Capturing birds, spirit entering matter, existence, and isness

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The best way to capture a bird is to record it singing and then to play it’s song back at it. Soon the territorial instinct brings it forth, violent and exposed, chasing its own echo to its doom.

The interpenetration of spirit into matter is not a conceptual event, but a sublime, ultra-sensual commingling which dissolves the separation of hardened form into the fluidity of living sameness.

The multiplicity of phenomena, the differentiations of isness, are, unarguably, "different". However, existence itself creates a fundamental similarity amongst everything that "is" which infinitely outways their apparent differences; the manyness of the one. That is: the similarity of isnesses, because they "are", practically negates any departmentalizing into recognizable categories. Difference is sameness observable.

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.