Hyper-Présence

La méditation est une expérience d’hyperprésence par le retrait.Hyperprésence à tout par le retrait de la présence aux éléments de ce tout.Elle est repli du monde, pour habiter au coeur des mondes.…

Awakening Line

It’s so amazing, so wonderfulTo see that the bottom of failure and the edge of awakeningAre one and the same line. ©FJ September 2022Recueils / ParticipationsTelegram (Publications et Pratiqu…

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…

Our Father

By reciting the Lord’s Prayer, its first line, as my inner eyes open, a few seconds before the opening of my physical eyelids.On this step of consciousness, from which the door onto the day will op…

The Muzzle In The Mudra

Before sunrisezazen,the cat is playing with its tailthe rooster answers the lightmaybe the cat will still turn in all directions…Before sunrisethe cat places its muzzle in the mudra.Then lies…

No Other God (note)

« There is no other God but God. » Is it possible that this fundamental phrase of Islam, the primordial prayer of all practitioners, is the way that this tradition points to t…

Presence-Detecting Cushion Keeps You From Sitting Your Life Away

They say that sitting is the new smoking. They’re wrong — smoking is much, much worse, for you than sitting, and smoking only while standing or while jogging around the block in no way …

Ultimate Wisdom

Before, after the cushion,Listen to wisdom between two hasty movements,On the cushion,Listen to the teaching between two foggy thoughtsGestures and thoughts are the Holy Book, within us every momen…

Nothing New

Behind the common use of the mindfulness word, quite recent, after all, under our latitudes,are hidden further-rooted words of ‘depth and authenticity’.Depth and authenticity are the mo…

My Mind On Other Things

I wish that, on this evening, May 30th, 2020,That the whole Cosmos,Everything it carries, and everything that carried this planet,Forgave me for not having been present on the endless list of appoi…

Just

The only thing we should remember in our practice is how easy it is to forget the ‘just’ in ‘just sitting’. FJ Fev 2022Recueils / ParticipationsTelegram (Publications et Pratique)

Jesus Always Breathes Life

Jesus turns water into wine.A couple of bread loaves into a thousand-person meal,Death into lifeLimits into infinity,Smothering into Divine Breath ©FJ Sept 2021 – Many thanks to all.Telegram link :…

Hakim Ouvre La Porte

La façon dont le corps se ressent — de l’intérieur et si proche qu’il est tellement aisé de ne pas le voir — ceci est du même ordre que le mental et son activité. Magnétique et entétant…

A Crater Of Tears

Why not admit it ?Loneliness is, at least partiallyThe engine of this spiritual quest.This loneliness pushes us towards the quest on our inner maps.It is the strength which places our feet one…

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Aie Confiance

La beauté de zazen est  : ce n’est pas parce que nous ne parvenons pas à le formuler ou que nous n’en sommes pas conscients, que rien ne se décante. Franck Joseph©FJ June 2021 – All Righ…