Merciful Punishment

By sitting in silence, I increase my chances of finally hearing the grace behind the mind that is silent. However, this is not a guarantee of an encounter.The cities that God destroys here and ther…

Total Adventure

In simple sitting, abandon all frameworks,the landscapes of explanation, of understanding, the tangles of conceptsThe silent prayer,The prayer begins,When the words are silentLet the colored concep…

Disbelief-Punishment (1/2)

« Those who have not believed will suffer a vile torment »The torment is not to believe, not to see.This type of statement is often perceived as a warning: if not x, then y wi…

On the side of joy

This vague sadness that I observe tonight while watching this documentary on Zen…Heaviness, dullnessI don’t know what it is.This is foreign to me, now. I knew it, saw it, heard it,I lis…

Lost

The rigor of the framework of practice,The discipline against which we would have a thousand things to write, each justified in its own way… nevertheless presents a real interest,The vigorous…

Forehead On The Floor

I have underestimated the importance of prostration for so long. I see today from the inside and unexpectedly, in the eyes of others as in my own, — but life is alive, it cannot be otherwise-…

Living Spirituality

I am alive.My spirituality is alive,I practice the spirituality that crosses my path and reveals to me the life it contains.The spirituality that I practice is that which emanates life.This is how …

Infinitely, He Waits

God hears praise: this means that, through praise, the heart of the practitioner harmonises with the divine, with the real, with the Logos,And the disciple penetrates the divine heart.The sincere p…

Ropes and Rituals

When you make all the practice-maintaining ropes (i.e., ritual) disappear,The practice disappears: it loses its forms and tends to become shapeless, until there is nothing left.Rituals (however sim…

Remembering God

The practice of remembering God, which is found in Sufism (Dhikr) but also in other forms in the Orthodox Christian tradition (Kyrie Eleison / « Russian Pilgrim » …) is …

Coming Back To The Sitting Stable

Even if the world seems to persist in doing everything to  keep forgetting, the body knows the sitting posture…and as soon as it stops being led here or there, as soon as no one watches it or order…

What I (don’t) talk about

In the end, this has nothing to do with meand I cannot explain why or how silent sittingcracks open the heart of being,pierces the shell of the world,plants consciousness at the center of existence…

Zen and God

I sometimes wonder if not naming God, not talking about God in a practice, is not the best way to allow Him to exist in us.Zen hides the divine, while in certain expressions of theistic traditions,…

To the Breathless Soul

It is good, in spiritual practice to have moments of conceptual purge.To empty oneself of all the cerebral clusters,To pierce the pockets of agglomerated words.To give back to God what is God&rsquo…

Chasing the Shadow on the Wall

It is always astonishing to observe the ability of the mind to emulate the non-mind.Why does it act this way ?By survival reflex, because it is inherent in its nature of functioning not to be able …

Doctors Gone Wild: The Philosophy, Metaphysics & Spirituality of Naturopathy

Steve talks with Naturopath / Homeopath doctors Amandha Vollmer and Stéphanie Gaillard about cell salts, the philosophy, metaphysics & spirituality behind real medicine and why the world is in the sad, sorry state it is in today because of this lack…

Healthy Distances

Man does not need a plastered spirituality.Man needs a living spirituality.I once found it in Zen, and kept healthy distances from all formalism in practice in order to maintain this spirituality i…

Not An Exclusive Domain

The One-God cannot be other than the multiple-GodBeing the only one, He contains them all, expresses them all.God is not territorial,Territorial is not God.And as long as your quest is a quest for …

Giving Up

Could we see the one who, after tens of millions of hours of silent sitting, after kilometers of prayer, is still there, trying to find solutions through the mind?The one who is still exhausted, co…