[The following text is my response and proposal to the event «Standing at the Age» organised by Mind & Life Europe, and broadcast on 26 January 2022. The Youtube link to the event:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOxcy5St-lg ]

(1) I have listened very carefully to the interventions of the panellists. I found many valuable elements for reflection. However, I believe that there is an underlying problem that must be explicitly taken on board. It is not possible to talk about standing at the edge without taking into consideration that this edge is a civilisational construction. Is the expression of a very particular «totality with its exteriority», a historically instituted regime of social and ecological relations that dominates not only institutional forms and social practices, but also, in a subterranean way, our own consciousness, our imaginations.
«One world is dying and another has not yet been born». This phrase by Antonio Gramsci expresses the bardo’s experience at the political level. 

(2) However, the world that is dying, like the life of each of us at the moment of our own deaths, is not just any world, but a concrete world, with its history, its character, its promises. Bardos are not empty experiences, but on the contrary experiences charged with our own unbridled history. Therefore, being open does not mean contemplating the desert of the real standing on the edge and looking at the abyss. The Heart Sutra says: 
«Form is emptiness. Emptiness is form». 

(3) Of course, we must maintain humility and avoid at all costs the kind of domineering and instrumentalist attitudes that has been so much talked about since the very beginning of modernity. Who could disagree? But this does not mean keeping a passive attitude. Dialogue with reality always demands a response on our part. The bodhisattva path is not merely contemplative. The bodhisattva is called to act, to restrain evil, and to promote goodness.