From Towards Atman
(ie. one existential no-thing.) This discovery certainly corrects the vision and would seem to turn it upside down, or in Lao Tzu terms, turn it the other way around, as Alan Watts would so precisely and accurately put it. Major religions have been the cradle of mystical truths though they have often fought against it in their own particular midst. The Sufis were persecuted and murdered in history by mainstream Muslims and Christians did similar things to their mystics. - A monk in the 16th century was put to death for insisting that all things are one! Much as Jesus himself did, being executed for blasphemy. Jesus, not declaring a new theology but simply what he felt. For me, personally, Jesus is the embodiment of true mysticism. His cosmic consciousness enables him to the title of cosmic empathiser.
Alas! As many writers have said, now and in the past, Christianity as a monotheistic religion has been a disaster, a classical
example of the folly of following the teacher and not the teaching.
Little more needs to be said on this save to say that such deep wisdom and truth is available to the world, yet mindless fundamentalism still reigns, opposite high liturgical practices. The mess speaks for itself. I think of Jesus's words, "you search the scriptures daily for you think you have life in them".
Scripture is as much idolatry as any other kind when it becomes biblical worship. Monotheistic religions always draw on divine transcendence while ignoring immanence. The negation of all idolatry, both tangible and intangible, and certainly biblical idolatry must be transcended if the mind is to be a light unto itself, so that it may be aware of the various spiritual paths that lead us on to self and no-self enquiry, for it is there and only there, that the sacred ground of all might be encountered. Alan Watts is correct to say with his wonderful book title, (and I commend it to all) "The book on the taboo against knowing who and what you are", a taboo that we are unaware of or that we tacitly conspire to ignore.
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