Since the dawn of consciousness, mind has grappled,
With the mystery of birth and death, creation and destruction.
It has used every device to explain that which is beyond all description.
Only in complete surrender to the awareness prior to thought's linear conceptions,
Can there be any insight into the choicelessness of the eternal indivisibility.
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Unconditioned, immutable, changeless, untamed, amoral, lawless,
Unburdened, nameless, imperishable, timeless, formless,
Eternal, sovereign, total, absolute, supreme.
Apt descriptions of those rare few,
Who discern and reside in the immortal origin.
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There are teachers at every turn.
Be watchful, they take every form.
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In the struggle with the indivisible nature, you must lose to win.
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The frailties of all life forms are within you.
Your empathy and compassion are warranted.
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No one can tell you what truth really is.
You must discern and explore it your Self.
You must also grasp that it is very much akin,
To fine dry sand in loose fingers on a windy day.
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The eternal quest for understanding,
For emancipation from that which is known,
Is a convoluted, subtle, puzzling, chess-like maze,
A timeless game of strategic and tactical finesse,
Which only the most earnest discern and mate.
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Words, concepts, similes, metaphors, analogies, parables,
Are teaching tools, study guides, not ends in themselves.
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Everyone has a mindset, a filtering process that interprets,
The reality appearing to appear about them.
The challenge is discerning the relativity of all experience;
That everything is temporal, ephemeral illusion, nothing more or less real;
That, from beginning to end, each and every moment, is but the fleeting dreamtime of awareness.
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