Thierry
For
some years now, Thierry has been addressing spiritual seekers and inviting
them to take part in an extensive and intimate exchange about the driving
forces behind their quest, in an encounter with the self where the ground has
been cleared of the spiritual ego’s ponderous judgment and eccentric hopes.
Faced with the eternal questions posed by the quest, Thierry provides incisive, clear-cut replies to create inroads into the seeker’s closed and painful world, beckoning him or her to quit the race rather than continue to shift gears.
These dialogues are an invitation to achieve peace, simplification and an awakening to what is already intimately present within us but distorted by beliefs and expectations.
(...) After 15 years of a committed spiritual
quest, regular meditation sessions and training courses, I experienced a
surprising and salutary collapse. I "woke up" quite literally by
falling out of bed. Although the fall didn’t immediately reveal its secret,
what I can say today is that I straightaway sensed what it contained. The
thousands of hours spent in fervent meditation, my calls never to wander from
the straight and narrow, the insistent hope of "someone other than
me" and all the artful tricks of the quest vanished into thin air in the
batting of an eyelid and were consumed, leaving but ashes and silence. While
it seemed at the time that I had lost everything, down to the very meaning of
life, I had in fact suddenly gained the freedom to be what I am. It was from
this moment of being brutally stripped that the spiritual awakening, which I
had previously thought to be made up of pathetic masks, unveiled itself in all
its pure splendor. The tension which had been my constant road companion gave
way to a vibrant open space from which emerged a book-free, mind-free "knowledge"
of my genuine nature and, as a result, an awareness of how the infernal dance
of our painful strategies continues, despite ourselves, to keep us remote from
what we are. The desire to testify came naturally, unconfined by reassuring
boundaries or traditional landmarks. This is what I am doing daily now,
because I am not driven by any impulse other than that of sharing the miracle
of simply being alive. Istenqs[1]
invites all seekers and those who have stopped seeking, from wherever they
come and in whatever circles they may find themselves, Non-Duality or New Age,
to share the Joy of Surrender on the shore of naked souls.
[1]
Istenqs is the acronym in French for "Ici
Se Termine Enfin Notre Quête Spirituelle" – Here ends our
spiritual quest at last.