Clarice Lispector, the Tao, God, and purity

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“One way of obtaining is not to search, one way of possessing is not to ask; [but] simply to believe that my inner silence is the solution to my- to my mystery.”

Clarice Lispector (The Hour of the Star, p14)

            The desire to strive, to understand, to find truth, God, the Tao, or what have you, ends up as the functional inability to finding such.        

            The mind doing the seeking is seeking within the false paradigm, and therefore is not open to finding that which cannot be looked for; no matter what the mind is seeking, it will never find that which cannot be sought.

            This is the paradox of the Tao.

            To be in Tao is not to arduously seek, but instead to effortlessly be.

            Now there is only a singular purity, an all-pervading peace, a reactionless, fluid, absoluteness, a cosmic birth and integration into the unity of etheric non-division. 

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.