Éric Baret: Interview #11

[Guest guest]

INTERVIEWER: I see that all questions can be reduced to one

question.

All questions come back to the idea of wanting to do something. What

do you think?

 

Of course! I have been there myself with my teacher. He had answered

all possible questions. There were no more questions, but still

there

was this movement of energy asking, even though I knew there could

not be any answer. In fact, I was asking him to make me shut up, it

was very clear. The only answer was to shut up. But you cannot will

this to happen, it can only happen through maturity. I see clearly

that I cannot understand beyond the level of my understanding, that

thinking only comes from pretending to be able to think, from

claiming that we are able to understand by thinking. When one

constantly lives with the understanding that thought cannot go

beyond

thought, that feeling cannot go beyond feeling, then what remains is

what Meister Eckhart described as humility. It is the space where

God

Himself must be the background and the operator of what is. But as

long as I want it, I cannot have it, because I believe I don't have

it.

 

So, you must just stop pretending. When I ask a master what I should

do, I assume that it is not done. This claim prevents me from being

honest, from being resonance, which is what I am. So, one should

experience this fact over and over again, one should feel it and

formulate it in many ways, until this fact resonates as such and the

desire to ask comes no more — because there is nothing to ask. When

you don't ask, the energy isn't dispersed and it can awaken in

silence. But it is important to realize that all questions basically

come back to " what can I do? " and that the answer is that there is

nothing you can do. So, one must live with this fact and the clarity

will come as humility: I cannot win, so I'll stop fighting. As long

as I have the slightest idea that, maybe if I fight I can win, maybe

if I go there it will happen, maybe if I live like that, or I don't

live like that, or if I don't do that, it will happen, then I deny

my

truth, I deny what is now. So, I live honestly with the knowledge

that this urge to ask, which is the root of all activity in life,

can

only be what it is: a mere reflection of the truth. That is why

asking a question is an expression of the answer, it is the

opportunity to see that the question resonates from its origin.