Transcendence instructions: no effort, no mind

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Pull away; set the contents free, do not recognize the form. Disgorge the centre, burn the fences down. Start again; not I, not not‑I, not this, not not‑this. Stop believing things are what you believe they are. Subjectify the object, objectify the subject. To be real, be unreal. To be unreal, be real. To detach, attach. To attach, detach. To know, unknow. To unknow, know. Do not be, do not not-be.

Go to where there is no meaning, where nothing connects what you think you are with what you are and what you are not. Sit, without agenda. Try to not come upon a realization. Burn quick the fuel you have come to rely upon. Stop making use of the world. Forget the forgettable. Become stupid. Make the mind new.

Swallow your mind, think with your guts. Watch, but do not know. Intuition knows everything, except that it knows everything. No hypothesis, no method, no conclusion. Do not pray, do not meditate, do not discern. Know mind. No mind. Decomprehend. Know effort. No effort. The point is not to understand, but to not misunderstand. Let the dream continue. Be strong and humble in the sight of god.  The mystery incorrigibly unfolds.

No centre, no periphery. Be whole, be hole. Dismiss to embrace, embrace to dismiss. Surrender without surrendering. Reject nothing, affirm naught. Do not take part, do not abandon.

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.