- “Why do
we practice? ”,
- “Why
should I practice? ”,
- “What
will the practice bring to me? ”
This way of
asking the question, just like we would wonder what such new diet product or
such new pair of shoes will bring to us, is not the best one…
The desire,
expectation or projection in the success of our practice, the goal we fix
ourselves or the need we seek to fill, all are exactly what the practice seeks
to alleviate, what the training wants to eliminate.
To gain
something, to acquire or to succeed with something will bring an inevitable
disappointment: the practice never gives you what you expect.
The
practice seeks to release us from the need to acquire or to gain, the training
wants to make us touch a perception of the reality which brings us out of our
false needs.
The
practice will give us the only possible peace, the only true way towards
happiness: the Way will give us
the opportunity to be happy by ourselves, a joy which comes from inside.
This
realization, which comes from inside, cannot find satisfaction in an
external projection, in an expectation on time or a change in the world: it is
by our internal change that the perception of the world will change, that the
life will become simple and without any concerns.
It is the only
and true freedom, it is the only and true happiness.
This
balance which leads to freedom and perception of reality, this way is internal
and independent from our desires.
The desires
to succeed in our way and the desires to make it well, the false choices which
lead us to wish states or all that builds us sick expectations, all this
clutter propels us in the external world and moves us away from our internal
well-being.
The
practice enables us to stop wishing to be a good practitioner, education builds
us and makes us able to give up our expectations of success to be able to make
a deep self-accomplishment.
The difficulty
comes when by reading these lines you think: “I understand”… however it is for
sure more complicated than that!
Nobody really
wants to suffer, nobody wants to be the slave of his mind and nobody really wishes
to depend on his desires and to suffer the related frustrations.
Our deep
nature is peaceful and happy, it is what we accumulated on top which is a
problem for us and it is with all these imbalances that we want to reach our
happiness: our vision of the realization is built by a spirit conceived and far
away from the reality.
Our
practice releases us if we are able to leave our prejudices and only time will give
us this chance: let’s follow the path of our personal Way and all will slowly
get clearer.
There is no
fast track, no short cuts, but there are complete ways and qualified teachers.
“Why do we practice?”
- To release ourselves from the desire of self realization, only because
we trust our Way.
