Samadhi, Jack Kerouac, forgiveness, autonomy, God, and Ursula K. LeGuin

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“…samadhi ecstasy, which is the state you reach when you stop everything ad stop your mind and actually with your eyes closed see a kind of eternal multiswarm of electrical Power of some kind ululating in place of just pitiful images and forms of objects, which are, after all, imaginary.” Jack Kerouac (DB, p33)

This is a very close description to my experience, which I would not have called samadhi.

Be the father of yourself.

Simply admit what you did

And come back home

To the brotherhood of

Sweet forgiveness.

Grant autonomy to pieces, and also interrelatedness to the whole. Do this though you know it is not possible, and yet it is.

I am a caretaker.

I have seen also why what we call suffering also arises from God, and so I no longer shudder, nor moan, nor muffle a laugh.

“Only too far is far enough.”

                                    Ursula K. LeGuin

“And he smiled then, a smile both sombre and joyous, knowing, for the first time in his life, alone, unpraised, and at the end of the world, victory.”

                                    Ursula K. LeGuin

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.