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Solitary thinking

Solitary thinking

by | May 22, 2025

“When the aspiration is to reach a wide audience, it is necessary to recognize that truth, in its entirety, does not lend itself easily to that end. Its structure demands to be stripped down, reduced, reformulated in terms that prioritize immediacy, emotion, or familiarity, to the point of diluting its original density. Where discourse abandons nuance, critical rigor, or reflective complexity, it tends to find a wider audience, albeit at the cost of a substantial loss of fidelity to its content.
Language aimed at the masses does not only demand expressive clarity; it often imposes a partial renunciation of meaning. Not because listeners lack intellectual capacity, but because the functioning of the masses does not replicate that of an individual consciousness.
Martin Heidegger says in “Time and Being, lecture 1962:
”Thinking that questions is solitary thinking. It cannot shout to be heard by everyone.”
The crowd does not ponder: it reacts. It does not examine fundamentals: it reproduces slogans. Against this backdrop, those who wish to please end up replacing thought with formulas that, under the guise of accessibility, conceal the trivialization of the essential. The wider the circle of recipients, the more the conceptual rigor of the message is compromised.
In contrast, those who choose to preserve the truth in its unmediated form—demanding, unstable, uncomfortable—must accept the conditions of selective discourse.
Truth offers no immediate comfort, flatters no inclinations, and does not accommodate pre-established expectations. It requires a disposition that cannot be improvised: time, sustained attention, and asceticism of judgment. For this reason, any discourse that aspires to be faithful to reality is offered only to those who have cultivated the patience and effort necessary to receive it without distortion.
Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa contra Gentiles I, chapter 4, says:
“Pauci sunt qui veritatem inquirunt.”
“Few are those who seek the truth.”
The dilemma is structural. One can choose the path of easy consensus, saying what many want to hear, or one can insist on the demands of thought, even knowing that few will persevere in listening. But if among those few there are those who have arrived without having been flattered or seduced, then there is a possibility that they are truly willing to understand. And that understanding, though rare, has no equivalent in immediate acclaim, because it is based on the authenticity of the message, not on its rhetorical usefulness.”
Prabhuji
Authenticity

Authenticity

by | May 21, 2025

“There is a moment—not always obvious, but decisive—when the compulsion to accumulate weakens and the need to understand imposes itself with silent force. The desire remains, but its orientation is transformed. It ceases to be driven by quantity and begins to seek direction. It no longer aspires to excess, but to truth. This vital inflection does not usually manifest itself with spectacular gestures or fireworks. It bursts into the ordinary: into the emptiness that follows a goal achieved, into the unease that follows a meaningless celebration, into the fatigue that cannot be explained by physical exertion alone. In this unscheduled interruption, a question arises that, although it has no definite form, demands an answer.
My friend, the search for meaning does not consist of avoiding suffering or idealizing joy. It implies, first and foremost, a willingness to listen. Listening not in the passive sense, but as an act of radical attention to that which has been buried by the demands of others, unconscious repetitions, and narratives that one has accepted without having chosen them. As Søren Kierkegaard points out, truth is not imposed from outside; it is appropriated through existential internalization. Authenticity, then, is not equivalent to arbitrary self-assertion. It is a form of responsibility to what has been clearly and lucidly recognized as true.
In a historical context marked by acceleration, simulation, and the imperative of visibility, choosing an authentic life is an act of resistance. It is not a matter of ideological opposition, but of silent fidelity to a truth that does not need to be justified. Rejecting prefabricated scripts requires the courage to declare, “This does not represent me.” But it also requires accepting, “This commits me, even if it makes me uncomfortable.” As Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” However, that why is not inherited: it must be discovered and chosen or elected. Meaning is not achieved like solving an equation. It is cultivated, as Zen master Dōgen observes, in the way one walks, eats, speaks, and works. It does not require heroic gestures. It dwells in consistency without witnesses, in words that do not betray, in silent decisions. In this mode of presence, time ceases to push forward. It begins to unfold as a livable space. Heidegger put it precisely: it is not a matter of occupying time, but of “dwelling” in it from being.
Authenticity is not about being right or obtaining external validation. It is about reconciling oneself with what one has become. It is not about belonging to all environments, but about finding a place where it is not necessary to pretend. Laozi teaches that “the wise man does not show off, and therefore shines; he does not justify himself, and therefore convinces.” Authenticity does not seek applause. It generates silence. And in a world saturated with noise, that silence is the unmistakable sign of a presence that does not need to impose itself.
Seeking meaning is not a luxury reserved for exceptional moments. It is a structural necessity of existence. Living authentically is not an occasional privilege. It is a constant demand. It requires decision, renunciation, and vigilance. And when you fail, start again. And when you lose your direction, stop. Sometimes, it is enough to stop running away from silence to begin to see. As Simone Weil said, “Attention, taken in its highest sense, is the purest form of generosity.”
And then, without artifice or effort, life begins to reflect soberly who one is. And in that discreet correspondence between being and living, time ceases to be a race. It becomes a dwelling place.”
Prabhuji
Nature is sufficient

Nature is sufficient

by | May 19, 2025

“There is no need to rush the process or anticipate its outcome. The essential is already within you. You are not incomplete: you are potential waiting to be realized, not a deficit to be corrected. The seed does not design the tree it will become. Its entire future morphology—leaves, flowers, fruits—is contained in its original architecture. It does not project: it allows the unfolding to happen. Likewise, human beings do not construct their destiny through individual will, but rather accompany a direction inherent in their most intimate structure. They do not need external intervention, but rather internal conditions that favor development: sustained attention, watchful silence, non-reactive receptivity. Organic growth does not obey commands or require instructions: it emerges from within if the environment allows it. Attempting to guide the process of individuation through closed doctrines or prescriptive rituals interferes with its flow. It introduces dissonance between what is implied and what is imposed. It fragments the continuity of becoming. Consciousness cannot expand if it is subjected to fixed forms. It is the ratio universalis—not private intention—that legitimately guides us. As the Stoics affirmed, the logos spermatikós structures from within, without violence.
Human beings are not born as finished, complete entities. They are an opening, an ontological orientation in progress. At their core lies a tendency that aspires to a mode of existence beyond the restrictions of the egoic nature. This transformation does not require inherited beliefs or imposed renunciations. It does not demand external regulations or institutional validation. It requires a willingness to let this internal dynamic act without interruption.
Any demand for guarantees prevents transition. If the seed needed certainty before breaking its shell, it would remain inert. If the bird avoided leaving the egg for fear of the unknown, it would remain motionless. Growth is incompatible with the search for absolute security. It requires exposure to risk, passage through uncertainty, renunciation of the known. Transformation implies vulnerability, but without it, no expansion is possible. Those who wait for infallible promises become paralyzed. The only authentic certainty is the possibility that dwells within you. To be realized, this potential requires deliberate openness and suspension of control.
ὁ δὲ θεὸς παιδὶ ἐοικώς, παίζων πεσσεύων· παιδὸς ἡ βασιληίη.
“God is like a child playing dice; sovereignty belongs to the child.”
(Heraclitus, fr. DK 52)
The divine does not act as the engineer of a predetermined order. It does not execute a plan or impose an external purpose. It behaves like a free player who creates without calculation. Heraclitus introduces here an image that destabilizes all metaphysics of predictability: the sacred operates without rigidity, through a structuring spontaneity that needs no justification.
Entering into this logic requires abandoning the pretense of mastery and assuming a lucid surrender. Remaining attached to the shell of personal convictions prevents flight. Freedom does not emerge from control, but from trust in an orientation vaster than the autonomous self.
Ἐγγὺς ἐστὶν ὁ λόγος, ὁν ἀνθρώποι διατελοῦσιν ἀγνοοῦντες.
“The Logos is near, but men continually ignore it.”
(Heraclitus, fr. DK 72)
Truth is neither distant nor inaccessible. It dwells in immediacy, but becomes indiscernible when proof is demanded, when prior certainty is desired. The accumulation of knowledge does not guarantee access. Openness, on the other hand, does make it possible. Only those who abandon resistance mature. Only those who yield to this silent dynamic attain a broader state of being.
No agonizing effort or compulsive asceticism is required. It is enough to allow that original structure to express itself without interference. Transformation does not come from voluntaristic imposition, but from lucid consent. It is not achieved through confrontation, but through availability. Nature is sufficient. Trust in it’s knowledge.
Prabhuji
The true wisdom

The true wisdom

by | May 17, 2025

“Be wary of anyone who claims to have found the truth and invites followers to spread it. Be wary of anyone who seeks to teach, promote, sell, or rent truths as if they were commodities. Where someone proclaims themselves the guardian of the absolute, the corruption of the ability to question has already begun. Truth is born of seeking, not of imposition. Let no one sell you certainty in exchange for obedience. True wisdom is not transmitted as a slogan; it is cultivated in inner silence, in honest doubt, in dialogue without hierarchy.”
Prabhuji