( Thanks to Hilary Mac Rae my zen friend from New-Zealand for the translation 🙂 ) State of collapse, from the Buddhist point of view. Unless you have lived on a desert island for the last 10 years, the news about the world isn’t brilliant. Theorists of ‘the collapse’ predict… Read More »Buddhism and collapse – some avenues of relection before the end of the world…
I have put together a Zen calendar for 2019 for the Swiss magazine L’Illustré: one piece each month to accompany your year, to guide you along spiritual pathways for daily life. The one for March is particularly close to my heart < Buy less, live more> as a way of… Read More »Zen Chronicle
The Zen calendar piece for February. < Anti Depressant in the heart of winter > Written with the journalist Francois Busson from the Swiss magazine L’Illustre. The connection between the body and the mind no longer needs to be proved. They work together like yin and yang, or Simon and… Read More »The Zen calendar < Anti Depressant in the heart of winter >
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by the founder of the site www.excellencereporter.com to record a video. The theme immediately challenged me “What is the meaning of life? I let you discover the text and the video below… Not much to understand or analyze: just live, to the heart… Read More »What is the meaning of life – a zen perspective by Kankyo – video
The art of Zen meetings. At the Buddhist monastery, Thursday mornings are for meetings. Straight after breakfast the residents settle down around the impressive wooden table. Then one of the monks announces the order of the day …. And everyone holds their breath before getting stuck in. Meetings – plunging… Read More »Buddhist at work, the art of zen meetings
( Translated from french : Hilary Mac Rae) LIFE IN PINK Let’s be honest, ‘Life in pink’ was just a heading to grab readers. So now you are here, poring over these few lines, what are they about? What’s the subject? Nothing short of explaining – in fewer than 800… Read More »Life in pink… in search of counsciousness
Three pieces of advice for taming silence Here’s my invitation to take a looooong breath and relax before reading the following lines……. This little piece has been written listening to the purring of Lala ( a zen cat, if there is such a thing) so I invite you to take… Read More »Three pieces of advice for taming silence
Remind yourself that vacation is within reach, even as you stretch your budget for back to school supplies. But before tossing the baby out with the bath water, please grant me the benefit of the doubt — at least until the end of this article — and let me offer… Read More »The Buddhist Recipe to Prolong the Holidays in Your Head
