On Spiritual Anarchism

I have told about thought distortions, and how important it is that, seeing how inevitably corrupt the various types of religious, secular, and social organizations are, to belong to any of them not only prevents the unburdening of one’s conditioning but also prevents one from seeing things clearly. 

I have also told that it is a value of having a religion in a spiritual practice. It is necessary to realize who you are, your painbody, and your cultural roots. You must have a cultural frame of reference. In a spiritual practice that means a religion. This will create a direction in your mind.

But you must discriminate between philosophy and ideology. Philosophy, love of wisdom, liberates. Ideology, love of power, corrupts. Don´t make your frame of reference into an ideology. Eventually it must fall away. All images and ideas must eventually leave your mind in order to enter the creative emptiness, which is the Source.

I have said that is important to be able to stand completely alone, not adhering any group or sect, following any teacher or guru (me included), so that we can bring about quite a different kind of society.

I do not know if you see the importance of or have an insight into this question, because most of us are very confused. There are so many demands and pressures that most of us lean on somebody—we want to be guided and told what to do. In ourselves we have no clarity, and of course there are those who say that they are very clear, in a state of enlightenment, or of freedom, and so on. And being uncertain ourselves, we more or less yield to their persuasion and so not only become more conditioned but accept a new form of conditioning. And if we are conditioned in this way, our mind inevitably becomes almost mechanical.

It is not that I am telling you what to think or how to think, but rather that we together investigate, understand, have an insight into all these problems, so that you are very clear at the end of it. So that in that clarity you stand alone. Because one must bring about a totally different kind of society, a totally different kind of human being, and the more one sees what is happening in the world, the greater the demand for such a human being.

It is only the human being who is capable of standing alone—in the sense of not belonging to any group, any party, any community, any set of dogmas, beliefs, conclusions—that can be creative.

Creativity is to be an instrument of Wisdom, and yourself a Life Artist.