Questions and Meditations

It is the identification that keeps us fettered and chained.

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We are bound, we suffer, we desire and we despair – because we are identified. Identified to the instrumental personality, this tiny temporary amalgam which is “me”, this past, this history, these assets and these lacks and wants, this complexity, these possibilities, this journey – and this body = the closer we are to the body and the tighter is the identification. Our most material vital being, our nervous being, is at once a narrow cord of energy and an envelope or sheath which the body itself needs constantly in order to persist in its form and its organism. To recover the integrity of the true consciousness while remaining incarnated, one must sever, dissolve or master this bond = it is thus that the ancient initiatory disciplines always included a central ordeal, the most critical and determining, that of physical death. To return clear-sighted and liberated from this radical experience was the condition to be fulfilled before confronting other dangers, to serve the Truth and to hold the torch of consciousness in this world as in the others.

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Under the action of an invasive terror, an intense desire, an extreme pleasure or an acute pain, the identification grows ever stronger until it becomes exclusive and seems absolute. It is then as if it has become impossible to extract, or to abstract oneself from it. Thus, how could one’s resistance to inflicted suffering be the only measure or indicator of integrity?

An effective transformative action must have already unified each instrumental part to the conscious source.

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