Theos-Talk Archives (December 2004 Message tt00105)

Neo-Heraclitus Sententiae --- 28 Nov 2004

"The Red Sea is our blood"

We are in death in life

There is no "god" that mankind can "know"

"Allah" is the richest conception of a deity

The "conception of deity" is not the "conception of deity"

Even "Allah" is not "Allah"

We cannot "know"

Alcohol is bad for mankind, just as is tobacco

Coffee and tea is the drink of the Submitters

There is no perfect religion just as there is no "god"

The nearest thing to a "god" is DNA 

We only know divinity microscopically, never macroscopically

The "Red Sea" is DNA

"Allah" is the aggregate of DNA

Allah is our (i.e., all living entities’) blood

The "Qur’an" is the most perfect scripture

"The most perfect scripture" is not "the most perfect scripture"

The "Mother Book" is DNA 

Muhammad was indeed the last of the Prophets

"Threats of hell" are for our heedance to be thankful

"Hopes" of Paradise" are to show that we are of the thankful

Lack of thankfulness is the greatest sin

Denial of Allah alone is lack of thankfulness

If we are not "Beneficent" and "Merciful" we are not thankful

"Jihad of the nafs" is none other than thankfulness

"Thankfulness" is not "thankfulness"

The Beneficent and Merciful is not a bloody God

Blood pulses in life

Life is Allah, He the pulse of pulses

He the Life of life

When Al-Hallaj was crucified

When his hands and feet were cut off

Life still lived in him

He told the crowd of those who thought they Submitted

"Ana al-Haq"

He knew that his lifeblood was not the blood of Allah

He knew, too, that Allah was his lifeblood

He whispered, "Oh Allah, if they knew what I know,

They could never shed my blood"

What would we shed our blood for?

My tomcat sheds my blood profusely

I love him still

Love and blood purges our Nafs

Lay not the "Qur'an aside, it is not bloody as the Salafies would have us believe

It is love, the love of Allah toward man

And, yet Allah is so far and so close that we cannot find Him

The Friend is far, but close, Is He not?

"The Diamond Sutra" of Buddhism tells us

That the truth is not the truth, because we cannot "pin down" the Truth

And, yet it exists

What we can "pin down" is not life

It is the death of life

--- Al-Hallaj Kabir Ali

[pseudonym for Andrew W. Smith]



N.B."How can this be? If these Bodhisattvas, Subhuti, should perceive either dharma or adharma, they would think of an ego, a separate entity, a soul or a personality. Therefore the Tathagata has taught this saying with a hidden meaning: 'Those who know that the teachings about dharma are like a raft, should renounce dharma and, even more, renounce adharma.'" 

Buddha asked: "Do you think, Subhuti, that the Tathagata knows any dharma as the ultimate and perfect enlightenment? Has the Tathagata ever set forth such a teaching?" 

Subhuti reponded: "Not according to my understanding of the teachings of the Tathagata. Why? The dharma which the Tathagata fully knows and has set forth can neither be thought nor formulated in words, for it is neither dharma nor adharma." --- From "The Diamond Sutra"

Al-Hallaj Kabir Ali
"May you live in interesting times!"

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