Inspirerend boek

Dit is een boek dat elke hulpverlener gelezen moet hebben.

Het legt de ware aard van de mens en onze verkeerde aannames ten aanzien van die ware aard volledig bloot.
En wel op zo'n evidente manier dat onze logica (lees: advocaat van de duivel) het onmogelijk kan weerleggen.

Dit boek brengt spiritualiteit, en daarmee zelfonderzoek, terug naar de essentie en ontdoet het daarmee van elke zweem van exceptionaliteit waarmee het vaak omkleed wordt. 

Fragment:

At the back of all that there is the following simple-minded reasoning:
"Things are going badly with me in such and such a way; very well, from now on I am going to do exactly the opposite."

This way of regarding the problem, starting from a form that is judged to be bad, encloses the searcher within the limits of a domain that is formal, and, as a result deprives him of all possibility of re-establishing his conciousness beyond all form.

When I am enclosed within the limits of the plane of dualism no reversal of method will deliver me from the dualistic illusion and restore me to Unity.

The penetrating thought of Zen cuts through all our phenomena without stopping to consider their particularities.

It knows that in reality nothing is wrong with us and that we suffer because we do not understand that everything works perfectly, because in consequence we believe falsely that all is not well and that it is necessary to put something right.

Hubert Benoit: The supreme doctrine. Sussex, 2009, pag. 2-3.