"I lya internal arrangements, fruit farm along with a secret decision earnest prayer that is more efficient to receive the grace to act and behave according to God's will that hard and severe asceticism. So you recognize the tree by its fruit. "
( leaf extract given to St Romain de Condat )
Thus, nowadays Some they inflicted for years, as practitioners of zazen a rigorous and painful physical posture in the hope - yet hardly consistent with the orthodoxy of Zen practice which advocates free mushotoku - obtain the satori, enlightenment like the Buddha under his tree. This asceticism, although it is not without digging gradually their heart of stone, and carved like a drop of water finally dig the rock on which it falls regularly, does not mean to give them this illumination as desired. They have the illusion that their first spiritual efforts alone will enable them to achieve satori and then they make up their minds an image of the enlightened state like that of an extraordinary event assuring them of additional state serenity reliable and durable, even definitive. Unfortunately it is not so ...
Our icon of St John of the Ladder shows great ascetics in full dress, very close to achieving Stretched of Our Lord, who fall among blacks demons before they reach the goal ...
Certainly one can not avoid asceticism, but even if it is above the simple moral it is perhaps only a wide ramp that leads to Heaven, it does not protect us from all the falls and particularly the more serious that caused by pride.
For it is likely that through acts more in the sweet pain of abandonment that the voltage stress.
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