décembre 2006
« Ulysse » de Joyce : Shikantaza sur le Liffey
"Ulysse," de James Joyce, publié pour la première fois en 1922, à Paris, dans une édition limitée, est généralement considéré comme l’une des plus grands oeuvres en prose (sinon la plus grande) du 20ème siècle, [...]
What word?/Quel mot?
"What is that word known to all men? I am quiet here alone. Sad too. Touch, touch me." --- James Joyce, "Ulysses" "Quel est ce mot connu de tous les hommes? Je suis tranquille ici [...]
novembre 2006
L’essence de la voie, c’est “oui”
(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 [...]
Joyce’s « Ulysses: » Shikantaza on the Liffey
James Joyce’s "Ulysses," first published in 1922, in a limited edition in Paris, is generally recognized as one of the 20th century’s greatest works of prose (if not the greatest) in the English language. It [...]
One Word
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, [...]
Resistance is difficult, not change
Sky is gray in Paris. Garden a galaxy of colors. Grass still green; some leaves drop, some hold. Pee ocher yellow green new daily. Paws wet, the tan cat comes in from the rain. Road [...]
Cease to strive/Cesse de lutter
"Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street. No birds. Frail from the housetops two plumes of smoke ascended, pluming, and in a flaw of softness softly were blown. Cease to strive. Peace [...]
Stumbling on the Perfect Way
Chance furnishes me what I need. I am like a man who stumbles along; my foot strikes something, I bend over and it is exactly what I want. --- James Joyce
Hold to the now
"Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past." --- James Joyce, "Ulysses"
Amy Hollowell Sensei’s lineage
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 [...]
Icimaintenant/Herenow
Le Zen défie toute définition: ni religion, ni philosophie, ni système de pensée, ni doctrine, ni croyance. La méditation Zen, pratique de base, nous aide à expérimenter ce qui ne peut pas être défini: l'instant [...]
A wafting cloud in the sky
We may say that Christianity is monotheistic and the Vedanta pantheistic; but we cannot make a similar assertion about Zen. Zen is neither monotheistic nor pantheistic; Zen defies all such designations. Hence there is no [...]
Parlez-vous je-ne-sais-pas?
Il y a une pratique qui consiste à expérimenter dans son assise l'état de ce que l'on appelle je-ne-sais-pas. Ce n'est qu'une technique, et non un but. Il existe des pratiques qui consistent à identifier [...]
Realization is now
Seeing through the mundane and witnessing the sublime is less than an eye-blink away. Realization is now. Why worry about gray hair? --- Bodhidharma
