Border Stones And Beacons

One might think that border stones and beacons are equivalent.
Regarding practices, this is not the case: a limited path and a marked path are two different things.
The border stone implies a restriction of the field of experience caused, not by the structures of the path, but by the representations of practitioners.
These can be the consequences of his own doing or the result of a transmission of reduced representations, finding in the practitioner a compatibility with his aspirations of the moment.
Such a limited experience of the path may be transitory or accompany the practitioner throughout his life. It can contribute to progressive confinement in a sectarian and ostracizing discourse.
On the marked path (beacons), the markers found provide an archetypal framework for the content transmitted.

These are the colors and flavors specific to the path emerging in the ears, in the minds of communities and disciples. Each marker also has a buried part, similar to the real paths and attesting to its authenticity.
From this double presentation of the markers two profiles of practitioners emerge :

One will particularly relate to formal specificities. However dogmatic or conceptual of tradition,
The other will see the archetypal, structuring aspect of the tradition and recognize and know how to see a fellow student in the walker crossed at an intersection.

Likewise, bounded or marked out, the practice of sitting.
Border stone or beacon, prayer.

What a profound joy for the practitioner who knows how to transform border stones into beacons
And sees in the exterior part, the heart of buried practice.

Such freedom along the way!

Franck – September 2023
Recueils / Participations/ Pratique