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mars 2008

Beyond good and evil

By | mars 31st, 2008|Categories: Textes|

"Pour les Anciens comme pour les mystiques, ce champ qu'ils s'accordent à reconnaître comme celui de la divinité se situe au-delà du plaisir et du déplaisir, au-delà du bien comme du mal. Quiconque veut y [...]

Abundant nothing

By | mars 30th, 2008|Categories: Textes|

If you knew there was nothing to get, would you keep grabbing? If you open to the abundant nothing, what is there left to grab?

The less I know

By | mars 25th, 2008|Categories: Textes|

In the garden this morning, I am looking where I always look. Blossoms stand ghostlike in abundant tree foliage. A dead leaf hangs captive in the frayed strands of a flag, flit-flapping. Undergrowth and overgrowth [...]

No Idea

By | mars 18th, 2008|Categories: Poésie|

How can it last, this headline world of shortcuts carved daily in no space and time?

Days of sitting

By | mars 12th, 2008|Categories: Textes|

Two days of Zen practice in Paris with the Wild Flower Zen Sangha and Amy Hollowell April 6 (Sunday) May 17 or 18 (Saturday or Sunday, date to be confirmed) 9h30-17h30 Beginners and experienced practitioners [...]

La présence intérieure/Inner presence

By | mars 12th, 2008|Categories: Textes|

"...ce secret n'est que la présence intérieure, silencieuse, insondable et nue, qu'une attention toujours donnée aux mots (aux objets) nous dérobe..." Georges Bataille, L'expérience intérieure (Gallimard) ("...this secret is nothing but the inner presence, silent, [...]

Life is movement and rest at once

By | mars 4th, 2008|Categories: Textes|

I might say that having never left, I am back again. A long weekend in Portugal and now return to Montreuil, Paris, Neuilly. There was a second jukai ceremony, with photos to come, either here [...]

février 2008

janvier 2008

No language that isn’t the dharma

By | janvier 28th, 2008|Categories: Textes|

Have been off in the North Sea, on a windswept island, in an unending swirl of the 10,000 things, studying with my teacher's teacher and the extended Great Maha Sangha. Thus, my silence here. "There's [...]

décembre 2007

La solitude glorieuse/Glorious solitude

By | décembre 29th, 2007|Categories: Textes|

"...l'oeuvre de Giacometti communique la connaissance de la solitude de chaque être et de chaque chose, et que cette solitude est notre gloire la plus sûre." Jean Genet l'atelier d'alberto giacometti (L'Arbalète, 2007) ("...Giacometti's work [...]

novembre 2007

Who is binding you?

By | novembre 7th, 2007|Categories: Textes|

The 31st Zen patriarch, Dai I Zenji, made his bows before Kanchi Daishi and said, "I beg the compassion of your reverence. Please teach me the Dharma way of emancipation." The patriarch said, "Who is [...]