Wednesday 30 September 2009

Inside The Wonder

Dear ones,
I hope this will be a long journey. I hope that through the next few weeks, months and years, I will be able (or we, if more come along, wishing to join and to share) to bring together into clarity that which has kept my mind ticking for so many countless instants.

Ever since i was a child that I've been interested in being here. There seems to be so much around and inside us. Wherever the mind turns it finds, it creates. Infinity is perhaps one of its domains.
The problem, for me, has always been the "real world". Inside is more or less easy. The boundaries are acknowledged. And I know it takes time to get where we want to be.

A retreat happened a few years ago.
And I found a lot of strangely old and new things.
I felt a lot inside of me be broken up, healed and transformed.
Yet, at the same time, it felt as if i hadn't lost anything. Just added more by removing redundancies, gaps between perceptions.
Basically, I grew up.
Though not in a linear, predicatable, logical way.
Things changed as I tried to get back in touch with the very basics of being alive.
Instead of looking from the height of consciousness into myself as a body, it was the reverse. It the plunging inside the core of being alive that made me expand and grow.

Hopefully, I will be able to explain all these things a bit better in subsequent posts.

But, before i do that, I want to let you know what I would like to do with this space.

I would like to use it to bridge Buddhism and Science.

(I know it's a lot but, hey, it's well worth trying)

The more I learn about one and experience the other, the more i see the obvious connections. Because I think most people - even those dedicating themselves to spiritual practices - are not aware of this, I would like to share my own perceptions of the interconnectivity of these two domains of human experience. I think both (and all of us) can greatly benefit from them.

The other thing is the growing feeling of underlying unity between all spiritual practices. In particular all those that seem to offer a very clear path towards enlightenment.

It is now my perception that one does not need to lose oneself in various practices in order to reach that core goal.
What is necessary, in my opinion, is to find a practice that is the most suitable to us and give it and ourselves time to fully mature within it.

My perspective stems from my own experiences and that which I have perceived along the way.

Please do not take my words as being the absolute truth. Everything is relative. Even when one is trying his or her hardest not to veil one's perceptions.
Only the experience of non-duality can actually give rise to the true understanding of what truth is and means.
Until then... we travel the limbo of reality.

If anything I hope that, one day, looking back, we can look back on what will be written here and feel continuity and evolution.

I hope that these words will bring all of closer to our individual truths and that we will be able to share a good measure of a common ground of experience.

To all beings
With Love and Kindness