Henry Miller, the Astavakra Gita, the Tao, and emptiness

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“My plan, then, in so far as the negation of all effort and purpose may be said to be a plan, is to stop evolving, to remain what I am and to become more and more only what I am- that is, to become more miraculous.”

Henry Miller

"This awareness of the truth makes an eloquent, clever, energetic person dumb, stupid, and lazy, so it is avoided by those whose aim is enjoyment and praise."

Astavakra Gita

Spectacle is a smoke-screen, a distraction, diverting one from the ubiquity of emptiness upholding the form.

            Only actions devoted to the subtle, eternal emptiness which is the Tao do not draw one into the confines of the paradigm.

            Devotional doing is the only act worthy of being done. All else is a snare.

            The subtle Doer and gross doing unite in the stillness of the motion.

This is the union of inside and out.

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.