You see why does one cling to God for
safety of course you want to say
something you want to save yourself I
don't care what you mean by saved
whether it just means feel happy or feel
that life is meaningful or you know
there's somebody up there who cares
so one claims and if you don't cling to
God you cling to something else the
state money sex yourself power these are
all false gods but there has to come a
state when clinging stops and only then
does the state of faith begin people who
believe in God don't have any faith as
they want something to hold on to so
real faith is where you do not hold on
to anything anymore in the Christian
tradition this is called the Cloud of
Unknowing
there is a book at that written by a
14th century British monk anonymous and
he got it from dionysius the areopagite
who assumed the name of some paul's
athenian convert he was a syrian monk
living in the 6th century both meister
eckhart said thomas aquinas john SCOTUS
original and many other great medieval
theologians studied dionysius the
areopagite
he wrote a book called the theologian
Mystica in which he explains that in
order to come to full union with God you
must give up every conception of God
whatsoever and he enumerates
don't think that God is oneness or three
knees or unity or spirit or any kind of
anything that the human mind can
conceive he is beyond all that in what
is called this is called a pathetic
theology this is a Greek term contrasted
with katha thetic when you speak at
ascetically you say what God is like so
this man Dionysus wrote two books one
was called the divine names and that was
pathetic theology the other was called
the mystical theology which is apophatic
cata Phatak what God is like
according to analogy he is like a father
we do not say God is a cosmic male
parent but God is in some respect like a
father like spirit like we say nowadays
like man it's it's like it's raining you
know there's a certain relativity to
that statement so this is the the
catatonic language the apophatic says
what God is not and all those
theologians in the following of Dionysus
said the highest way of talking about
God is in negative terms just as to use
Dionysus his own image when a sculpture
makes sculptor makes a figure he does it
in Kali by removing stone taking
something away so in the same way son
Thomas Aquinas said because God by his
infinity exceeds every idea to which the
human mind can reach the best way to
speak of him is by remotion that is to
say by removing from our view of God
every inadequate concept this is what
the Hindus call neti neti saying of the
brahmana of the supreme reality it is
not this it is not this but this
intellectual operation of destroying
concepts must go hand in hand with a
shall we call it psychological operation
which is ceasing to cling to any image
whatsoever or simply ceasing to claim
now why
well because there's no need to there is
no need to cling because when you were
born you were kicked off a precipice and
it was a big explosion a lot of other
things are falling down with you
including some pretty large lumps of
rock one was called the earth and it
won't help you to cling to the rocks
when you're falling off the precipice
they give you an illusion of safety but
everything is falling it's falling apart
that's what the ancients said when all
is transient cantare all flows in the
words of Heraclitus and you can't cling
to anything it's like grabbing at smoke
with a non-existent hand that's about
all all the clinging will ever achieve
all it does it make people anxious so
when you come to the realization that
you cannot cling to anything that there
is nothing to cling to their transpires
an inner change of consciousness which
we can call either faith or letting go
and then suddenly the thing hits you in
sanskrit they put it this way tattva
massey means literally that our Tao or
as we would say you're it and if you are
God then you can't have an idea of God
any more than you can chew your own
teeth you don't need one the Sun doesn't
need to shine on itself knives don't
need to cut themselves your eyes don't
need to look at themselves what color is
your head - your eyes
doesn't black as it can't see anything
not attract the way it feels inside your
head is what you call what it looks like
outside all these things you see outside
are states of the nervous system in the
brain and how it feels that eye looks
inside the head and you said well I
thought that was what was outside true
in same way when the Zen master suddenly
discovered that carrying the pail with
water in it was a miracle he discovered
that he realized there isn't anything
except God and by you don't if you
really know that to see you don't need
to have a religion but you can have one
because it's a free world I mean if you
want to try and express this in some way
and all religion it's to gravy after
that see any outward manifestation of
religion you know it's like a man with
lots of money making some more only it's
quite unnecessary but so in according to
the very best theologians it was never
necessary for God to create the world
didn't add anything to him he didn't
have to do it he was under no compulsion
so he did it out of what
Dionysius the Areopagite calls epoch
Leary's or we would and resided hyper
clearings super fullness in other words
for kicks I mean you know we don't we
don't like to using that language but
it's completely contemporary and exactly
right that's what the Bible says only
puts it in a more sedate way it says His
Majesty did it for his pleasure well
that's the way you talk about somebody
who's the king this critic Trotter said
you know we are not amused
and it says in the book of the Proverbs
that where the divine wisdom speaks and
speaks you see as an attribute of God
standing aside from God sort of
primitive polytheism and wisdom says
that in the beginning of the world her
delight was to play before the divine
presence and especially to play with the
sons of men the word in Hebrew is play
but in the King James translation it is
rejoice because that is a more sedate
word in play you may rejoice in church
but not play you may not have fun in
church but you may rejoice see the
difference so then I the the point of
the matter is then there was no reason
to make the world and it was done for
making celestial whoopee
that's why the angels are laughing they
just splitting their sides only when you
hear it in church everybody's forgotten
what Alleluia means it's lying don't you
see Alleluia hallelujah it's like you
know it's just verbal and it's like
birdsong birdsong isn't about anything
it's just sofa clicks why do you sing
why do you like dancing
what's music for that's what this
hallelujah is so when nothing is being
chanted when one gets to that point
everything blows out is what's meant by
Satori in then sudden awakening and you
suddenly see good heavens what was I
making all that stuff about because here
we are so what we've been looking for
all time it's right here
and that's it that's the thing and you
realize that it would you any you
basically through and through are all
this only you've got into a kind of a
funny illusion I think that we get into
that illusion within rather a
complicated way through our upbringing
as children because of that many little
children know from the beginning what
it's all about
only they haven't got words to put it in
see that's the whole problem with child
psychology well child psychologist is
ideally looking for is an articulate
baby it can explain what it's like to be
a baby never get there by the time your
teeth by teaching the child to speak you
mess it up you give it this language and
you can't think big thoughts like that
with this funny limited language
especially with the words they start
children out with and then finally when
they've got the first thing completely
hypnotized they tell it the most
preposterous things they tell it that it
must be free they say to you you child
are an independent agent and you're
responsible see now therefore we command
you to love us and you in other words we
require that you do something which will
please us only if you do it voluntarily
that is do you want the people of mixed
up
so but I'm afraid you see that the new
theology isn't onto this the new
theology really is serious about there
not being regard and that the universe
is therefore a rather pitiful
predicament in which we caught us and
compensations but what all this is a
continuation of the 19th century
philosophy the fully automatic model
which is that this is an essentially
stupid universe it's an it's a mechanism
it is a gyration of blind energy in
which human intelligence and values
happens to be a fluke and a rather
uncomfortable one because Nature doesn't
give a damn about us and so we have to
fight it and now all that is pure
mythology is grossly unscientific neatly
and but most people believe it it's
common sense for today but what an
opportunity though there is in the new
theology and in this whole ferment going
on to get them to see this other point
of view and realize that when you get
rid of God
you are all you are doing is you're
destroying an idol and all idols must be
destroyed respectfully not like those
wretched Puritans who went around
destroying all the saints figures and
the stained glass in the medieval
churches that was disrespectful
iconoclasm respectful iconic answer
would be for example every Easter Sunday
the Bible should be ceremoniously burned
because if Jesus is truly risen from the
dead you don't need the Bible anymore
he's around available you need the books
to plan it up ceremoniously with great
respect because certainly God doesn't
take himself seriously if he did I
shudder to think what would happen
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