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juin 2011

Suddenly, this morning

By |juin 13th, 2011|Categories: Textes|

Suddenly Monday already, and yet another holiday here in France. The day began with a surprise when I flipped the switch for the light in the bathroom: suddenly no electricity. Whatever I might have been [...]

Becoming, on and on

By |juin 9th, 2011|Categories: Textes|

Came across this tonight, a wonderfully rich summary of practice and life, life and practice from Shunryu Suzuki: Without any idea of time, your practice goes on and on. Moment after moment you become you [...]

mai 2011

A deliciously irreversible evening

By |mai 30th, 2011|Categories: Textes|

Amid talk among friends at a dinner party in the delicious garden last night, someone asked the question: Is an "awakening" experience irreversible? Everyone seemed to have something to say about it, whether a question, [...]

Tree of life

By |mai 28th, 2011|Categories: Textes|

Saturday afternoon at the movies can change your mind... if you see Terence Malick's new film, "The Tree of Life." It's just things as they are, start to finish, or finish to start, the "beginning" [...]

Back again, night (slow and late)

By |mai 26th, 2011|Categories: Textes|

Almost feels like I never left. I felt so much "here" wherever I was. And yet... New York is a big, hard, tall city, without round edges or cushions, constantly busy and in motion. It [...]

Velvet, violet, here, there, everywhere

By |mai 13th, 2011|Categories: Textes|

Moonlight on the canal as we left sitting tonight. Lovely, easy, quiet evening in spring. Dark, yet not dark, almost a velvety violet. Meanwhile... Heading off to America tomorrow, leaving the "old" continent behind for [...]

Including the killing of a killer

By |mai 3rd, 2011|Categories: Textes|

Discovering the killing of Osama Bin Laden this morning gave rise to a mix of emotions. Because from an "awakened" perspective of the oneness of all life, it is certainly a more complex event than [...]

Enseignements en français

By |mai 1st, 2011|Categories: La pratique Zen|

Enseignements donnés à Paris par Amy Hollowell Sensei.   Quitter les sentiers battus - Vendredi 28 Janvier 2011   Incarner l'évidence - Vendredi 4 Février 2011   Porter témoignage - Vendredi 25 Février 2011   [...]

avril 2011

Being with the pomp

By |avril 30th, 2011|Categories: Textes|

Yesterday in the newsroom where I work, much attention was focused for a few hours at midday on the royal wedding in London. I followed along with my colleagues, watching on a live stream on [...]

In Portugal: A dance of the heart

By |avril 27th, 2011|Categories: Textes|

Returned from travels to Portugal, and find myself here at my desk again, letting words emerge. The experience over three days of sitting all together was like this cool, windy afternoon today, sun and shadow [...]

Retreat

By |avril 21st, 2011|Categories: Textes|

Off to Portugal this morning for retreat. We will celebrate a ceremony Monday around noon Portugal time (GMT) for several people receiving the precepts (jukai). All welcome to sit with us, wherever you are at [...]

Stones just as they are

By |avril 20th, 2011|Categories: Textes|

Feels like summer here these days, me between trips and the temperatures high and the sky blue blue blue. Only the calender doesn't fit in the picture. And what picture might that be? The picture [...]

Méditation à Paris/weekly meditation in Paris

By |avril 20th, 2011|Categories: La pratique Zen|

Les lundis soirs, 20h-22h méditation et entretiens (interviews) avec Amy Sensei 4 Passage Courtois 75011 Paris (porte gauche, interphone 'maison', dernière étage) Tél. 06 10 87 82 19 (Joa) Les vendredis soirs, 19h45-21h15 méditation et [...]

No sitting

By |avril 19th, 2011|Categories: La pratique Zen|

A note for those in Paris: Il n'y aura pas de méditation à Paris le lundi 25 avril. Tout recommencera le vendredi 29 avril et le lundi 2 mai.

Temporary indeed

By |avril 14th, 2011|Categories: Textes|

A direct experience of these most temporal words: The whole thing disappeared for two days! Or did it? As with the nature of all things, we could not "see" "it," but "it" was/is there all [...]

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