Here ends our spiritual quest
The
spiritual quest, as it is experienced nowadays, has largely contributed to
escape its true purpose. This
eccentric endeavor has curiously succeeded in bypassing the true encounter with
one’s self which is the original springboard for any
accomplishment.
Spiritual
ambition stifles the simplicity of being, the genuine call at the root of all
our seeking. By identifying with the spiritual seeker, we have simply
adopted a more sophisticated mask. We
are called upon to remove our masks. We are invited to a direct encounter,
beyond the tensions of the spiritual ego, its dogma and expectations.
Yet,
the seeker is terrorized by such a bare prospect, and is
willing to defend its position.
I
point to the possibility of a fruitful encounter at the very place where our
flight begins. This means that our first task is to locate the primal fear on which the ego is built,
a fear born from
a brutal interpretation at a moment of personal existence which makes us say
that the world is a hostile place, that our neighbor is potentially dangerous
and that we are alone.
And
yet, it is this fear which needs to be explored, for it lies to us about our
true nature. We can no longer sleep in the niche of our pious, intelligent and
sterilized thoughts.