Not One; Not Two
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
The following dialogue was extracted
from Fr. Anthony de Mello’s “One Minute Wisdom”:
“How does one seek union with God?”
“The harder you seek, the more
distance you create between Him and you.”
“So what does one do about the
distance?”
“Understand that it is not there.”
“Does that mean that God and I are
one?”
“Not one. Not two.”
“How is that possible?”
“The Sun and its light, the ocean and
the wave, the singer and his song - not one. Not two.”
Much of what the late Jesuit priest
wrote is very much congruent with taswawwuf, that in 1998, 11 years
after Fr. de Mello’s death, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the
same Catholic committee that was responsible for such events as the Spanish
Inquisition, under the leadership of its then Cardinal-Prefect, Joseph Aloisius
Ratzinger, conducted a review. This is
the same Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger who went on to become Pope Benedict XVI. They released a lengthy commentary expressing
concerns about his theology. They
conceded that while there was no explicit heresy, some might be misled into
seeing Jesus (a.s.) was not as the Son of God.
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