Concepts

 

Concepts

 

A concept is the fruit of thought. In spirituality, a concept is not a great help to live the truth of Unity.

A meditator who tells his experience of meditation does not say concepts, he testifies, but if he crystallizes his testimony, if he attaches himself to the words he contains, it becomes a concept. The truth is in the moment.

The word "concept" often comes up in the writings of The Path, in the satsang and in the answers I give to seekers of Revelation. The word is not that simple to understand. Here is a definition: “A concept is a theoretical knowledge”.

A concept is a content of thought, sometimes considered an abstract idea, thus separated from the reality of a thing, a situation, a phenomenon.” (Wikipedia).

Some concepts will be just, reasonable, sensible, common sense, others are unrealistic, false, without any foundation, but what matters: whether the concept is right or wrong, it remains a concept. A fair concept can still help the practitioner to do some cleaning in his mind, this is his only utility.

Build Its Concepts

There is a game, on consoles or PCs, called "Minecraft", where in a cubist universe, you build a house, you dig mines, you look for food, etc. In this universe, you can do everything, stacking cubes.

It is a very entertaining game as long as there is still a game, but when the screen is turned off and we return to real life, nothing we have built in Minecraft is useful to us: it has no real existence, it is virtual.

This is what concepts are: virtual constructions of thought without reality or utility other than that mentioned above. “In spirituality” most discourses, knowledge is virtual. They come from books that are more or less well understood and that we do not know if those who wrote them did so from concepts or from a real experience.

Most of the time the books, which we used to support our concepts, were written by people who did not know the one they are talking about or experienced the experiences described.

A Truth Virtual

When those who have written these books make a positive buzz, they will have a positive bias and their concepts will become a truth… a virtual truth. It is not because concepts are shared by a large number of people that they are realities. Number doesn’t make the truth.

Some knowledge is just and useful, such as mathematics, writing, science, morality, history, etc. Other knowledge, especially about spirituality, is exclusively conceptual, virtual.

When concepts are institutionalized, such as those that found religions, they become truths. In truth, they are not: a concept is a concept and even if several billion people believe it does not make it a truth.

Acquaintance and Knowledge

There are also homonyms: knowledge and knowledge. Knowledge is learned in books, from the mouths of other people, teachers or priests, imams, rabbis and other more or less authentic “spiritual masters”.

Knowledge (not learned) comes from within, as if by capillarity, through the practice of a true and profound spiritual discipline. It is the method, the practice that an authentic master can reveal and his teaching can give correct concepts.

On The Path, through the practice of its pillars, its agya, knowledge comes from within. It is not the guide of The Path who teaches this knowledge, but the disciple who finds it in him through practice. This knowledge is not made up of concepts stacked in the form of dogma, it is just an evidence, a finding, an understanding.

Teaching of the Guide

Paradox: it is recommended that practitioners, those who have had Revelation, as well as aspirants, receive the teaching of the guide through his satsang. This is only an apparent paradox, as the teaching of the guide is not a set of conceptual knowledge to be memorized.

The teaching of the guide is more an inspiration to go see yourself, encouragement and advice for practice, in a word guidance. You never put anything in people’s heads that aren’t already there.

An experience is shared, but is not hoarded. The moment-present is responsible for giving you back as you draw from it.

 

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