A
moment of
salutary wavering
Sometimes
people are surprised that, in all appearances, I am so easy-going on the
"New Age" or that what I say is not confined to expressing the
rigorous principles and dogma of non-duality.
I
can see that, when listening to what I say or reading what I write, some
seekers experience a moment of wavering and slip ‘n slide a little in their
reference system, in which case they look around for arguments to justify
their rejection or, where the friendliest are concerned, to couple me to their
reassuring wagon train.
Everything’s
fine. An insidious confinement in luminous attire has been unearthed. I’m not
responsible for this, but I’m happy to be the instrument which brings it
about. This moment of wavering is salutary because the "seeker of beaten
tracks" has crystallized his knowledge to make it the earth which lines
his path. He’s afraid of the void. And this instrument when everything is
freeze-framed can potentially alert him to his reassuring prison. At the very
moment he’s slipping ‘n sliding, a really non-dual space reveals itself
outside his sophisticated thoughts, outside his safeguards staked around his
terror of being.
Someone
said to me the other day that I must correct this attitude and certain texts
or links on my site which seemed to "perpetuate a confusion", and
that I should "keep my distance" from certain principles which I was
apparently not denouncing. But what I say cannot be the source of any
confusion whatsoever that doesn’t already exist in the person I’m speaking
to or writing for, just as I have no intention of "keeping my
distance" from anything whatsoever.
I
invite everyone, at the heart of their turmoil, rejection or confusion, to
discover that they are more likely to be in contact with a primal fear that
they had dressed up in traditional clothing. It’s true that I can’t align
myself to their demand, for I’m not expressing myself to comfort seekers in
their certainties or their security systems. But I can most certainly call out
to them if they try to flee from this moment of revelation.
A
"non-duality" which is afraid of everything and nothing, which I can
sometimes discern in the eyes of those I’m talking to, more so than in their
words, would be a mascarade. A cerebral wisdom that nourishes suspicion,
intellectualization and fear is not worth a look, even less a book or a
conversation.
The
ploys of the spiritual ego are eternal. Those who have taken over non-duality
have not invented them.
There
is much more to let go of than to hold on to and the living space into which
you are invited will indicate better than these words to what extent certain
things are not really worth lingering over for any longer than it takes to
make this clear...