Astral contact with a living Zen master, wei wu wei, and Christ

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During a certain stage of my spiritual development I received astral contact from a living Zen Master who stated, matter of factly: “This is what this is.”

Wei wu wei, action without action: the ‘doing-without-doing’ paradox of the orient- this is the 'way' we shall live through our unknowable doings- by discarding the 'whey' of our doingless beings. This paradoxical aspect of actionless action is reminiscent of Christ's description of the Kingdom of Spirit, in the Gospel of Thomas, where, he says, simply, "It is of movement, and of rest."(Nag Hammadi Library)

You cannot solve life, you can only dissolve and become life. For this great and enigmatic existence is like a grand zen koan, designed to befuddle into transformation any individual who works so sedulously, so emphatically, so inexorably to unfold its riddle, that they wind up in the end not with a solution, but with not only a mind wiped clean from the impossibility, but also a heart grown turgid with gratitude for the gift of growth, and a belly now full of laughter at their own folly and angst.

The entire spectrum of implausibilities, impossibilities, miracles and dreams, all true in and of themselves but never divorced from mystery.

You cannot study zen and attain zen, because zen is spontaneous, and beyond the reaches of intentional action.

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.