen and the Zen tradition invite us to let ourselves be taught by the river, the mountain. The simple fact that the term Dharma means teaching and reality of the universe is in itself a clear inv…

Locked-Up Outside

And I got lost again in the external religion. I have once again tried to superimpose with pathological precision what I do and what some claim must absolutely be done. I forgot that by following t…

Je m’assois en silence

Je m’assois en silence comme on ouvre les yeux au matin, comme on rompt le jeûne, comme on part au travail, comme on oeuvre à la tâche de ses jours, comme on rentre le soir, comme on se lave après …

Fall On The Surface

The primordial fall of man is due to a reversal of the hourglass of his being.He operates a reversal of his inner universe.Thus, man falls from the depths to his surface being.The second reversal t…

They no longer have a hold on such a man.

The very fine connoisseurs of the human psyche,Are eminently powerful.Their understanding of the guiding psychological mechanisms allows them to develop a broad influence on the behavior of those t…

Ferme, Lis

Je ferme les yeux et je lis en moi, Voilà ma pratique, mon assise, ma prière. ©FJ Feb 2024Recueils / Participation/ Groupe

Effusion and Sobriety

I clearly establish a powerful link between external sobriety and internal effusion.To the point that the maintenance of one is the necessary condition for the emergence of the other.This is certai…

Freedom of God

The Spirit is so free and God is so great;The codes, the rules they teach, aim to dispose us to this great freedomThe limits that state it, aim to allow us to go towards the experience of the limit…

Silence

Our sitting practice teaches the place of silence;It puts silence back in its place.It allows the work of distancing the oppressive content, or invisible when too close. Silence is the void that al…

Dusty Practice

When the block of stones collapses to the ground,The cloud of dust it generated is so dense, so unexpected, that it comes to obscure the sky and the sun, a distant glow, no longer appears in the di…

Default Mercy

In the fathomless depths of the soul, there is only mercy,there is only welcome and mercyMercy by default, because there is no offense but ignorance and blindness,This is the meaning of «&nbs…

Ideas Idols

Ideas are idols.They are idols made of thoughts. To worship idols is to identify with thoughts,It was believed that they have the power to carry us beyond sufferingTo leave this infernal kingdom of…

How Great Thou Art

He reminds me,He reminds me that consciousness is infinite,It goes well beyond the modalities of perception of existence at a given moment,Under daily aspects.Yet it transcends and pierces each of …

Grace and Audacity

A true grace is that of seeing the unique through traditions.This grace grants the courage, the audacity necessary to remain outside a frame of mind consisting of thinking that only one of the trad…

Grace and Audacity

A true grace is that of seeing the unique through traditions.This grace grants the courage, the audacity necessary to remain outside a frame of mind consisting of thinking that only one of the trad…