God, gravity, the Bhagavad Gita, double entendres, a horse race, the absolute, not caring, and olives

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God is the only thing without gravity, the only thing which neither pushes nor pulls, and therefore cannot be found by seeking, nor lost by running away.

In a way, “what I am doing has nothing to do with me.” Understanding this allows one to ‘give up the fruit of the action’ as the Bhagavad Gita admonishes.

The double entendre of ‘mold’: mold is a ‘form’ used to create things exactly the same, and mold is like mildew. This is because whatever takes on a graven image gathers decay, but a rolling stone gathers no moss.

Like a horse broken out of the starting stall who throws the jockey and then runs at an incredible pace around the course, but nevertheless wins nothing and only succeeds in delaying the real race from which it is now excluded.

Like a jar of olives which appears to be full of brine, but after the olives are removed there is not much liquid after all, so God is filled only with the presence of man, raising the spirit to the highest level.

God is absolute. God allows man to create what happens. But when God desires something to happen, it happens. Absolutely.

The moment you stop caring, you become God.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.