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…

Placing Your Consciousness

Placing your consciousness as you would your voice to express yourself.Placing your consciousness deeply enough to live the practices from the core of truth.Whether they are periods of silence, med…

Honouring Practice

I observe in my practice that an important aspect of meditation and prayer to which too little attention is paid is the way in which we put an end to this formal practice of prayer and meditation. …

Listen, Remember, Free Yourself

And remember that Zen does not belong to anyoneneither to you, nor to me,nor to those who claim it,nor to the elders of the mountains, nor to the young people of the cities,nor to books, nor to spe…

Attachment to the Framework

A very large part of what we call ‘religion’ actually relates to the mental universe.A very large part of what we call ‘conversion’ actually relates to the substitution of o…

Book of the Body

The Holy Book, in silent sitting practice, is the Book of the Body.Doing zazen :reading the book of the body,The posture is the edition, the binding, the font, the layout,Consciousness runs through…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

The Book To Read

Aren’t you done reading books in search of the life-changing sentence you would come across ? The one that would supposedly settle all matters for good ?It does not work that way.However well-inspi…

Vase Of Rituals

The ritual is made for Man and not Man for the ritual. Also, this evening I encounter the usefulness of a certain ritual formalism in spiritual practice, in the sense that this formalism “forms” th…

‘Sabbath for Man’ threshold

Jesus: ‘The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.” It is possible to read in these words a teaching similar to the one held in Zen: the boat is used to cross the river. There is no…

Central Being

The result of the fear induced by the objective context or, as is the case during the troubled times which surround the writing of these lines, by a political-media fabrication, is above all, a de-…