At a certain point, it may be a good idea for dogmatic writings to gently recede, just as we decide to stop burdening ourselves with old things we’ve kept but never really used in real life.
The writings of monks, for monks, current or aspiring, fixed in the heavy world, sclerotic reflections of the rhetorical battles that took place in past centuries, history always being written by the victor, and the victor not necessarily being the most virtuous.
Many of these writings of dogmatic fixations, aborted, completed, truncated, remain in reality only the ego of the groups that defended them, and today we have no need of a new quarrel, nor of material to which to reattach the wagons of our web of identifications.
Truth, freedom, liberation through truth, this « truth that sets free » is beyond the dogmas of rhetoric.
Notes & Silence 
Dogma. The word makes me growl.
This is why I intend never again to belong to any group that holds to doctrine.
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Aren’t you thereby making « never belonging to a doctrine » a doctrine ?
To prove this wrong, I recommend you start belonging to a doctrine.
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It is not a doctrine in that I do not pretend it is the correct approach for everyone.
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Doctrines nay exist without being conveyed.
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A one-man doctrine.
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That seems rather to defeat the nature of doctrine, and to conflate it with belief and/or intention.
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Unless it is perceived as a framework and architecture for conceptual material.
…in which case the absence of doctrine is a threat to spiritual sanity.
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When did I claim to be sane, spiritually or otherwise?
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If sanity is not part of the objective, this fiercely opens the fields of possibilities…
Like cooking a meal and not makong good taste part of the chef s final plan
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I like the prospect of wild, untamed possibilities.
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You’re pointing at truth itself wearing thin across time—not because it’s false, but because we’ve leaned on the versions of truth that were built for old battles. Letting dogma recede isn’t surrender; it’s making space for clarity that isn’t tied to identity or victory. That alignment—from reaction to resonance—is the quiet work of liberation.
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