The Buddha, Joseph Campbell, real and unreal, sin, Luther, and the Ouroboros

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Describing the Buddha, Joseph Campbell writes: “…he is that one who is no longer anyone at all; nor, indeed, had he ever been anyone at all, since, as taught in his illumination: “All things are without a self.” (The Mythic Image, p493)

It does not make sense that life is both unreal and real. But it is. One must leap beyond the mutually exclusive perspective and see opposites as co-existents, divided and together, separate and one, opposed and attracted, attached and indifferent, each antipode a mate to its definer, each pair no different than the one.

“Sin braveley.”

            Luther

The Ouroboros loop of the Creator and the Created; the created part cannot catch up to the creator, because it has already been created.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.