Stars and planets and moons, journeying from horizon to horizon;
Cycling springs and summers and autumns and winters;
Clocks you watch, watches you wear;
Calendars whose pages turn, ever turn again;
Are tricksters in this three-dimensional, illusory weaving.
Time has never truly passed as you have been conditioned to believe.
* * * *
Suffering is the outcome of attachment to the fictitious mind-body identity.
All endeavors to ease the sorrow of consciousness are ineffectual,
Without the realization of your true indestructibility.
* * * *
Some answers are too large for any questions.
* * * *
Clothing, jewelry, make-up, hair,
Cloak the stark reality of the human body;
The assorted orifices of its physical functioning.
What is beautiful, romantic, and essential to the deluded,
Takes on another appearance when the veil
Of genetic gratification unravels.
* * * *
The tombs in which you cloak your vanity cannot lock out the dust of eternity.
* * * *
Being born into illusion,
Does not mean you must reside there.
You have never been bound by the original separation,
But through your conditioned collaboration.
* * * *
Humanity must accept total responsibility
For its impact on this garden world.
Do not put the burden on god.
There will be no messiah,
Nor hordes of angels to save us.
Each alone must make the paradigm shift.
* * * *
You spend your life believing the part you play,
But contrary to what the senses fool you into knowing,
All your thoughts, concepts, theories, images, hopes, and dreams;
All the kaleidoscoping reflections of those many mirrors passing before you;
All the vain paths to glory you or anyone else have ever concocted;
Have no ultimate reality or lasting importance, whatsoever.
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