Ron:
> If happiness and virtue are mutually exclusive, we
have
> to choose between
> the two, and this choice is a momentous one. But
> their incompatibility
> may be only on the surface. Indeed the hope is ever
> recurring that the
> sovereign good includes both, and that there is some
> way of reconciling them.
SA: In this statement right here is the change over,
from s/o or samsara to quality or enlightenment. It
is a matter of what's in the middle. Call it the "/",
on the yin-yang symbol it's a wavy line down the
middle with some yin in yang and yang in yin. It is
the abyss, Kali, Shiva, the Void, it is "?" where
answers are good answers, but the '?' remains, it is
the prong in the middle of the fork, it is the forked
tree in Amerindian where there are two branches on a
tree and the whole tree is not forgotten, in the west
the suffering is guilt-ridden by some G-d in the
clouds, whereas in the east suffering is humanized
into misjudgment and wonder and inspiration remains,
it is Christ saying he is one with G-d, the west
tries to pull the fabric of reality apart declaring a
Fall the east feels the impulse of the universe, the
west says there's the tree of knowledge and all are
barred from the tree of life whereas in the east the
tree of life never left, it is not separation and
sickness, but it is compassion and empathy, and it is
not complicated by two, but made simple by one,
etc..., etc... and as Campbell puts it so well as
follows:
"For the calmly ruthless power of the jungle and
consequent orientation of its folk (the
Proto-Autraloid aborigines of that world of static
vistas, with no history but duration) has supplied the
drone base of whatever song has ever been sung in
India of man {SA comments: this is the chapter on
India, thus, why the India reference, but notice the
metaphysics}, his destiny, and escape from destiny.
New civilizations, races, philosophies, and great
mythologies have poured into India and have been not
only assimilated but greatly developed, enriched, and
sophisticated. Yet, in the end (and, in fact, even
secretly throughout), the enduring power in that land
has always been the same old dark goddess of the long
red tongue who turns everything into her own
everlasting, awesome, yet finally somewhat tedious,
self...
... with respect to Indian mythology,
therefore, is that its deepest root is in the soil of
the timeless equatorial world of the ritual death from
which life proceeds...
...that the interdependence of death and sex,
their import as the complementary aspects of a single
state of being, and the necessity of killing-killing
and eating-for the continuance of this state of being,
which is that of man on earth, and of all things on
earth, the animals, birds, and fish, as well as
man-this deeply moving, emotionally disturbing glimpse
of death as the life of the living is the fundamental
motivation..." [Campbell; Oriental Mythology; Ch. 4]
SA continues: No matter how much one might try
to separate reality, I don't see a gaping hole where I
live, maybe somebody does, and if so I could make a
visit somebody and try to cross the separation gap and
see if I still come out ok on the other side.
SA
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