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8 octobre 2014

Débuter dans la pratique

Nous sommes un ensemble d’agrégats contaminés dans lesquels il n’y a rien de divin. Mais en fait cet ensemble est illusoire, donc au lieu d’imputer son « je » sur cet ensemble impur, on pourrait aussi bien l’imputer sur un ensemble pur. Le christianisme ne va pas aussi loin dans la théorie, mais dans la pratique c’est finalement ce qui se passe. En conservant son regard toujours tourné vers le Christ, on crée un yidam, et ce yidam finit par remplacer notre être ordinaire « c’est le Christ qui vit en moi », par la vertu de « ce qu’on contemple, on le devient ».
En fait il y a et il y aura toujours deux, sinon ce serait narcissique (le Christ s’aimant lui-même serait une notion assez étrange). Mais c’est un deux qui n’est plus séparé. La créature contemplant le Christ ne cesse pas d’être la créature, et en même temps elle devient le Christ par le corps, la parole et l’esprit. Il est donc inutile de nous contempler nous-mêmes, sauf en rapport avec le Christ. Il me semble qu’observer sa colère etc… c’est faire une sorte de retour sur soi, ce qui est interdit par excellence, car on ne se voit pas à travers le Christ. On se voit seul. Je veux dire par là qu’il ne suffit pas de se dire « je suis petit et vilain comparé à Dieu » intellectuellement, pour se voir à travers le Christ. Si tu réfléchis bien, dans une telle vision consistant à s’observer soi-même pour voir sa petitesse, il n’y a que soi.
Il faut donc d’abord tourner son regard vers le Christ, et depuis cette lumière alors on s’apparaît soi-même. Il ne faut pas regarder ce qui n’apparaît pas dans cette lumière. Donc par exemple notre colère est vue à travers la miséricorde, ou la douceur, ou la bonté… Et si on se sent merdeux, c’est uniquement sur la toile de fond de Dieu. A ce moment on arrive à pleurer car on voit qu’on offense Dieu (on a la sensation de sa bonté et de notre misère, les deux à la fois). Sinon ça reste intellectuel. En langage bouddhiste, cette double sensation atteste de ce que les souffles contaminés sont ramenés dans le canal central. Mais ne ressentir que les souffles contaminés n’aide pas.
Il faut donc commencer par se concentrer sur des petits détails de la vie du Christ ou autre pour arriver à tracer un chemin jusqu’au coeur, d’où l’on pourra ensuite contempler nos imperfections. Ce n’est pas toujours clair dans les écrits dans saints où on a parfois l’impression qu’ils ne voient que leur misère, mais il est évident qu’ils la voient depuis l’abîme de la miséricorde ou autre, sinon ça ne leur ferait pas un effet si profond (l’auto-contemplation étant un phénomène très superficiel).
Il y a un ordre des choses à respecter.
Je vois que parfois je m’énerve sur ceci ou cela mais c’est parce que je n’ai pas le pouvoir de faire autrement et ça ne me perturbe pas outre mesure, parce qu’à d’autres moments, les mêmes choses ne m’atteignent pas du tout. Quand on est dans l’amour divin, les choses idiotes ne perturbent plus. Alors au lieu de se lamenter de ce qui nous perturbe quand on n’est pas dans l’amour divin, mieux vaut faire des efforts pour y être de plus en plus, et naturellement, on ne sera plus perturbé. C’est aussi un apprentissage de la concentration qui permet, quand on est perturbé, de concentrer son esprit sur le Christ, ce qui fait oublier tout le reste. C’est progressif. L’Etre a le pouvoir d’effacer le non-être, par contre le non-être n’a aucun pouvoir de se sortir lui-même de la confusion où il est, puisque par définition il est illusoire. Le centre naturel de tout, c’est l’Etre.

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Enseignements de Rudi

Fear
We have the capacity in our minds to create that which we are most afraid of; in the same way that we bury some ignorance like a grain of sand inside the shell of an oyster and build around it until we come up with the end product, which in this case is not a pearl.

God
It is finally this consciousness that allows a human being to feel God as the constant energy that is absorbed by all of the chakras, filling him with sweetness and joy. Not feeling happy is only the result of not being in tune with this force and not having the consciousness to contain it. For whatever reason we fail in holding onto energy, we must look to ourselves. We cannot blame anybody or anything. It is only our lack of capacity to hold that which is given.

Revelations

In all teachings, the temptations that appear during the revelation period are those things we identify with, that take away the energy or content from the experience. It is the courage to put the bottom on the void, so that the incoming energy is not lost during any experience, that is required. This enables a person to grow endlessly, by surrendering content as fast as it manifests itself.

Seekers
It is a remarkable event when somebody presents a situation that exposes their real need. It is rare when even half the truth is given. Usually a situation is distorted beyond recognition. It is as if somebody is saying to me that if I can dig out the real situation, maybe they will allow me to help them. When a situation occasionally is presented in all its nakedness, it is only because the person is defenseless at a particular moment. As soon as they have one stitch to put on their back, they again retreat into themselves, distorting what they said and what they think you said. The ability to hear and see is rare in this world. It only exists in somebody who truly wishes to grow. This has not, unfortunately, been the attitude of most seekers. So few succeed in reaching their goal that it is safe to assume that there are few who honestly pursue a spiritual life, and even then, very few teachers who cater to anything that brings the realism that allows for enlightenment.

Spirituality

Spirituality is not about being where you think you should be. It is not about being where you want to be. Spirituality is about being on the highest point of an ascending energy that keeps growing and growing.
As this energy grows, it completely destroys every level of truth as you live it. This does not mean the truth that has been destroyed was not real. It was real for the level on which you existed before. With students, I am not interested in how long they are with me; I am just interested in one thing: whether or not they are strong enough to break up the horizontal level and continue growing. For myself, I do not want to limit myself by what I was. I do not think, "I did all this work to get to here." That is baloney. That is making a drama of your life and trying to build an image for yourself. The point is to keep growing. It is to have the courage to keep growing, even if it pulls apart the structure of your life. Then it is freeing you. There is nothing wrong with pulling apart the structure. What is wrong is to build yourself into a coffin and then stay there and try to justify it. Either you are working to live on a higher level all the time and to have a rebirth all the time, or you are trying to find justification for staying the way you are.
The whole point of what we do is to destroy matter, which is this horizontal plane we sit on: the earth. It is to translate this physical and material matter into spiritual force. This is our work.

Surrender
You sit down. Inside you, what is going on? You want to be right. "I'm a nice guy, how could this person do this to do me? How could someone take advantage of me in the business world," or "How can somebody not love me? Don't they understand what I did?" Inside you, these muscles close up; they are protecting you. They are protecting your ego, protecting the image you have of yourself. You sit down to take your breath, and you find that something has robbed you of your heart. What robbed you of your heart ? The need to be right. These muscles do not want to open. They would rather you were safe and secure behind the wall than outside the wall.
Surrendering is opening all the muscles. This is the real test of your surrender in a situation. Can you breathe ? Does the throat open to receive the energy ? Are you free to receive this energy and open and see what your condition really is ? If you find out you are constricted in your heart, you have a pain in your back, or you can't get the air down, what does it mean? It means you are closed. What closed you? It does not matter what closed you, you do not have to find the rational reason, you just have to open. You sit and work, and you breathe. I do not have that problem anymore, but I used to sit and take that breath six hundred times in one day, sometimes, to begin to feel a little crevice start to open. If you are closed, you are dead. You can't be right if you are closed. Can a closed person know what he or she did or did not do ? So, if you find that you are closed, you have to drop the whole issue of whether the other person is or is not right.


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