The Buddha, effort, and indifference

Pragmatically speaking, since it is impossible to be true in a false paradigm, the only way to be true is ...to not-do; in the absence of 'doing' our 'beings' are no longer identified with the falsity which is everywhere.

Indifference is the only way to avoid the confusion of activity. Without the weapon of apathy we shall forever dwell in the confinement of the self which tries to attain knowledge, enlightenment, or understanding for any such striving merely reinforces the false paradigm.

"Who can fail to see the moment when ...man, lucid and empty, will have no word on hand to designate his abyss? ...On the ruins of knowledge, a sepulchral lethargy will make us all into specters..."

E. M. Cioran (Decay, p137)

"There is nothing to do but slow down, relax, laze, to become one vast transparent eye."

Andrew Harvey, A Journey in Ladakh

“Don’t just do something, stand there.”

Buddhist jocularity

To see the futility and failure of society's goals and struggles is to cease all action directed towards useless goals, and instead to bask in the harmonious, goal-less, worthless, remarkable unity of all and everything; for all striving is a function of the ego, and therefore leads only to the fulfillment of the ego, not to its evaporation and the soul's merging with the One.

In wordless, effortless, idealess attention, we see and become the wordless, effortless, idealess event.

We no longer need to 'do' anything, for we have seen through the eyes of lucid, effortless ignorance.

The Buddha that you are is not male or female, good or bad, real or unreal, oriental or occidental, mind or matter, inside or out. The Buddha is One, beyond all duality and distinction.

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.