Awakening Emergency

“It has never been so urgent to awaken”This sentence, always true, has never been so true. ©FJ September 2022Recueils / ParticipationsTelegram (Publications et Pratique)

Observe ‘Being Done’

Sitting zazen : scouring the pipes and brewing the thoughts that hang on edges…You, watch.Don’t look for a technique to apply, a sequenced protocol to unroll, to achieve the intended go…

Join Me Gently

Asking someone to reconsider their entire belief system can never lead to a peaceful discussion.Even though he would agree with our words, from a strictly conceptual point of view, their own psycho…

Dew

By capillarity,a zafu drives up the truth.some wordsthe morning dew – ©FJ August 2022Recueils / ParticipationsTelegram (Publications et Pratique)

« I am an Activist »

It is not a question here of criticizing the commitment but of evoking an aspect we see emerging here and there, of inviting to further investigate ourselves in case we’d happen to express it in on…

Raked with Breath

The depth of life experience has nothing to do with anything which can ever be written.Life, however, is always the same.It is inhabited in a spacious, poised atmosphere.Life is welcomed today.The …

Facing Life’s Phenomena

People often complain there is nothing they can do.It’s actually not true.Mindfulness. This is what we can do.Offering presence to the moment, any moment, is what we can do.This has ever been and w…

Tsunami Or Gentle Stream

The source of nuisance : noise, speech, excitement… is not a nuisance as such.It is not the noise that disturbs, nor the excitement of the speech in itself.Observation teaches that nuisance i…

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 foreign to me.His speeches no longer speak to me.I let…

Fenêtres D’illusion

Sur Netflix, à l’écran, un mur d’icones apparait. Chacune d’entre elles est une fenêtre promettant l’évasion.Autant de promesses de souffrances pour celui qui s’y perd et se met à distance de toute…

Horse Whispering As A Practice

Each name placed on an inner impression is sitting on the back of an emotional horse whose nature is much more eloquent than the name of the emotion riding him.To know the reality of the content of…

Vice Networks

The element that is sufficient to characterize social networks as intrinsically flawed, i.e. the element intrinsic to social networks justifying that their use can only lead us on paths of sufferin…

Lunar Gravel

Many spiritual writings seek to attest to the authenticity of their experience.Authentic experience does not need to be attested. It is.There is no one to attest to the authenticity of the genuine …

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 it.It’s not just your body grabbing hold of the object,There is so…

The Colour Of Your Eyes

Books, masters and teachings,Are mirrors in front of which you standTo see the color of your eyes.Nothing is more natural than the color of your eyes,Nothing is better experienced, better known to …

Live With / Live Against

I can see … Waves of sadness come and go ,I hear myself calling the high tides of sadnessAnd see my strange attachment when swimming in salty water.Immersed in familiar melancholyBathed in loneline…

Hyper-Presence

Meditation is an experience of hyper-presence through withdrawal.Hyper-presence to everything by withdrawing presence from the elements of this whole.It is a withdrawal from the world, in order to …

Sable Déposé de Nuit

Les limitations de l’esprit sont des briques contre lesquelles tu te cognes sans nécessairement le savoir et qui, bien que semblant solides et impénétrables, lâcheront subitement.Les murs et les so…