Article · 10 March 2026
Everyone asks themselves this question. At some point, everyone comes face to face with something the mind cannot resolve. An impossible decision. A life direction that defies all logic. A void that nothing external can fill. And the first reaction is always the same: search. Search harder. Think more. Ask others. Read one more book. Attend one more workshop.
That is exactly what you should not do.
In silence, a sound becomes audible. In the dark, light becomes visible.
New age circles, and a great many people who call themselves spiritual seekers without real knowledge, repeat the same thing: meditate. Close your eyes. Use a mantra. Sit in a silent room. And they stop there, convinced they have found the way.
It is a beginning. Nothing more.
A mantra can teach you to stop following every thought your mind manufactures. Focusing on your breath is a useful tool for someone discovering that it is possible not to think. These are crutches. Training wheels. Not the destination.
The goal is not to create the perfect conditions to reach a state. The goal is to sustain that state without any conditions at all.
Eyes open. In the middle of a city center. Surrounded by noise, movement, chaos. And yet being in a state of total non-thought, connected to everything, in a space where your ego no longer exists. Not because you have fled the world — but because you are able to be fully present in it without your mind taking over.
Someone who needs silence in order to be in silence has mastered nothing. They depend on an external circumstance. That is exactly what the mind wants: to make you believe you need something in order to get there.
You need nothing. Except yourself, without yourself.
There is, of course, more to our human experience than mastering non-thought. There is the fundamental need to find answers to the questions life asks of us. Answers that the mind, however much it loops on itself, will never find.
And this is where the opening sentence takes on its full meaning.
In silence, a sound becomes audible. In the dark, light becomes visible.
Cut off your thinking. Not by sitting in some prescribed posture, but by occupying your body. Garden. Clean your house. Go out for a walk. Think about nothing. Connect to nothing. Search for no answer.
And it is precisely at that moment that they arrive.
Perhaps not the ones you want in the moment. But the most important ones. The ones you truly need. The mind wants what it wants. Consciousness gives what is necessary.
This is exactly what I explore in Mon illusion de la réalité. This book is not a meditation manual. It is not another spiritual guide. It is the account of an introspective journey — mine — toward the moment when the separation between self and universe ceases to exist.
We live in a reality constructed by the mind. A reality made of preferences, aversions, fears and desires. The mind cuts up, sorts, categorizes. It creates a "me" separate from the world. And this separation is the fundamental illusion.
Non-duality is not a theory. It is an experience. One in which your consciousness opens without discrimination to every sensation, every thought, every emotion — not to analyze them, but to let them exist without the ego seizing them. It is not a state to be reached after years of practice. It is a truth to be recognized. It is already there. It has always been there. It is you who were not available.
This availability does not ask you to renounce the world. It asks you to see it as it is — without the permanent filter of a mind that judges, compares and separates. Eyes open, amid the noise, in the ordinariness of your everyday life.
This is what I teach. This is what I have lived. This is what I write in Mon illusion de la réalité.
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