Found in Au jour le jour, Ariane Mnouchkine's rehearsal notes for Les Éphémères (The Ephemerals): "Il faut que j'arrive à me dire que mon devoir c'est de chercher le théâtre, ce n'est pas de chercher le succès." ("I must be able to say to myself that my duty is to seek theater, not to seek [...]
Yes! Back after a month of inaccessibilty. And yet was always here. *** Oui! De retour après un mois d'inaccessibilité. Même si j'étais toujours ici.
"Quand nous conceptualisons, nous découpons et nous fixons, en éliminant tout ce que nous n'avons pas fixé. Un concept désigne un 'cela-et-rien-d'autre.' " "When we conceptualize, we cut and fix, eliminating everything that we have not fixed. A concept designates a 'this-and-nothing-else.' " --- William James, "A Pluralistic Universe" (Un univers pluraliste)
A journalist once asked Mother Teresa what she said to God when praying. “Nothing,” she replied, “I just listen.” Surprised, the journalist then asked, “So what does God say to you?” “Nothing,” Mother Teresa replied. “He just listens.”
Back after 10 days of North Sea retreat peregrinations, sand-swept and snow-flaked in abundance. Again, that old salty dog Genpo Roshi sent the roof off. How shapely is mind! How vast its flow! See us all falling, falling, all Maha, all Ameland, all round and round in the Big Wind at http://www.stilltv.com/2007/ameland
A monk asked T'ou-tzu, "Old Year is gone and New Year has arrived; is there one thing that has no relation whatever to either of the two, or not?" The master answered, "Yes." The monk asked, "What is it?" The master said, "With the ushering of New Year, the entire world looks rejuvenated, and all [...]
The important point is not to try to escape your life but to face it - exactly and completely, beyond discussing whether or not your zazen or your situation is good or bad, right or wrong. This is all you have to do. --- Dainin Katagiri Roshi, You Have to Say Something (Shambhala, 2000)
(English translation in progress) extrait du discours, Bodhidharma’s Wake-Up Sermon fait à Montreuil, le 30 décembre 2005 par Amy Hollowell Sensei Récemment, j’étais au cirque avec mon fils et mon mari. Il y avait beaucoup de monde et nous avons eu des places qui étaient un peu derrière un poteau. Le chapiteau était organisé en [...]
A monk asked, "What is the one word?" Joshu said, "If you hold on to one word, it will make an old man of you." --- The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu (Altamira Press, 1998)
Amy Hollowell Sensei is one of three dharma heirs, or successors, of the French Zen master Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi, who founded Dana Zen Center in Montreuil, France, in 1994. Genno Roshi is a second-generation dharma heir of the late Taizan Maezumi Roshi, founder of Zen Center of Los Angeles and the White Plum Asangha. [...]
Le Web carnet de Amy Hollowell Sensei, fondatrice de la Wild Flower Zen Sangha et successeur de Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi dans le lignage Zen Soto de Taizan Maezumi Roshi, fondateur du Centre Zen de Los Angeles.
The Web notebook of Amy Hollowell Sensei, founder of the Wild Flower Zen Sangha and dharma successor of Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi in the Soto Zen lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, founder of the Los Angeles Zen Center.
