Hubert benoit interior realization thesaurus
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Supreme Doctrine: A recap of Benoit's main ideas
A directory of items following the introductory remarks:
Abstract Self | Compensations | Compensation Categories | Conciliation of Opposites | Faith, Hope & Charity | Humility and acceptance | The Idealist | Instinctive Self | The Materialist | Not-doing | Opposing tendencies | Pretenses | Satori | Values inventory
The Supreme Doctrine is rich and dense in its explanation of how the individual man forms and matures.
Benoit refers to this process as the pattern of our natural development, which leaves us with a great sense of metaphysical distress.
Benoit says that interior change requires two distinct components: conceptual understanding and concrete suffering.
The central experience of our existence, beneath the surface waves of happiness and sadness, is a feeling of being continually overstrained. When we look inside ourselves, we see an ongoing conflict that creates this distress.
Benoit describes how this distress comes about and how the mind attempts to handle it, always unsuccessfully. The only real solution, he says, is the int