The Supreme Doctrine - neo-alchemist

THE EXISTENTIALISM OF ZEN
'ex', on the temporal limitation, and thus finds himself in a heart-rending
dualism; he is torn between the 'ex', which is behind him and which he cannot
destroy, and an illusory 'sistere' which seems to be in front of him in the
semblance of the egotistical affirmation and which he never succeeds in
seizing.
If man accepted the relative reality of existence, he would feel
identified with the Principle from which he emanates. But egotistical man
does not accept the relative reality of existence; his mentality, despising and
rejecting existence, rushes towards the illusory egotistical affirmation of
'acting' as a distinct being, playing, in regard to this mirage which emanates
from him, the role, usurped but flattering, of Principle. He thus seeks inner
peace in a way that renders it unobtainable. In order to find inner peace, man
should reconsider everything, realise the nullity of all his 'opinions', of all his
judgments of the value of things, free himself entirely by that means from the
centrifugal fascination of the egotistical affirmation, realise the nullity of the
egotistical notion of living and of the reality of the universal existing.
Renouncing all false heavens he is given back to the Earth, he exists
consciously, he 'is in the world' (Rimbaud: 'Nous ne sommes pas au monde'),
and his reconciliaton with the 'ex' allows him to be in possession of the
'sistere'. He is the original source when he agrees to be, by his organism, only
a phenomenon, a passing emanation of this source, emanation without any
special interest and whose individual destiny is without the slightest
importance.
It is interesting to examine in its entirety the organism of the human-
being, his anatomy and his physiology, while asking oneself what is the use
of all that one sees there. Digestion and respiration (and all the corresponding
organs) serve to feed the blood with nutritive materials. The circulatory
apparatus serves to deliver to all parts of the organism this nourishing blood.
The delivery of this blood serves to maintain the bones, joints, and muscles;
the bones are a framework without which the muscles could not carry out
movements; the joints condition this use of the framework. The cerebrospinal
nervous-system releases and co-ordinates the muscular contractions; it
regulates the execution of movements and the conception of movements to be
made. The vegetative nervous system controls the harmonious functioning of
the viscera on which depend, as we have seen, the maintenance of the motor
muscles. The endocrine system is connected with the vegetative nervous
system and has the same harmonising function. All, in short, except the
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