The great faith
Most human beings get lost in the sterile thoughts of the mind, imagining a spirituality based on morality, discipline and achievements of all kinds, firmly convinced that this is "walking the great Way of the Patriarchs of the past". However, their Heart is not pure enough to reach the great Reality and liberation from all suffering. For it is through the Heart that one reaches the Heart and not through exercises or mental thought.
All these new meditations that are attracting so many people are merely ephemeral practices that only add confusion to illusions that are already well entrenched.
The Great Way does not depend on anything human. It does not depend on kindness, concentration, morality or merit, and especially not on a meditation technique.
You don't just sit down. You have to sit with faith in the Spirit. If this faith is absent, the Heart cannot be grasped.
In the past, great warriors died with faith. In reality, they did not die because the Heart is not of this world.
As long as we do not reach the Heart, we remain an ordinary being subject to the vagaries of purely human ideas and convictions. You are then at the mercy of those who have learned to chain others down, the better to possess them and take their money. The world is full of impostors with pretty faces and clever, brilliant, logical words who take on humble, affable, smiling attitudes.
Today's reason, philosophy, wellness techniques and perfect meditations have got the better of those who walk alongside their Heart without ever knowing it.
People just feed their selfishness without even realising it.
We protect ourselves, we economise, we cowardly hide our fears to better appear liberated, wise and tranquil in the eyes of others. But no one can escape the Eye of the Heart.
We can always continue to lie to ourselves and to others, but the time will come when we will inevitably have to face up to ourselves. Lamentations, regrets and tears will then be of no use.
If the Heart is burdened with all the human vanities that we ourselves have created, heaven and earth will remain forever separated.
Penetrating the Heart of the Way does not depend on us, but on the extraordinary faith that drives us.
And this faith depends on the great determination and desire to grasp the Heart.
Nature and falsity
The Heart is complete in itself. All qualities are within it. They transcend the false human qualities stemming from the imaginary character and influenced by other imaginary characters.
Good and evil are false notions, because what is good for one is bad for the other.
In the non-duality of the Heart, these notions have no place.
Good and evil only exist when the Heart is absent.
The beautiful, the ugly, the just and the unjust are discriminatory notions and a source of suffering.
Penetrating the Heart may not be painless, but if we don't do it, we'll die forever. It's like an urgent life-saving operation: if we refuse it out of fear, then we'll die.
People think they are eternal, but only the Heart is eternal. Anything other than the Heart, no matter how extraordinary, is perishable and therefore lamentable.
The Supreme Lord, or the Heart, is beyond human aspects. And even if He encompasses all human aspects, He is not that.
People think that they exist by themselves and they ignore the "Supreme". They turn to him when things suddenly go wrong or when they lose something. There is nothing more false or misleading than this attitude.
The world is full of arrogance and vanity.
People run towards the darkness in the belief that they are heading towards the light. Their little brains have taken the place of the Supreme or God and they think they are heading in the right direction.
In reality, there is no direction to follow. The direction is the Heart itself. Only the Heart in the Heart and through the Heart.
For over 50 years, more than 1,200 disciples have left their cushion of Awakening to chase after shapes and colours, ideas, dreams and certainties. There will never be enough tears in all the sky to mourn them.
There are very few clear-sighted adults on this earth. They are all children moulded by a corrupt and blind society. An individualistic society with no real education and no respect for others. A society that rejects what is greater than itself and wants to rule the ignorant through ignorance.
Who will dare, like the golden eagle, to stand up above the precipice and emerge from the dreams and illusions of this transitory world?
The Heart in ruins
You don't just use your bottom to defecate or sit on a kapok cushion.
It is from behind that faith is born and Awakening manifests itself.
Because for it to manifest itself, you have to be deeply rooted in the bowels of the earth and the heights of the abyss.
Sitting means taking root and producing fruit without producing branches or leaves.
You have distanced yourselves from nature, from the spirit of trees, birds and animals. You have turned your back on the spirit of wind, water, fire and air. You have hardened your hearts with too many words and thoughts.
Now your own Nature is corrupted.
You continue to sit between concrete walls and create a whole artificial universe coloured by spirituality and false awakenings.
In the past, trees spoke to men and men saw God in everything.
Now all you do is imagine God without ever feeling His Presence.
Even in the presence of an elder (Master), you don't take advantage of the fruits of his Heart to reach yours.
The great Mystery is at your door and you open the window.
The water flows and all you see is water.
The spirit of nature has always taught us what we do not know, but we use nature only to satisfy our incessant desires.
So what's the point of talking about the great Mystery to those who see the world only through the graveyard of their past knowledge?
Men accumulate material and spiritual wealth while their hearts are in ruins.
May he one day.....
The look of a future already here.
Men today are lukewarm. They don't see things through to the end. They do everything in a hurry, looking for immediate results.
All they do is take for themselves. Even if it's to feed their children, it's always for themselves.
They are proud of their good deeds and of what they claim to be or not to be.
When we enter the Way, we enter with all beings. We practise and sit with all beings. You do not limit the Way to yourself.
Therefore, you must make the supreme effort to practise with others for future generations and not pass on your mediocrity to them.
An elder once said: future generations are watching you!
Why do you turn a deaf ear to the calls of others?
Why do you remain isolated in your mental cell and dissatisfied?
Men live in constant fear, and those who claim not to be afraid are even more fearful than the others.
Human beings want to make the universe like themselves.
They are trying to destroy everything that lives, to replace life with death, reality with illusion and mystery with knowledge.
They destroy everything they touch, whether by thought, word or body.
They destroy speech through cowardice, thought through excessive pride, the body through excessive non-presence.
They destroy the three bodies by pretending to live "normally" and by pretending to know what they are doing.
What a pity this humanity wallows in ignorance!
Some people claim to be able to follow a Zen master. What nonsense when your heart and eyes are blind! Because you don't see! You only see what you want to see. You interpret instead of penetrating his Heart.
The beggars of the Way
Most disciples go to their dojo or retreat just like a customer goes to the shop. You take what you need and leave. And if you're not satisfied, you look elsewhere or stop coming.
Isn't that what the ego does? The ego doesn't want to submit to what produced it. What it wants is to use its creator for its own personal desires.
The ego of beings and of the world is oversized. It's the same ego that exterminated the native Americans, the Jewish people, the Tibetans... causing countless wars and suffering.
Don't think you're any different from these authors.
Your ego is constantly at war with yourself and others, even if you're not aware of it.
You think you're pure, innocent, kind, generous and educated. But in reality, your Heart is drowned by the lies of false spirituality and ridiculous certainties.
A being who is not Awakened to his Heart is not reliable. He is not worthy of trust or respect. He is just a stupid puppet who waves his hands and feet just to make dust.
In reality, you always reap what you sow. You are responsible for what you are.
I have no reason to cater to your nonsense or to reassure you.
My role is to let my Heart express itself as it is. I don't care what you think. They will never be anything but poor, rootless thoughts.
My words are sincere and devoid of anger and reproach.
It's just my Heart speaking to your Heart buried under tons of rubble and debris, the rubble of your ignorance.
Man is simply a beggar who ignores himself and looks at the world from his beggar's point of view.
The hole forever
The hair symbolises what has appeared and what will disappear.
The shaved head symbolises non-birth.
Non-birth is what we have to achieve.
But there are bald people who, not only have they not reached their Heart, but who talk about not being born, giving rise to all kinds of nonsense and unverified ideas, or who simply ape the Masters of yesteryear.
At that precise moment, their words are right, but their hearts are empty and like a barren desert.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't follow the Way of the Ancients because I prefer to renew myself with every step I take.
The earth doesn't carry me, I carry it with the tip of my Heart.
Heaven is not above and earth below.
In the night, the spirit of the golden firefly guides my steps, for I am blind from birth.
The golden firefly is everywhere, and all beings have the Luminous Heart.
What's the point of forcing yourself to practice the impractical and the elusive when your mind is frozen?
The lack of innocence and the amount of naivety with which beings are endowed make them turn in the infernal and repetitive circle of samsara.
You look at nature but you don't see how nature looks at you.
You give names to everything and you don't see the Whole.
You talk about everything but nothing speaks to you.
You taste everything, but the Heart is on the sidelines.
You trample through your fruitless days without even realising that you're walking.
You give so much importance to what you do, say and think that you ignore even your own breath.
You maintain this body through sport and dieting, squandering your energy and money on pointless things only to end up in a hole forever.
Because death necessarily exists for those who are not eternal.
We cling to our bodies and minds as if we were eternal and, at the same time, we are afraid of dying as if we were not.
What a stupid way to think and live!
Man is far from being a thinking reed, because he, the reed, thinks the whole universe. So take the seed and be born again.