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The spiritual quest
The parent's task (article in the magazine « Soleil Levant » in
September 2000)
Warrior of the present (article in the magazine « 3e millénaire » in
september 2000)
Power and responsibility (article in the magazine « Soleil Levant » in
march 2001)
In the very principle of the quest are the ideas of
separation and lack. To believe in the quest is not to see the real face to
face. Thus, what is the solution for the quest not to be an escape or a refuge ?
All wise beings strive to say : liberty is in the heart of the Here and Now.
Then why am I not living this liberty ? What is the origin of all the conflicts
holding me back ? How this absolute reference of the Here and Now can fulfill my
quest ?
For each human being, the Me or the I is the unique reference. If someone asks
you " is that you ? " on the street, you'll surely answer " of course, it's me !
". The answer is immediate. You are nor another one, neither two.
Though, when you're trying to escape from yourself and you feel like a victim of
the life, the circumstances or the others, you ARE trying to be someone else.
These is : I, what I am and I, what I'd like to be. That make two "I".
Human doesn't create anything, he only rediscover the laws of the nature that
always existed. He reinvents a relation between him and what is. Each discovery
relates him back to a greater amazement : "I exist and am part of that whole ".
Our liberty holds simply in accomplishing this concrete act, living symbol of
our relation. In this conscious let-go of the quest, I then become whom is
wanted, " the cosmic traveler from here to here " within who no distance between
the father and the son exists.
This let-go is a spontaneous, natural impetus like a child opening his arms to
his father's invitation.
He is acceptation, a say-yes, where life is welcoming itself. He is the
acceptation of feeling worthy of being loved and to answer YES to the
intelligence of the newborn, spiritual essence of a newborn world.
I don't know nothing, and that makes laugh a lot my child's heart. I am this
infinite silence that can't be enclosed by no truth. My word is without memory,
sung and written by the Eternal. " I am " is the living sign, the sacred writing,
read by people with a pure heart.
Being a parent is the oldest but the most mysterious job of
all. A child is born and the miracle of creation is renewed. The parents are the
matrix in which life embodies to make a personal existence to be born.
Innocent transmitters and amazed witnesses of this mystery at once, birth is
given to our parent's profession at the same time that it is given to this
perfect but dependant being. Besides, we're not always prepared to that new
responsibility having for only reference our own parents.
Thus, how can we help our children to integrate the reality of life ?
How can we teach them to grow ? How can we pass on our experience purified from
our own conditionings and unconscious mechanisms, when they learn everything by
imitation and mimicry ? How can we do it if we only can pass on what we ARE ?
At birth, all the children are an open entirety. They are life testing itself
and the world. Thus, the physical, emotional and psychological environment is
slowly impregnating them by the mean of the parents and family. They are very
vulnerable and sensitive to the floating emotions, to what is left unsaid and to
the unconscious schemes going on around them.
Like sponges, they will absorb fears and prejudices of their parents. This is
how they will build their truth about other's beliefs and experiences instead of
cultivating their interior self-referral. If we don't teach a child to make
things on his own, we restrain his future freedom and creativity. He will be
kept locked up in his fears, prejudices and a priori In addition, during
adolescence he will be unable to cut the umbilical cord tying him up to his
family. He will feel abandoned and will loose self-confidence.
But the hard question is : how can I teach him to cultivate this auto-referral
when I did not learn it, when I'm used since my childhood to shut down my
feelings, to be untrue, to be caring only for the future, to judge by
appearances, to behave according to the sacrosanct "That's not right", "you're a
bad boy (girl)"
To be "parents of the present" is to be mastering the art of the peace, to be
lucidly compassionate to be able to understand and pardon with the heart. Once
installed in this unity, this awareness and this impeccability, we do not allow
conflicts to take place, preventing them. We make use of our universal
intelligence to nurture and heal the relationship with our children, spouse and
family.
What is an accomplished parent ? That's a dad, a mom transmitting the
intelligence of the creation, this place of amazement of being and of delicacy
of heart.
The warrior of the
present's weapon is a blade that heals separation. It operates a truthful
spiritual healing, because it necessitate that the warrior stands firmly in
himself, stands also in all laws of nature, stands in his faultlessness, his
dexterity : he stays in « I am » ; he is even before thinking, before judging,
before separating himself from the rest.
Don't forget that the Mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to
experiment.
Nobody have ever solved anything, and nobody won't find anything.
The only way to get « mysterized » is to be alive in the heart of the mystery,
without pertinence on God or on oneself.
The only existence of the world lies in the here-and-now. It's nor in history,
neither in time, it's in gathering here-and-now that we glorify time and
eternity. Eternity has to be nourished by « Here ».
Thus, each ray is linked to the Sun. Let's see : the sunray doesn't fancies as
being a separated ray, isolated, acting all by himself. It knows very well it's
always linked to the sun. By himself, the sunray isn't creating anything, it's
the messenger of the sun. It doesn't fancies himself as the sun either, it's its
ray. There's nothing more glorious than rediscovering what's « Me », and our
responsibility lies in recognizing in the act : « I am ».We don't have the
responsibility to bear the whole world. Did WE create it ? Did WE create
mountains, sky and oceans ?
Don't make a belief out of responsibility. The only thing that falls to us is to
be « I am », small, tiny, infinitely tiny.
In becoming this sunray, by only recognizing that « I am », you nourish all the
totality of life.
If you do think it or not, if you understand it or not, if you discuss it or
not, life is always living in its own outpouring, the outpouring of the present
instant.
You let yourself being caressed by the wind, merely now, in the moment. Your
heart is beating, merely for this moment. Your are breathing, only and merely,
and it's always working like that.
Any extrapolation is mental gargling. Wonders are taking place everyday, in this
«instantliness», for our survival, only now, for us to be able to think, only
now, for us to be, now, for us to find freedom, now, for us to recognize
ourselves only now.
I am the gift of life.
Do you know, in each and every second, your cells, your bones, your hair are
renewing ? Do you know how you're thinking ? Then let go of it ! Stay in that
state of : « I don't know », a living « I don't know » that makes you taste the
magic to see and listen.
(David invites J. to share an experience:)
J. : « This morning when I woke up, I understood what I'm hearing for a year now
: With the awaking we become aware of the body in a feeling of well-being. And
this morning, I realized that just before my body awakes, I Was. I could feel my
body, there was light, the sound of the alarm clock, but how can I say ? Before
everything, I was that. What I understood is that I am, even before knowing I
have a body. I am before I can hear this cicada, before the coming of the
thoughts that judge.
David : Good, then, keep on cultivating this relation between yourself and you.
You see, J. tells us about the sap : « I am before awaking, before thinking,
before light, before being in history, space and time. » That's something very
important; you'll have to make this happen again, otherwise, you will forget
about it and start again in your history. This gesture of conscience is due to a
sane spirituality. There resides the « Warrior of the present's » art.
The warrior of the present doesn't need his weapon to destroy his enemies, his
victim's thoughts, because if he does so, he's dead already : he made the others,
the enemies exist.
His weapon is curing separation. It operates a truthful spiritual healing,
because it necessitate that the warrior stands firmly in himself, stands also in
all laws of nature, stands in his faultlessness, his dexterity : he stays in « I
am », he doesn't quit the sap ; he is even before thinking, before judging
himself, before separating himself from the rest.
It's an act of vigilance and courage that lies in the heart of the real. In
everyday life, into himself, the warrior of the present is invincible. But, if
he makes an act of disregard, he's lost. Because that way he would structure an
enemy outside of him, he'd create somebody to fight and kill. Let's feel this
well. Firmly standing in soi-sève (him-sap; French pun referring to : himself),
he can be every particularity of the sap. « I » can include the multitude in the
singular, « I » can be on the plural
In «me» is us.
The man with a pure heart, standing in a treasure, standing in life's song, if
he hears singing every particle of the creation, from the infinitely small to
the infinitely big, it's because, in himself, he's singing « me ».
The « me » he's singing belongs to the universal language, the one before
Babel's Tour, when human tongues aren't invented yet and when the words aren't
existing to separate things. This « me » is a word to designate the pre-verbal
language within which everything is linked, non-separated, existing in the heart
of him.
When we're honouring the «Me», when we hear in tune the «Me», we can hear in
ourselves all the laws of nature, and, becoming all these laws of nature, all
the symbols enclosed in Shiva's Brahma's and Vishnu's names are then embodied.
In India, each divinity is represented by attributes; it's a symbolic manner to
bear witness of a particular quality of existence lying in the very heart of the
laws of nature. When a man stands in this truth, in this cosmic song, in this
universality, he becomes and honours the laws of nature, these living divinities.
Then, there's no more need for exterior symbols to represent them. He is that
living divinity, merely, humbly, in «Me».
Into that particular quality of unity, the Awakening comes at the end to sweep
everything away to leave only the transparency of the real. This, you have to
recognize it, simply, and stand in the certitude that you are already this
quality. You are the emanation of this «Me-Sap», you are the sap manifesting
through all the aspects of the creation.
The words of a knowing man are to understand;
the words of an unknowing man are to breath.
The words of a knowing man explains why and how and the wind;
the words of an unknowing man are the lightness of the wind.
The words of an unknowing man are playing, flying, they are the wind.
« Present in the amazement, in the heart of every thought, why am I still so
much amazed ?
Every word is a note, a colour, a simple poetry. Hidden in every word are living
diamonds, gold and geometry. The art of living is presence in «I am», the art of
God is presence, it's very tiny. » (Rêve d'éveil, page 163)
Everything that I say nothing, the essential is never expressed.
The amazement is getting amazed, amazed, amazed...
Human being has only one fundamental power, to be amazed of existing and living;
only one responsibility, to keep living this amazement, source of humility, of
curiosity, in relation with other humans and the nature. It's in that sparkle of
«self-recognition», it this amazement of being alive that this man standing in
the heart of the laws of nature is loyal and self-referring. He is fully
participating in life's play.
It's in this lucid «Eureka» (Know yourself and you will know universe and gods)
that is in realizing that he IS, that he is existing, that he possesses a body
and that he thinks, only then could he feel the «only true miracle» of his own
presence. He is created and maintained in life from an instant to another and
he's travelling in the infinite aboard the spaceship called Earth. This force
itself is keeping him alive. This gift, this power, whom gave them to him ? Whom
is making the earth to rotate ? Whom is bearing its weight ? Where are the
engines and the gas ? What is this innate intelligence creating and perpetuating
everything in the life-death cycle ?
The power and responsibility of a human is to actively be amazed, to be lively,
to keep his child soul's freshness and to keep on working to become a conscious
adult, responsible of the quality of his relation toward all events and other
persons, who are mirrors revealing what he is.
We're all living in a society, but what is «Society» ? It's an abstraction, a
concept. Only the human individually exists, human is the base unit of society.
It's qualities are the natural extension of human's qualities, not the opposite.
All the conflicts on social, political and economical levels can only be sorted
out on the individual level.
Our responsibility is to get ourselves transformed, to become true adults,
adults meaning responsible of our acts for ourselves and for others too.
It is our duty to «conscientize» the relationship with the other to make it more
fluid and stop generating conflicts. To repeat the same mistakes, to press
always on the same reaction buttons hoping to get new results is a mistake in
the strategy sometime coming close to «ordinary craziness».
The irresponsible human is motivated by a personal ambition and a seek of power
as well on social, ideological and esoteric levels.
This deteriorated spiritual mixtures are some untransformed tries nourishing the
dominating-dominated, master-and-slave logic, power of man on man.
Our and other's illusion of being jailed into reactions make us seize pains and
fears as the only reality. We are then deprived from Eden's garden, life source
that is constantly proposing solutions to our victim's resistances. Repeated
fails and oppositions are so much difficulties deprivating us from the Great
Whole's intelligence working to the core of evolution.
The human responsibility is to let go, at a certain time, his conditionings of
victim, his imaginary fears, to act and discover in action, an unexpected ally,
the courage, source of accomplishment and of self-confidence.
The human recognizing the quality of his freedom and responsibility must then
embody it totally and to share it's witness in his humanity through his actions
: he IS, he learns, he understands, he acts. He's fulfills his own destiny, his
odyssey, in the natural fun of finding solution to every day's problem.
He gets free from his hindrances, « letting freedom being free ».
The transparent quality of his autonomy in relationship becomes an ethic, an
opening and an art of living in a state of lucidity without interferences.
It's the highest form of human intelligence.
When a human becomes a responsible adult, an aspiration, a desire of liberty
glooms and liven up. It's the dawn of the spiritual quest. A journey to
integrity and obligation to faultlessness begins. Human then becomes the pointer
of the courage and the intelligence of the process of liberty becoming flesh.
There, an undreamed confidence and patience will take place in the core of this
innate intelligence. The strength of this dazzling illumination will overcome
all mountains of believes and will reveal to whom is seeking the path, the
secret of the ark of the covenant and the mystic nostalgia of the charming
prince searching for and awaking the sleeping beauty. Here, one must
reinitialize this path coming before birth and after death, genesis of
everything that is, has been and will be, included into the very «here and now».
I hope you understand that it's not only about the «here and now» of the
glorious terrestrial present, but about timeless plenitude.
As the light is chasing automatically the umbra, false desires of illumination
and power will be seen and beheaded in that very moment.
The human realizing his sacred quest and his divine nature is not responsible
alone anymore. He is co-responsible and related universally, and this, in great
lightness.
That doesn't mean he can do whatever he wants with impunity, crowning himself
with spiritual authority. Because laws of nature are living deep inside of him,
they strictly ask for a faultless conscience. As a representing-witness of these
living laws, he then becomes the «vécu», the «real life experience» without any
personal ambition, servant of the growing of the world.
He perfectly accepts the reality as it is, knowing he has no earthly power to
change thing outside of himself.
