Re: Theos-World A Poem and an Explanation
Dec 11, 2004 07:30 PM
by Cass Silva
Said as a true scientific existensialist. If life is so meaningless why not eat drink and be merry
Andrew Smith <aupanishad@msn.com> wrote:
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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