Theos-Talk Archives (December 2004 Message tt00116)

Andrew,
The quote from the Diamond Sutra didnt come through. Don't understand 
the
blending of Buddhism and Islam, one is love all, and the other is an 
eye for an
eye.
Cass


Try seeing with your exoteric eyes and find out what I (and the 
Buddha, and Mansur Al-Hallaj)am trying to say with our esoteric 
eyes. It's not an exoteric "religion of love" against a "religion 
of hate." It's not "religious" at all! It's a unity of the spirit 
that I am trying to portray, something that can be felt but not 
completely understood. Actually, it was not a poem at all: it was 
more of a parable. Hallaj understood "Ana al Haq" ("I am the truth") 
completely like Mahakassapa did when Buddha held up the flower and 
Zen was born. Hallaj on the cross was the "rose" and 
Buddha's "flower" was the crucifixion of the spirit on matter, as in 
Rosicrucian doctrine. Ananada understood the buddha when he said, in 
Korzybski's words, "The map is not the territory." Our words fail us 
when spiritual realities overcome us. Hallaj bled and died and 
Buddha's flower died, but their death's were seed, just as the early 
Christians used to say that "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of 
Christianity." Don't read to see how two exoteric religions 
contradict; read to see how two esoteric spirits arrived at the same 
truth by different means.

Andrew