L'ÉCLAIR ME DURE... Comment dire ma liberté, ma surprise, au terme de mille détours: il n'y a pas de fond, il n'y pas de plafond. René Char (THE LIGHTENING REMAINS WITH ME How to express my freedom, my surprise, after a thousand detours: there is no bottom, there is no top.)
Individuals, just as they are, reveal the unity of Buddhas and beings, without inside or outside. It is wholly manifested at this very moment, in this very place. Gesshu Zenji, 17th-century Zen master
"Qu'est-ce que le Tao? Au-dessous de toutes les formes, ce qui n'a pas de forme, ce qui voit sans yeux, ce qui guide sans savoir, l'ignorance qui est la suprême connaissance." Paul Claudel (dans Cinq méditations sur la beauté, de François Cheng) ("What is the Tao? Above all forms, that which is formless, which sees [...]
L'automne va plus vite, en avant, en arrière, que le râteau du jardinier. --- René Char, extrait du poème A.M.H. (The autumn goes faster, forward, backward, than the gardener's rake.)
"The very beginning mind itself is the most accomplished mind of true enlightenment." (Avatamsaka Sutra) Present once more after absence imposed by the technicalities of our information age. Im-posed? Only im-position is that of the unposed stillness of ever-never-moving in endless motion. Now: time and place is always right. Just trust it. Ulysses: still: work [...]
Back from an inspiring pilgrimage to the old country, to the mother temple, ZCLA. How marvelous! So many, so much, Simply All one. Have a look at how/who we were/are (thanks to Peter/Kuku): www.stilltv.com/2007/zcla/ *** This, from Dogen Zenji on the Lotus Sutra (in The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment by Taizan Maezumi and Bernie Glassman): [...]
Three fundamentals of meditation, which correspond to Joyce's three points concerning appreciation of a work of art (see "Beholding" entry below) and also three points of a triangle, and an egg, for that matter: - Do not centralize your attention inward, do not cling to or identify with thoughts, sensations, perceptions. - Do not seek [...]
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)
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.
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