Free introduction!

Free introduction!

For anyone and everyone interested in a brief introduction to this practice that we call Zen, I'll be at the Red Earth Centre's open house next weekend. It's free and, as always with the Wild Flower Sangha, anything is possible! PORTES OUVERTES RED EARTH CENTRE samedi 9 octobre 2010 cours et présentations gratuits de 13H [...]

Par |2015-10-12T16:19:09+01:00octobre 2nd, 2010|Textes|1 Commentaire

Salon Zen

Wild Flower Zen Sangha will be present for five days at the Salon Zen in Paris, from Thursday (Sept. 30) through Monday (Oct. 4). Find us at stand N3, along with Dana Sangha and Michel Dubois's Way of the Heart Sangha. In addition, I'll be giving a talk there ("Le voyage Zen au coeur de [...]

Par |2015-10-12T16:19:53+01:00septembre 26th, 2010|Textes|1 Commentaire

Sick in a free-fall

Out of nowhere, I've been hit with a bad head cold. Or so I think it "comes" from nowhere! What a funny notion! Nonetheless, it's here. And it's such a beautiful Indian summer in Paris! My nose is running, my eyes are red. I sneeze and sneeze and sneeze. Nothing extraordinary, the usual symptoms. Yet [...]

Par |2015-10-02T11:41:47+01:00septembre 22nd, 2010|Textes|2 Commentaires

Part of the dance

Brilliant morning splashed in light. Everything above is searing blue and breathless. Below, a buoyant allure floats throughout, across and around, touching inside and out, a light breeze bearing a promise of warmth to accompany the approach of noon. So many words could fit here. I sprawl among them, welcome them, bask in them. I [...]

Par |2015-10-02T11:43:01+01:00septembre 19th, 2010|Textes|0 commentaire

Can’t ignore it

Sometimes life in France under an outrageous government is so strange. Can't think of what other adjective could describe the bizarre acts of the so-called leaders here: people being deported because of their race, immigrants stripped of French nationality for certain crimes, government ministers in cahoots with the rich and powerful, government controlling more and [...]

Par |2015-10-02T11:43:52+01:00septembre 15th, 2010|Textes|2 Commentaires

Everything says it

We came out after sitting this evening into a balmy Paris night, like Indian summer, someone said. The sidewalks were crowded and the café terraces, too, and the canal glistened. I had just talked about saying what couldn't be said. And then we came out and everything was saying it, immensely.

Par |2015-10-02T11:44:41+01:00septembre 10th, 2010|Textes|0 commentaire

There is no map

A long, late summer afternoon is cause for easy pleasure with whatever arises today, whether it be errands, correspondence, a lengthy phone conversation, a backache. Wind runs through the fading foliage unevenly and the sun makes its slow descent. Like us all. Among the prime concerns in the French media for this "rentrée" is a [...]

Par |2017-04-04T06:58:19+01:00septembre 4th, 2010|Textes|0 commentaire

When the tooth had to go

Had a tooth pulled today. Planned for a month and a half, it was one of those back-to-the-wall situations: Any other option would have only led to more trouble. The tooth had to go. And so it did. The dentist did his job like a pro, I did mine like an amateur, with a mix [...]

Par |2015-10-02T11:46:37+01:00septembre 3rd, 2010|Textes|0 commentaire

Immensity again

Things are quiet, the evening cool. It's a "new" month. Time to delve back in to this flow of words, set forth day by day. Again. I've been so many places these weeks, on two continents, under rain and shine, in the pounding heart of cities and the soft rustle of dark woods, life and [...]

Par |2015-10-02T11:47:25+01:00septembre 1st, 2010|Textes|0 commentaire

Gushing forth

Here, checking in again after several weeks of travels abroad, "vacating" away from usual connections, ideas, functions, positions. Here, preparing another departure, another week of "retreating," the last of the summer. One day and another day and another day and another, things as they are keep gushing forth. The breakfast table is filled with marvels, [...]

Par |2017-04-04T06:58:19+01:00août 19th, 2010|Textes|3 Commentaires
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