The following books have been published in French, but none has been published in English so far.
(click on the images for book excerpts in English)
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“Although we are working hard at it every day, we will not escape from the joy that shines at the heart of the moment, because it is our very own true nature.” What we are looking for is not a state. It is not something to preserve. It is that which is clearly perceived when one doesn't have anything to preserve, to carry, to protect. There is only now and everything that seems to be other, somewhere else or later is a story entertained by thought, which is bound by its images. There is nothing to prepare, no strategy to think of. What is given to us in our life is not something to be eliminated in order to feel better. To prepare oneself is fear. It is the desire to safeguard something that one could possibly loose tomorrow. If something can be lost tomorrow, then that something is not real and doesn't deserve our worries. That which is real cannot be lost. In order to live free, what technic should be practised? Technics are fear. One puts his faith in a technic, in a practice, but generally to practice a technic it is only a strategy of the ego. The only practice here is a clear life centered around direct feeling, which immediately brings us back in the heart. Au cœur de l'instant, Éditions du Roseau, Montreal, 2002, 208 pages. |
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This series of short texts is an occasion : the occasion to listen freely together to some words from the gospels or from the Old Testament, and to let them reforest the soul and make the heart blossom anew. La Rumeur de Dieu (The Murmur of God) is reflected in these pages. It also comes back as an echo in the world. Because the world is God effulgence. It is God, told in a space-time whose reality is the Unique Moment, which we often call, somewhat absentmindedly the present moment, but which is nothing else than Eternal Life. The one who has ceased pretending to be less than that has stopped sleeping and he will not taste death : he has already stopped tasting it. Faith is not believing in a story that was told to us one day, nor believing in the story we are telling ourselves every day ; it is being so tranquil and confident that we never need anymore to believe in any story. Only a vacant and open can be heart can be flooded with such a light for good. |
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This collection of 195 aphorisms, written down some 2000 years ago, keeps all its vigor, because it beckons to what is real, actual. Remarkably concise, profound and practical, this masterly exposé leads us well beyond words. The Yoga Sutras are the fruits of direct experience, not a pile of speculations and opinions. They describe how the light of our own true nature makes its way in our life. All the positions we defend, through the stories we are telling ourselves, are ultimately untenable in face of reality. Why content ourselves with these lamentable compromises with much less than what we are? All along the irruption of being in our life, as described by Patanjali, an atmosphere of tranquil realism, of serenity and even of joy prevails. Because reality is so beautiful! Presentation, translation and commentary of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. These are 195 aphorisms in Sanskrit and which cannot be ignored by anyone seriously interested in the meaning of his life and by the rise of a never-ending joy. A classic. This book is a new version of La Maturité de la Joie, published in Montreal in 1992 (see that book lower). |
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What Heraclitus has formulated is astonishing. In this new millennium, man needs to hear his whirlpool discourse in all its radicality. Heraclitus has foremost given himself to uncluttered listening rather than trying to build an opinion, and he invites us to move beyond spiritual sluggishness. Heraclitus is one who beckons. He sends man back to his own light rather than inflicting him another system of thinking or a new ideal. In his humility, the one who doesn't pretend anything anymore becomes flooded with a great light. Any assertion has its opposite; but deeply this light doesn't assert anything: it is the perfume of Oneness, the light of the Obscure, "He who is unexplorable and without access" for thought. Héraclite : la lumière de l’Obscur, Éditions du Relié, Avignon, 1997, 240 pages. |
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There is understanding because of what understands us, what "stands under": under persons, thoughts, desires breaths, everything that rises in the surging of existence and its erected forms in spacetime. We all look for truth, joy, love, peace, all kinds of words to describe a reality we intimately feel but we can't yet distinguish clearly. The question is therefore not as much throwing anything out as letting clarity come up to the surface. If that light wasn't already there, we would not look for it with such energy; but because we don't yet distingish it well enough, it seems to be missing. Direct contact with this uncompromising clarity, this is what we can call meditation. Eight talks on reality, with questions, answers and humor: the mystery, the wandering, attention and thought, freedom and destiny, surrender and equanimity, desires and demands, the divine and the human, and the spiritual vision of modern physics. * The title cannot be translated litteraly into English, as "Éveil" means awakening, but it is also the name of the little bookstore where the talks were held. Les Entretiens de l’Éveil, Éditions du Roseau, Montreal, 1996, 176 pages |
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A divine haste surges in the heart of all those for whom the "goal" seems to be in sight. But the one who thus hastes is diligent and doesn't act with precipitation; on the opposite, he moves with a certain delicious slowness. Diligere is, at the origin, "to care". It is also "to love". When we love, we haste with attention: with attention for the Presence. Texts on a meditative and poetical mode, to accompany us in the heart. They bring us to India, Greece, Italy, England and Quebec. But they mainly propose a radical and serene vision of being. Better, they put us there. Tibbit's Hill, The Temple, It's Nothing, The New Deal, The Simple Life, The Essence of Paper, The Light of Brockwood Park, Space, The Bureaucrat-Man, Going up the Ilissos, The Day of the Lord, The Smile of the Buddha, The Physicists. La Diligence divine, Éditions de Mortagne, Montreal, 1995, 190 pages |
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This collection of texts is entirely turned toward being, which is the best kept secret. But this secret is never unveiled through manipulating words weighing many tons. In order to make room for the truth of being, it is sometimes necessary to clean up the forest of ideas and concepts. We can thus reforest the human soul and discover in the new trees the expression of truth of a unique and nurturing sap. Incisive texts throwing light on topics pointing towards our true nature : boredom, truth, music, tolerance, death, violence, stress, thinking, power, love, religion, surrender, the master, spiritual life, etc. Le Secret le mieux gardé, Libre Expression, Montreal, 1993,176 pages. |
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This collection of 195 aphorisms, written down some 2000 years ago, keeps all its vigor, because it beckons to what is real, actual. Remarkably concise, profound and practical, this masterly exposé leads us well beyond words. The Yoga Sutras are the fruits of direct experience, not a pile of speculations and opinions. They describe how the light of our own true nature makes its way in our life. All the positions we defend, through the stories we are telling ourselves, are ultimately untenable in face of reality. Why content ourselves with these lamentable compromises with much less than what we are? All along the irruption of being in our life, as described by Patanjali, an atmosphere of tranquil realism, of serenity and even of joy prevails. Because reality is so beautiful! Presentation, translation and commentary of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. These are 195 aphorisms in Sanskrit and which cannot be ignored by anyone seriously interested in the meaning of his life and by the rise of a never-ending joy. A classic. The commentary often refers to words of Christ. La Maturité de la Joie, Éditions Libre Expression, Montreal, 1992, 320 pages. |
Note : the books La Maturité de la Joie (1992), Le Secret le mieux gardé (1993) and La Diligence divine (1995) are no longer available in bookstores, but copies can still be obtained from the author. The books Vers une Nouvelle Forme d’intelligence (1989) and La Plénitude du vide (1987) are no more available.
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