Who Are You in Truth?

It can happen that one feels torn, divided between the body, the mind, and something deeper. This division is not an error, but it becomes a source of confusion when it is not understood. By accumulating concepts and knowledge, one sometimes moves away from what is essential.

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Who Are You in Truth?

Duality, confusion… and a return to simplicity

Summary: It can happen that one feels torn, divided between the body, the mind, and something deeper. This division is not an error, but it becomes a source of confusion when it is not understood. By accumulating concepts and knowledge, one sometimes moves away from what is essential. Yet there is another kind of knowledge, one that does not add anything but brings clarity. By rediscovering within oneself a native simplicity, it becomes possible to recognize the living unity of being.

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It can happen that one feels torn, as if several tendencies coexisted within us. One part of us wants, another refuses. One part understands, another resists. At times, we speak to ourselves inwardly, we judge ourselves, we encourage ourselves. This impression is not abnormal. It is even universal.

A lived multiplicity

The human being is not made of a single block. There is the body, with its needs and its limits. There is the mind, with its thoughts, emotions, and memories. And there is something deeper, more stable, that is not confused with these movements.

The problem does not come from this multiplicity, but from the fact that it is not clearly seen. When everything becomes mixed together, confusion sets in.

The labyrinth of ideas

Faced with this complexity, many seek to understand. They read, compare, accumulate notions. They explore systems, theories, increasingly complex descriptions of what they are experiencing. This accumulation resolves nothing.

There is a knowledge that accumulates, and another that illuminates. One can spend a great deal of time exploring these constructions. But this does not truly bring one closer to what is essential.

A different kind of knowledge

There is, however, another form of knowledge that does not come from outside. It is not learned in books. It appears when attention turns toward what is lived, simply.

It is not an explanation, but a recognition. Something becomes clear, without passing through reasoning.

What divides

What maintains confusion is not the world, nor circumstances. It is an inner movement that separates, a part of us that takes itself for the whole. It identifies with thoughts, emotions, roles, and forgets what runs through them. This is what can be called the false ego. It does not create multiplicity, but turns it into a division that seems irreconcilable.

This movement of separation has long been known. Some have called it evil, not as an entity, but as that which divides.

A forgotten unity

Beyond this apparent multiplicity, there is unity — not an idea of unity, but a simple reality, always present. It does not depend on states or circumstances. It does not appear, it does not disappear. But as long as attention remains caught in the movements of the mind, it is not recognized.

One can spend a great deal of time searching, understanding, accumulating. But at a certain point, it becomes necessary to change direction. Not to add something more, but to return to what has been there from the beginning and does not change. It is a simple movement, but a decisive one.

The role of practice

This is where spiritual practice, rightly understood, takes on its full meaning.

It does not consist in building something new, but in returning, again and again, to what is already there, at the center, and recognizing it. This recognition cannot be declared. It is verified in practice.

returning, again and again, to what is already there, at the center, and recognizing it. Little by little, confusion diminishes. What was scattered gathers. What was unstable finds a point of support.

Conclusion

The human being is not something to be repaired. It is something to be brought back into order.

Multiplicity is not a problem in itself. It becomes a problem when it is lived as division. When what divides is seen, something can come together. Then, without insurmountable effort, another way of living appears: simpler, more direct, more right.

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