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…

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…

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…

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…

Cube

Statues, candles, incense,We often see them as ritual supportsWhen it is the rituals which are supports of practice and the practice itself is a support of spiritual joy. We cannot solve the equati…

Music listening and spiritual practice

Jazz, bebop: listening to higher tempi….from a slow listening point,Embracing wider…embracing from a wider perspective.Listening to the whole thing from a further, deeper place.No longer getting ca…

Corporate Face

1: Corporation control – But what would I be without you?My company, my group, my corporation, …My very life!You who give all the presence to my pretty suit, my uniformWhat would happen…

Zen Show

Le zazen-spectacle m’ennuie, Je n’y assiste pasni chez les autres, ni chez moi. ©FJ April 2024Recueils / Participation/ Groupe Telegram

A wordless reading

Reading the Bible or the Koran in French is it itself a profound teaching,Indeed, French will never be able to transcribe the subtleties of the Hebrew or Arabic of the original texts.This constitut…

Attachment to the Way

As long as there is an attachment to this or that path, the foot placed in the circle of the Heart is still shaky and does not offer enough security to transfer the weight of the body, so as to mov…

« Divide and Rule »

Why has this unfair ploy for people worked so well since time immemorial ? Perhaps this is because this adage is underpinned by a powerfully effective psychological principle of which it would be t…

Intimate Depths

In the incense stick,living and dying are not two.The same goes for Man.Blocking the reduction of the burning stick,Preventing it from dying,This immediately kills it.The incandescent impulse of li…

For sitting ears only

Kusen 1By breathing, unbend the arch of the spineTensed to such an extent that inspiration no longer enters.Release the grip from the muscles on the diaphragm cord.The pointing arrow attracts attac…

Lingui-Graph

Putting life into words, through a property of reality crystallization, serves man as much as it harms him.On the one hand, it offers him a grip on the fleeting, the moving, the complex.On the othe…

Zen Show

The zen show bores me to death,I do not attend this show.Neither when performed by others,nor by myself ©FJ April 2024Recueils / Participation/ Groupe De Pratique

Non-Self And The Eternal Soul

The soul is changing.The absence of a permanent self ceases to mean the negation of the soul as soon as we recognize its changing nature:This means that a quick reading of the Buddha’s teachi…

Unraveling Reality

The encounter with the divine, place of a thousand and one joysThis is how this evening I dive back into the forgotten essence.I can keep bringing up problems in my mind for entire weeks, use all m…