awendofpurpose

        What's the Glory of God?  Well, they weren't quite sure.  

        I'll tell you what it is.  In Heaven, all of those angels are gathered around the Glory of God.  That is to say the witch than which there is no witcher.  Catholics call it the beatific vision.  The Jews call it the Shakina.  They're all of those angels and they're standing around it and they're saying HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH!  

        HALLELUJAH means nothing.  They're just having a ball!  See, that's what happened in the beginning.  When god created the universe it was created like all stars, all planets, all galaxies.  They're vaguely spherical.  He created this and he said, "Have a ball."  But before he said that he said, "You must draw the line somewhere."  

        That was the real thing he said first before let there be light, that came later.  First thing was You Must Draw the Line Somewhere.  Otherwise, nothing will happen.  

        You know, you have to have The Good Guys and The Bad Guys and you gotta have this and you gotta have that.  The black, white, light and darkness. You must draw the line somewhere.  

Now, here's the choice then.  Are you going to trust it or not?  If you do trust it you may get let down.  This it is yourself, your own nature and all nature around you.  You're gonna be mistakes.  But if you don't trust it at all you're going to strangle yourself.  You're going to fence yourself around with rules and regulations and laws and prescriptions and policemen and guards, and who's going to guard the guards, and who's going to look after Big Brother to be sure that he doesn't do something stupid?  

No go.  First thing, I get annoyed with somebody in the audience.  I'm going to throw this ashtray on them.  But, I don't want to hit my friend sitting next to that person.  I want to be absolutely sure that this ashtray hits that individual, so I don't trust myself to throw it.  I have to carry it along and be sure I hit that person on the head.  See, I don't throw it because I can't let go of it.  To throw it I must let go of it.  

To live I must have faith.  I must trust myself to the totally unknown.  I must trust myself to a nature which doesn't have a boss.  Because a boss is a system of mistrust.  That is why Lau-Tzu Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not lord it over them