Speaker 1: The original simplicity. Life is simple, being is simple, The
universe is simple. Complexity arises in ignorance and self delusion.
The original simplicity of Lautsu is a term expressive of
the universe as it is and not as it appears.
Looking through the woven network of his own illusions, man
sees interminable complication and unfathomable mystery, and so loses himself
in the labyrinths of his own making. Let a man
put away egotism, and he will see the universe in
all the beauty of its pristine simplicity. Let him annihilate
the delusion of the personal eye, and he will destroy
all the illusions which spring from that eye. He will
thus re become a little child, and will revert to
original simplicity. When a man succeeds in entirely forgetting and
annihilating his personal self, he becomes a mirror in which
the universal reality is faultlessly reflected. He is awakened, and
henceforward he lives not in dreams, but in realities. Pythagoras
saw the universe in the ten numbers. But even this
simplicity may be further reduced, and the universe ultimately found
to be contained in the number one. For all the
numerals and all their infinite complications, are but additions of
the one. Let life cease to be lived as a
fragmentary thing, and let it be lived as a perfect whole.
The simplicity of the perfect will then be revealed. How
shall the fragment comprehend the whole? Yet how simple that
the whole should comprehend the fragment. How shall sin perceive holiness?
Yet how plain that holiness should understand sin? Who would
become the greater? Let him abandon the lesser. In no
form is the circle contained, but in the circle all
forms are contained. In no color is the radiant light imprisoned,
But in the radiant light all colors are embodied. Let
a man destroy all forms of self, and he shall
apprehend the circle of perfection. Let him submerge in the
silent depths of his being, the varying colors of his
thoughts and desires, and he shall be illuminated with the
white light of divine knowledge. In the perfect chord of music,
the single note, though forgotten, is indispensably contained, And the
drop of water becomes of supreme usefulness By losing itself
in the ocean. Sink thyself compassionately in the heart of humanity,
and thou shalt reproduce the harmonies of heaven. Lose thyself
an unlimited love toward all, and thou shalt work enduring works,
and shalt become one with the eternal ocean of bliss.
Man evolves outward to the periphery of complexity, and then
evolves backward to the central simplicity. When a man discovers
that it is mathematically impossible for him to know the
universe before knowing himself, he starts upon the way which
leads to the original simplicity. He begins to unfold from within,
and as he unfolds himself, he unfolds the universe is
himself a microcosm. Cease to speculate about God and find
thee all embracing good within thee. So shalt thou see
the emptiness and vanity of speculation, knowing thyself one with God.
He who will not give up his secret lust, his covetuousness,
his anger, his opinion about this or that, can see
nor know nothing. He will remain a duller in the
school of wisdom, though he be accounted, learned in the colleges.
If a man would find the key of knowledge, let
him find himself. Thy sins are not thyself, They are
not any part of thyself. They are diseases which thou
hast come to love. Cease to cling to them, and
they will no longer cling to thee. Let them fall away,
and thyself shall stand revealed. Thou shalt then know thyself
as comprehensive vision, invincible principle, immortal life, and eternal good.
The impure man believes impurity to be his rightful condition,
but the pure man knows himself as a pure being.
He also, penetrating the veils, sees all others as pure being.
Purity is extremely simple and needs no argument to support it.
Impurity is interminably complex and is ever involved in defensive argument.
Truth lives itself a blameless life is the only witness
of truth. Men cannot see and will not accept the
witness until they find it within themselves, and having found it,
a man becomes silent before his fellows. Truth is so
simple that it cannot be found in the region of
argument and advertisement, and so silent that it is only
manifested in actions. So extremely simple is original simplicity, that
a man must let go his hold of everything before
he can perceive it. The great arch is strong by
virtue of the hollowness underneath, and a wise man becomes
strong and invincible by emptying himself. Meekness, patience, love, compassion,
and wisdom. These are the dominant qualities of original simplicity.
Wherefore the imperfect cannot understand it. Wisdom can only apprehend wisdom.
Wherefore the fool says, no man is wise. The imperfect
man says, no man can be perfect, And wherefore he
remains where he is. Though he live with a perfect
man all his life, he shall not behold his perfection.
Meekness he will call cowardice, patience, love, and compassion. He
will see his weakness, and wisdom will appear to him
as folly. Faultless. Discrimination belongs to the perfect whole, and
resides not in any part. Wherefore men are exhorted to
refrain from judgment until they have themselves manifested the perfect life.
Arriving at original simplicity, opacity disappears, and the universal transparency
becomes apparent. He who has found the indwelling reality of
his own being has found the original and universal reality.
Knowing the divine life within the hearts of all are known,
and the thoughts of all men become his, who has
become the master of his own thoughts. Wherefore, the good
man does not defend himself, but molds the minds of
others to his own likeness. As the problematical transcends crudity,
so pure goodness transcends the problematical. All problems vanish when
pure goodness is reached. Therefore the good man is called
the slayer of illusions? What problem can vex? Where sin
is not? O Thou, who strivest loudly and restest not
retire into the holy silence of thine own being and
live therefrom So shalt thou, finding pure goodness, rend in
twain the veil of the temple of illusion, and shalt
enter into the patience, peace, and transcendent glory of the perfect.
For pure goodness and original simplicity are one