My Princess, she is unbelievable! She doesn't like Heidegger, should be like that because when I was in the kitchen yesterday, she seemed that was so busy with the book, "Being and Time" I am glad I caught her and then she stopped....Ironically can be said this too, we are both eating philosophy of "Being and Time"... Heidegger probably smiles us from the sky. I have been studying for a long time about being and time, at the end there is someone who knows what to do :) (not mean myself... )
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Heidegger's Mystical Gnosis
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All That Is
IS.
Is that not the Greatest
Mystery of All,
For All?
The two ways to Philosophise:
Fearfully or Fearlessly.
Facing or Fleeing the
Fact of things BEING.
The Great Wonder.
That things are.
At all.
Not What,
How or‘Why’ they are.
THAT they are.
That they ARE.
That things,
Anything,
IS.
THAT things are
Has no ‘Why’
For an answer.
Those who ask ‘Why’
Do not know that
Their very question
Is a fear of the THAT.
The Great Fear.
The thought of nothing
Being at all.
It takes
Fearlessness
To confront the Great Fear,
To face the Great Question.
To wonder…to just
Consider the possibility
Of things NOT Being.
Only such fearlessness
Can open us to the
Great Wonder…
That All
That Is,
Anything
IS.
We cannot BE
the beings that we are, unless
We recognise the true ground of our Being.
That ground does not lie in What,
Who or How we are.
It lies in THAT we are
- in BEING as such.
Our Being can have no ultimate ground in
Any thing or any being that ever was or is,
For any such thing or being is grounded in
Its own ISNESS or BEINGNESS
– in BEING.
We cannot BE
the beings that we are, unless
We recognise that BEING is our ground, and
That BEING, as simple BEINGNESS
Has NO Ground, no Why.
The truth of our being is that
BEING alone is our ground, and that
That ground is in turn a Groundless Ground,
A Ground with no Ground
In any being that ever
Was or Is.
Only through Gnosis,
Only through
Knowing
The TRUTH of our Being
Can we truly BE the beings we are.
The truth that BEING is a Groundless Ground
That it is therefore an Abyss.
That it has its only Ground in
The Abyss of NON-Being.
Only they who can bear
The Truth of BEING
Can truly BE the beings.
For it is the Truth of BEING
That bears forth all beings.
And lets them BE.
The Meaning of BEING is to BE.
BEING, we can feel the Truth of BEING
Shining forth through every single being.
Filling us with the Meaning of
ITS Being;
The shimmering, quivering radiance of its own
Unique way of BE-ING,
Of standing out and EX-isting,
Of being borne forth and of Bearing itself forth as a being.
Beings – not owning but
Enowned by BEING.
GNOSIS - not knowing but
Enknown by its Mystery.
By the One that is No One.
How then can we comprehend this One that is
No-One,
That withdraws from our every attempt to grasp it as
Some One,
as any being or ‘god’ that
WAS,
IS or
Might BE?
How can we comprehend this One
That is not One among Many,
This One that has no Other, for
All That
Is IS its Other, just as
IT is its Mother?
How can we comprehend the sheer
Otherness of this ‘God’?
“The totally other over against gods who have been,
especially over against the Christian God.”
A ‘God’ whose very withdrawal from presence
AS a being,
Is the condition for the presencing of
ALL beings – their BEING.
Only as that ‘God’ who, in withdrawing from presence, withdraws
INTO presence as
All That Is,
All Who ARE.
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Only as that ‘God’ who, in withdrawing from presence,
First MAKES ROOM for beings to BE,
first clears a Primordial ‘space’ of BEING in which they can BE.
Only as “The Open”; that primordial “Clearing” in which
All beings first come to presence and come to BE,
and in which they can shine forth and ring out as what and who They ARE.
Only as the “The Unground”; that bottomless “Abyss”
Into which the very BEING of beings withdraws.
Only as that ‘God’, which in making Room for beings to be,
Not only withdraws from BEING, but draws us with it,
Draws us deep down into the dark womb of all beings:
That Womb which IS only because ‘to be’ means ‘to dwell’.
To be ever borne and sent forth from it,
Whilst never ceasing to abide within it.
That Womb which first makes Room, clearing and holding open
The primordial space for beings to BE; that womb also receives
ME, as it receives YOU, receiving
All That Is into the All-Encompassing Space of its Embrace.
“A space is something that has been made room for,
something that is cleared and free, namely within a boundary…
A boundary is not that at which something stops,
but as the Greeks recognised,
the boundary is that from which something begins its presencing …
Space is in essence that which lets into its bounds.”
The One that is No One is what most fully takes us into itself and
Into our own source as Beings; letting us into its infinite bounds.
It is what both receives and draws us
OUT into the vast, quivering Expanse of The Open,
and at the same time draws us deep down INTO
that which first holds it open; taking us back to our true Home
- that Great Mystery in which we Dwell,
And through Dwelling, ARE.
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