Love and emptiness, sin, the sinner, the Buddha, Christ, and om

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Love and emptiness for oneness.

            My sin was the belief that I was separate.

To be a ‘sinner’ is without moral quality- it is simply the ephemeral quality of our eternal beings which we cling to at our own perilous expense. To be in ‘sin’ is to not have possession of your eternal being. Sin is separation from the living whole, and that is what we call death. Sin is our death, not our deathlessness.

          The moral aspect of sin- ie. hate, lust, avarice, greed etc.- are but outcomes, not antecedents, to our predicament. A sinner sins, if I might be allowed such a tautology. To collate the qualities of sin is to trap the sinner in the Form of sin, rather than to emancipate their eternal being from death. Thus sin itself is a state of being which is neither dependent on one’s actions, nor independent either. It is only the separation from the whole, of the one involved, the sinner, which creates hell or heaven in the soul. Thus it is only in unseparating ourselves from the whole, in a dexterous maneuver called love, that we walk away from death and back in to life.

Perhaps there is no such thing as perfection, but only the acceptance of oneness. But that means to take on all and everyone, which is to descend into and become the grief and the glory of all that is actual, and then to rise out without leaving it, which his to become the Buddha in the om of the living Christ. Om, baby!

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.