février 2017
Always meeting ourselves
There's always a little flutter in my heart on Feb. 2. Not because it's Groundhog Day, as it is called in America. No, it's because on this day in 1882 James Joyce was born in [...]
décembre 2016
Patti Smith on how it felt
OK, my friends. After my words, I offer here Patti Smith's words about her experience at the Nobel ceremony. Nobody could say it better.
Patti Smith’s transcendant Nobel moment
A beautiful moment of grace last night, in between news of Aleppo's tragedy, suicide bombs in Istanbul, merchants and vacuous celebrities preparing to take over America, polluted Paris coughing and gasping: Patti Smith singing Bob Dylan's [...]
Winter moon, endangered planet
It's still cold here in Paris, and the skies are pristine blue, different shades by day and night. Not a cloud in sight. But the pollution is so bad that the mayor has established alternate-day [...]
Another day
Only a few minutes to make an entry here this morning before heading to the weekend retreat. So no original image (for the moment), which is "intentional" if only because I have no time to [...]
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie: Day/Jour V
Good morning from Paris, a bit "late" again. And again, thank you all for your participation in this retreat, each in your own way. And thank you for the many kind birthday wishes you have [...]
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie: Day/Jour IV
Please forgive me: For some reason this post did not appear this morning! So only getting it online this afternoon. My most humble apologies: Good morning everyone. I'm coming a bit late to the [...]
novembre 2016
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie: Day/Jour III
I love the dying light of early winter morning today. I can't explain why. Maybe it's the rich paleness of it or the simplicity of its spareness. It's like the fallen red berries on my [...]
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie: Day/Jour II
It's a new day. Thanks to all for your comments. Keep it up. And please don't forget to tell us where you are, what city or country or street or neighborhood... On my way home [...]
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie: Day/Jour I
Good morning from Montreuil. Quietly awakening here with some green tea and the cat, thinking of all you other retreat participants (those who signed up to join and those who didn't): We're all in this [...]
A perfect place to begin
Sunday afternoon in Montreuil, overcast sky. Unlike this morning, when there was a brilliant sun illuminating the Place Jean Jaurès, which was filled with people buying bread, groceries, flowers, the Sunday papers, visiting the Christmas [...]
The day after: Yes we (still) can
So very difficult to know what to say today and how. And yet I know, like it says in the title of a Japanese Zen master's book: You have to say something. So I will [...]
septembre 2016
Thanks for a perfect beginning
Our opening night last week still seems like a dream. It was a perfect evening, from the dedication ceremony to Norman Fischer's great talk and discussion with participants to the festive party and cleanup that [...]
Opening night!
SOIRÉE D'INAUGURATION DU CENTRE WILD FLOWER Wild Flower Zen Sangha vous invite à la soirée d'inauguration de son nouveau centre parisien le JEUDI 8 SEPTEMBRE de 20h à 22h. En présence de Roshi Catherine Genno [...]
juin 2016
Wild Flower is creating a center in Paris!
And we need your help! (voir texte en français ci-dessous) Since our founding in 2004, we at the Wild Flower Zen Sangha have pursued our mission — to foster liberation for everyone everywhere — [...]
avril 2016
That’s life
A minor disruption in my quiet Sunday night: I had just finished writing something to post here about the end of our retreat when somehow it all got wiped out. Gone forever. Like the retreat... Now [...]
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie: Day V
Not much time to post this morning between sitting and moving on into the rest of the day. Some days are like that... Magnificent sun in Paris this morning. Nothing can resist the light, the [...]
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie: Day/Jour IV
Early morning in Paris, only a moment before heading off to work. Worked yesterday, too, so my sitting was brief, brief but whole, nothing outside of it for those few minutes. What lies ahead today? [...]
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie: Day/Jour III
Good morning to all from Paris. What lies ahead today? More adventures for us all. Yesterday was all about "I": "I" did some sitting with "I," "I" forgot a Skype session, "I" cleaned out a [...]
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie Day/Jour II
Good morning/Bonjour/Bom dia from Paris. Here we are on the second day of our plunge... Surrounded by a halo of wispy clouds, there was a lovely thin slice of moon high in the dark sky [...]
