TANTRIC-QUEST-Encounter-with-Absolute-Love

pride. When I say that intelligence is not the way, I don'tmean to say intelligence must be rejected. I am simply sayingthat intelligence which accomplishes anything appearsunsolicited. In tranquility it shines like a diamond. Let usreturn simply to the source of our consciousness and findthere the treasure we sought on the outside. It's enough tosit down, to forget books and discussion, to direct our attentiontoward the heart. There the divine is found. Thereis the place of respiration where our breath mingles naturallyThe infinite is no more than that harmonious breathing,free of all thought."The fifth cuirass is the illusion we harbor in believingour creativity is limited, sometimes even doubting that wepossess the least trace of it. That's what pushes us to reverewhat others produce. To have beauty flow past us isn'tenough. This urge, which can open us up to our unlimitedcreativity, is restrained by the idea that we aren't capableof such splendor. We remain without a voice, the ribcageconstricted, overwhelmed by the beauty of the world. Ifwe truly breathed, this cuirass would explode, and the objectof our admiration would no longer be found in duality.The beauty of the world would then be ours. Mystical ecstasyis just this sudden explosion of the small me, whichrecognizes the divine Self. Everything gathered up in theconsciousness is then projected into the infinite, and onecan cry out in joy because in this moment all the beauty ofthe world becomes part of the Self."These five cuirasses are surrounded by a supreme cuirass,which is that of maya, illusion, in its own nature, whichwelds these different protective plates together and insurestheir artificial cohesion. We are decorated like fighting81