The starting point of all this is the event that followed my transplant. It happened the day after the operation, at the moment I was expressing my gratitude. While intimately and from the depths of my heart I was thanking Heaven for the outcome of my illness, suddenly, everything was giving itself… in me… and all around me... Amazed, I was simply facing the obviousness. As if the dual filter superimposed on reality had fallen.
Everything here, as on the first day, was only one. Everything, multiple and singular, was contained in a single and same sky, into a single and same truth.
Presentation
I do not claim to have discovered a new philosophy or spirituality. Through this site and my writings, I am just trying to witness a lived experience, direct and lively, which definitely changed my eye on things. I do not think this realization. I do not need to believe in it or not. It emerges like a life that flows. It tries to tell itself, to flourish beyond me. I can speak, mention it through words, concepts, but none of this has the power to say what it really is. We can describe a beautiful landscape, but as long as we have not seen it and experienced it ourselves, we know nothing of it. My only power is to invite you to go and see this "Landscape", to contact it in yourselves.
Biography
Denis Marie was born in 1959 in Lorient. He is the author of "The ordinary awakening, the gift of the heart" published in November 2007 by the editions “L’Originel” - Charles Antoni. He describes in it his realization following an awakening experience that occurred in a hospital after a transplant in 1996.
Despite many years of research and practice in both Christian and Buddhist traditions, it is finally out of any religious or spiritual context that a radical change happened. It is only after ten years of observation and integration of his experience that he decided to expose more openly his understanding.
"An ordinary awakening"
Realization is ordinary because it is not about a performance or a construction. It does not rely on reaching a special status or any kind of transcendence. The awakening is ordinary because it is not "other". We awaken to what we originally are, to our nature, our nakedness. Typically, we speak about "reaching enlightenment”, but it would be more appropriate to say that we "lose" or that we let go of our illusions.“It is the very “who” or "that" which seeks that we must meet”
Through his words, Denis Marie tells us that enlightenment is spontaneous and does not result of a long path of practices and asceticism. On the contrary, the truth that we seek gives itself continuously, in an unconditional way. If we have difficulties in awakening, it is not because it is complicated. It is because we start from a wrong assumption and we hope elsewhere or later a truth that is already here."I am not my mind"
We remain trapped in illusion because we enter this life and our quest of absolute in identification with the conceptual mind. Through Self-knowledge and the fact to adopt the "Seeing", he explains how we can thwart this oppression and “place" ourselves in our Being, at the source of the mind. Thus, distinguishing mind as one of our functions, of course, we re-gain the flow of spontaneous Presence and experience directly the “Beingness""To have a heart"
Without using the strategies of the mind, it is possible to "come back" to what we naturally are and update the Seeing. The heart is the pearl. It is the live spark, the origin of everything. We re-gain it, re-integrate it, basing ourselves on its own qualities, such as generosity, authenticity, love..."Heaven and Earth are One"
It is only through spontaneous updating, here, in the heart of the living, that is revealed to us the deep and mystical meaning of this slogan. Thus opens to us the tasting of the indivisible unity in "What Is". In the living Presence, forgetting theories and conventions, we go beyond the dual vision. We see that the creator and its creation have no inner or separated existences. In the state that remains original, we realize its continuity, its oneness, despite everything that arises as thoughts, emotions or actions. Thus, in the source, the illusory forms continue to occur. However, there is not a "second" reality with which to delude ourselves.Although the approach of Denis Marie has similarities with the philosophy of non-duality that is found in some Buddhist schools and the Indian tradition of Advaita, it is not based on any of these doctrines. For him, there is no theory on which to rely, given that all of them are based on the mind. Indeed, if we are not our mind, what is the need to use it and adopt it? Paradoxically, isn’t this a new "spiritual" way to keep ourselves behind the goal? More directly, it is through the gift of the heart, the fact of Seeing, that we realize, that we "fall" in the evidence of this truth.
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