What Is, As It Is

The story of my life is nothing more than a long journey, from what I believed myself to be to what I truly am. It is a tale of transcending the personal and the universal, the partial and the total, the illusory and the real, the apparent and the true. My life is a flight beyond the temporal and the eternal, darkness and light, the human and the divine. This story is not public but profoundly private and intimate.

Only what begins, ends; only what starts, finishes. One who lives in the present is neither born nor dies, because what lacks a beginning never ends.

I am the disciple of a seer, an enlightened being, somebody who is nobody. I was initiated in my spiritual childhood by the moonlight. A seagull who loved flying more than anything else in life inspired me. In love with the impossible, I crossed the universe obsessed with a star. I have walked infinite paths, following the footsteps of those who saw.

Like the ocean that longs for water, I sought my home within my own house.

These meetings aren't lessons or lectures; they can only be called satsangs, or "meetings with the Truth." Satsanga is a Sanskrit word composed of two terms: sat or satya, "Truth," and sanga. Sanga is a word that we find in so many different places: sādhu-sanga, the sanga of the disciples of Lord Buddha. Sanga is "together," "in community," "gathered."

A lesson or conference is a meeting on a verbal or mental level, an encounter on the level of words, of the intellect. It's the meeting between a teacher and students in which study takes place. From a meeting of minds, only knowledge can ensue, but wisdom can never blossom as it can only arise from sanga.

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