Pablo d’Ors, spiritual teacher and writer: “We all pilgrimage in search of the most genuine and intuited that the essential is played inside”

Let’s start at the end.
Pablo d’Ors He ends his new book by recreating a story by Borges: «They are Millenniums Cain and Abel after Eden. How are you? Abel asks Cain. Don’t you remember that I killed you?, I reply. No, he says the first, but I remember that you are my brother ». Legend, his title, serves the
spiritual teacher To explain that “who cultivates the light what ends up discovering is that only she exists, being canceled everything else.”

Reading, and also listening to him, is already being in a retirement, meditating. Or embarked on a trip to silence. There is something always biblical in his words. D’Ors (Madrid, 1963) has a lot of teacher and
preacher To the old woman. And not precisely in the desert, even if it is so yours, since its followers are counted by thousands.

This time has versed
The Russian pilgrimthe story of the adventures of a young peasant who undertakes a wandering existence in search of a teacher who taught him to pray without interruption. It is a classic of Orthodox Christianity and the contemplative practice Hesicasta, that of Mount Atos, who saw the light in 1865 and fell into his hands to the twenties. He has lengthened and widened with a brief essay. The set is called
Devotion (Gutenberg Galaxy).

On the other hand, he is confident in provoking in a reader something similar to what certain authors and his books once aroused in him. It refers, for example, in the eyes of Eternal Brother, by Stefan Zweig; A Stoner, by John Williams, or the song of the bird, by Anthony de Mello. We cannot forget the introduction to Angelica life, of the philosopher Eugenio d’Ors, his grandfather. Nor of the set of beads, of
Herman Hesseof which he is devout.

The author usually awakens passions, or perhaps we would have to say fervent. Passed with his
Biography of silencea text about the meditation that worked the editorial miracle and became a bestseller; More than 350,000 copies sold. And the same with his biography of the light, a rereading of the gospel written from a cultural, non -confessional perspective, and praised by Pope Francis. This is the land in which the priest and founder of the meditator network
Desert friends It develops like fish in the water. Oceanic waters, yes; hugging everything.

Pablo d’Ors has just published devotion. / /

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Now, in devotion he presents us to the Russian pilgrim, whom he portrays as one of those
crazy of God of who is the kingdom of heaven. He does not have, he advances, nothing of Cándido or Simplón as the soldier Švejk, the character of the Czech Jaroslav Hašek. Nor again idiot in the style of Dostoevski. What happens, it specifies, is that “we do not identify or with its tribulations, outside our busy life, or with its temperament, perhaps too naive for our refined sensitivity.”

In the background, d’Ors comes to say, «we also pilgrimage, each in their circumstances, in search of
The most genuine». Moreover, “we also, apprentices of mystics and poets, intuit that the essential is played inside and, consequently, the fullness to which we aspire is here and now.”

Integral meditation to cultivate the interior

The author, who imparts conferences and withdrawals in Spain and Latin America, soon understood that there is more truth in all religions together than in one. That is, that «the inner experience of the
Christian mystics It is substantially the same as that of the suffering mystics, that of the Himalayas Yogis or that of the illuminated Buddhists ». For Pablo d’Ors it is clear: “True spirituality has no borders.”

It is a thought that drips on all his books: the contemplatives, enthusiasm or that other that served to extol the proverbial figure of Charles de Foucauld, his oblivion. With this one that comes now, opens a door «to that
Interior kingdom where we are waiting for what we really are ». Because, as it usually points out, “your deep self is waiting for your superficial self to give him a hug.”

In this field, that of personal growth and the cultivation of interiority, proposes the
Integral meditation. As? Incorporating “all wisdom referred to the self -knowledge of other spiritual traditions in the mother tradition itself.” The fundamental thing is that “it covers all the dimensions of the human being: the body, the emotional, the cognitive and the contemplative.” Clarifies that «the transcendence of the ego is not carried out in the isolation, but in the
Traffic jamsfor example, when an impatient touches you the horn ». Transcending is keyword.

Pablo d’Ors proposes comprehensive meditation. / /

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Pablo d’Ors was a devout child, a teenager attracted to meditation and orientalism who came to dream of a trip to Tibet. So he cultivated philosophy and theology even before going to university. The now teacher was a disciple of the philosopher Claretiano Antonio S. Orantos, who taught him that life was serious; of the Benedictine theologian Elmar Salmann, from whom he learned that humor is the most elegant and effective way of
practice humilityand of the Jesuit Franz Jalics, thanks to the one who knew that you do not have to take oneself or seriously or joke, you simply do not have to be taken. End of the ego.

10 teachings for spiritual seekers

“We live stressed, unable to stop, hysterical or depressed, moving from here to there without ton or are.” It happens to us, says D’Ors, because we are not aligned with love. In his opinion, we have to return to the commandments, to God. From there you are
10 teachings For the spiritual search engine:

1. Listen and
Put on the way. It is necessary to be very open to learning and, above all, to release all prejudice. If we put ourselves on the way, the road is done in us.

2.
Search and
Find a teacherYou can’t travel the path yourself. The decisive thing is that in your presence you feel peace, love and joy, and that you drive you to be better.

3. Obey the guidelines that your teacher proposes with good spirit and faithfulness. Give him a vote of trust in order to verify the effectiveness of his teachings. Always point to the bottom of things,
Love. You are Christ, or Buddha, if you love others like yourself.

4. Understand that the materialistic vision is wrong. It is the
spirit of the
life who grants everything. You access the awareness of that vital energy thanks to the cultivation of attention, that you train in meditation and the chores of everyday life, because no activity is better than another.

5. Realize that all obstacles are not, in reality, impediments to make the way, but the path itself. Think that any
suffering That it comes to you is emotional, physical or sentimental, but that you are called to a spiritual life.

6. Look briefly and lovingly any harmful thought or unhealthy emotion as soon as you assault you. Replace the dark with
The luminous: A positive statement, a jaculatory (mantra) or a simple conscious breathing that connects you with your heart.

7.
Stay serene Whatever happens. Respect everything that happens abroad without, of entry, react or intervene. Self -responsibility of what you feel inside.

8. Understand that death does not exist, since
Life is immortal. Perceive that at every moment we die to what we are not, but what we are in the background remains unchanged.

9.
It fulfills the precepts, which are like our second nature. If you live according to a
Moral code Of course, you will see how life smiles at you, because everything you see outside is a perfect mirror of what you have inside.

10. Dedicate your time to God and
Love your fellow men Like yourself, because you are yourself. He feels how the soul is the desire to do good, and enjoy the fact of living to grow and serve.