The Supreme Doctrine - neo-alchemist

ON AFFECTIVITY
that my understanding has neutralised my fear I have the courage to turn
round, in a spirit of investigation, towards these hypothetical flames that my
flight had stirred up. This inner effort to capture what was seeking to capture
me causes my suffering to lose hold; it is thus that we should understand the
Zen concept of 'Letting Go'. This inner gesture frees the energy which was
tied up, dissolves what was coagulated; it installs me in an anaesthesia which
is not just absence of affectivity, but Not-Feeling, the motionless principle of
all the affective movements. In destroying affective partiality it prepares the
breaking forth of satori; it cures the 'malady of the spirit', this malady which
consists, according to Zen, in 'opposing that which we like to that which we
do not like'.
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