It is when we remain without program and when we no more entertain opinions about what we perceive and what we do that an uncompromising joy begins to really set the tone : how we are starts to reflect what we are. The phenomenal existence is then only what it has always been in fact : an actualization of the possibilities of joy. The irruption of light cannot be the fruit of a deliberate strategy, which would only be another form of burden, pretension and agitation in order to perpetuate what we are not. Any will to become anything, including someone free, is only adding refinements of misery in our life. Nothing to attain, nothing to become, no obstacle to surmount, only occasions of beauty. No ideal to pursue, no behavior to adopt, no technique to practice, no leader to imitate, no organization to join in order to become « awakened » or « realized ». God save us from that spiritual poverty ! What path can lead us from our home to our home ? What technique can bring us to astonishment ? Only an honest and humble gaze can save ourselves from the stupidity and the suffering we inflict to ourselves. Nothing is the opposite of profound joy and tranquility : from that evidence, none of the changes of life is problematic. In that opening, the energies that used to be wasted are liberated: we then live with passion, but without calculations and their worries. Jean Bouchart d'Orval can be met in the context of talks, seminars or individual sessions, in North America and in Europe. These meetings are not meant to convince anyone nor to prove anything ; they only are a way to live with the window open. |
