Restriction is the word of sin
Why do we always want to compare things with other things? Is there then NOTHING original??? One thing that we must never do in attempting to attain to the Ineffable, (Inevitable) is Restricting oneSelf. It has been said and written: The word of Sin is Restriction. Remember this Truth! Consider Sin. What is Sin? You are sinning when you are doing something outside a LIMIT that has been set. This limit is set by someone, and many (if not all) times it is by us! When you restrict someone/something, it is most likely that it is going to want to "break free" by sinning! It is like restricting yourself from going to the toilet, and then later being surprised to find yourself incapable in keeping the tears from flowing out of your eyes! "Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby cometh hurt. But whose availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!" "Every number is infinite; there is no difference."
The Goal we are attempting to attain is to be our True Self. God Our True Self has NO limit! So why on earth do we think that "limitation" must be a categoristic of It?? There is no right or wrong, there is only Actions. Actions that Causes "favourible" or "infavourible" Effects, according to our tastes. Do you think God is male, all Goodness, incapable of Anger? Yes, you are only "thinking" and not Knowing. By saying God is male, we Restrict (Him) from having feminine qualities! So therefor anything feminine is not God!? Untrue. By saying ANYTHING of God, is to limit Him! Therefor I am abstaining from any further Attempts to "grasp" Him. One can only know God when you are Him. When you are your True Self.
Anything that is measureable has a limit. God is not measureable, and therefor has no limit. God is ALL and NOTHING. Ain Soph Aur. But enough!
Consider words, spoken or written. They have so much limitations that it is Impossible to use them to describe anything Truthfull, espesially Things of Divine Nature! I personally believe in the eloquence of Silence. Nothing False can penetrate Silence. Silence is. It can not be compared with anything else. It just is. When we describe, or rather TRY to describe, certain things, we normally compare that thing to something else! So what ARE we describing anyways??? This or that? It is quite hard to describe something without comparing it with something else. And even then, when we manage to discribe the thing in Itself, we use mere Words to do it!!!
As Words are a disease of Thought, so are Thought a disease of the Divine. That is why, in meditation, we try to still the mind. So there is only True Silence; TRUTH. We can't get near ANYTHING by observing it in the "normal" sense of the (word)?
So, let us bind nothing; and be chief of ALL
There are some thoughts that one hesitates to bring down into words
As all came from God so must all proceed to God.
ASh
Sin?
07 Jun '05 17:20
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