The unknowable miracle of life, and effortless undoing

Once we have forgotten all the false understandings so ubiquitous in the world, and have accepted the unknowable miracle of life inside, outside, and all around us, and we have no clue about what or why it 'is'- then what shall we do? What shall we do indeed, when we know not what to do? The answer is easier than one might think; for, in the absence of a conception of life we shall no longer do, instead we shall simply be. Which is to say that, if all of our actions in the world have been based on manifold misinterpretations of ourselves, then, just as we got rid of false understanding by forgetting, in order for us to continue to 'undo' these errors, we must also stop operating within the conceptual framework these misinterpretations created; we must stop 'playing house', so to speak, and we do that by growing out of the illusion which binds us, and instead re-inhabiting the true mansions of our limitless beings; that is, if our actions have been false because they were based on the false premises of society, then the only thing to do is ...to not do

And so, just as ‘epistemological’ emancipation is not about knowing, ‘existential’ emancipation is not about 'doing', but about 'undoing'. This amounts to ignorant effortlessness.

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These excerpts are taken from unpublished chapters from

THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas