TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fineprint:
Voice recordings by PhilPhilms
with his permission via Facebook from April 13, 2019.
Original text from Philip Evan Cowlishaw:
“I do not own the rights to this book.
This is for educational purposes only.
Thanks for this beautiful music.”
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past and future are in the mind only
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I am now
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[Music]
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my world is real true as it is perceived
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while yours appears and dissapears
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according to the state of your mind your
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world is something alien and you are
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afraid of it
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my world is myself I am at home
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as long as the mind is there your body
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and your world are there your world is
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mind made subjective enclosed within the
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mind fragmentary temporary personal
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hanging on the thread of memory I live
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in a world of realities while yours is
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of imaginings your world is personal
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private unsure about intimately your own
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in your world you are truly alone
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enclosed in your ever-changing dream
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which you take for life my world is an
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open world common to all accessible to
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all in my world there is community
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insight love real quality all are one
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and the one is all
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I appear to hear and see and talk and
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act but to me it just happens as to you
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digestion or perspiration happens the
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body mind machine looks after it but
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leaves me out of it I need not worry
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about words and actions in my world
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nothing ever goes wrong
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[Music]
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it is the nature of the mind to roam
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about all you can do is to shift the
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focus of consciousness beyond the mind
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refuse all thoughts except one the
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thought I am the mind will rebel in the
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beginning but with patience and
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perseverance it will yield and keep
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quiet once you are quiet things will
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begin to happen spontaneously and quite
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naturally without any interference on
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your part
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live your life as it comes but alertly
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watchfully allowing everything to happen
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as it happens doing the natural things
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the natural way suffering rejoicing as
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life brings this also is a way pleasure
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and pain alternate inexorably happiness
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comes from the self and can be found in
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the self only find your real self and
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all else will come with it
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[Music]
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it is not your real being that is
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restless but its reflection in the mind
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appears restless because the mind is
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restless the true self stands beyond the
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mind aware but unconcerned
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you are the self here and now leave the
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mind alone stand aware and unconcerned
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and you will realize that to stand alert
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but detached watching events come and go
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is an aspect of your real nature the
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aspects of your real nature are infinite
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and number realize one and you will
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realize all
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[Music]
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want what you have and care not for what
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you don’t have
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[Music]
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the very search for pleasure is the
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cause of pain
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[Music]
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your confusion is only in your mind be
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alert question observe investigate learn
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all you can about confusion how it
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operates what it does to you and others
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by being clear about confusion you
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become clear of confusion
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nothing is permanent all wears out
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breaks down dissolves notice how little
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you remember even when fully awake you
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cannot say that you were not conscious
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during sleep you just don’t remember a
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gap in memory is not necessarily a gap
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in consciousness
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you will be aware that you are asleep
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[Music]
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you want to eternalize the mind which is
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not possible you cannot eternalize a
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transient thing only the changeless is
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eternal
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me if you want peace you must ask with
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an undivided heart and live an
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integrated life detach yourself from all
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that makes your mind Restless renounce
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all the disturbs its peace if you want
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peace deserve it
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seek a clear mind and a clean heart all
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you need is to keep quietly alert
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inquiring into the real nature of
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yourself this is the only way to peace
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stay open and quiet that is all
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the world you can perceive is a very
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small world indeed and it is entirely
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private take it to be a dream and be
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done with it
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[Music]
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in fact all you know is your own private
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world however well you have furnished it
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with your imaginations and expectations
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perception imagination expectation
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anticipation illusion all are based on
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memory there are hardly any border lines
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between them they just emerge into each
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other all our responses of memory
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it is not so bad you do remember a lot
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unconscious memory makes the world in
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which you live so familiar but with you
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it is all with me
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it is almost nothing knowing the world
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to be a part of myself I pay it no more
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attention than you pay to the food you
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have eaten
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I have eaten up the world and I need not
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think of it anymore
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[Music]
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how can I hurt something which is one
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with me
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on the contrary without thinking of the
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world whatever I do will be of benefit
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to it just as the body sets itself right
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unconsciously so am i ceaselessly active
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in setting the world right I am aware of
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the immense suffering of the world much
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more than you are
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I look at it through the eyes of God and
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find that all as well all these
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sufferings are man-made and it is within
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man’s power to put an end to them karma
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is the law that works for righteousness
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it is the healing hand of God
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[Music]
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when you desire the common good the
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whole world desires with you make
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humanity’s desire your own and work for
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it there you cannot fail desires that
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lead to sorrow are wrong and those which
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lead to happiness all right use your
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mind remember observe you are not
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different from others most of their
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experiences are valid for you to think
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clearly and deeply go into the entire
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structure of your desires and their
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ramifications to go beyond yourself you
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must know yourself
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[Music]
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what you are you already are
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by knowing what you are not you are free
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of it and remain in your own natural
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state it all happens quite spontaneously
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and effortlessly you discover that there
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is nothing to discover you are what you
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are and that is all
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you are the pure awareness that
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illumines consciousness and it’s
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infinite content realize this and live
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accordingly focus your mind on I am
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which is pure and simple being
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[Music]
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purify yourself by a well-ordered and
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useful life watch over your thoughts
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feelings words and actions this will
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clear your vision
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every grain of sand is God to know it is
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important but that is only the beginning
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discover all you are not body feelings
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thoughts ideas time-space being and
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not-being this or that nothing concrete
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or abstract you can point out to is you
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[Music]
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go within and discover what you are not
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nothing else matters the world is but a
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reflection of my imagination the world
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is in me the world is my self
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[Music]
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[Music]
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awareness is primordial it is the
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original state beginningless and endless
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uncaused unsupported without parts
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without change consciousness is on
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contact a reflection against a surface a
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state of duality there can be no
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consciousness without awareness but
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there can be awareness without
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consciousness as in deep sleep awareness
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is absolute consciousness is relative to
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its content consciousness is always of
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something consciousness is partial and
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changeful awareness is total changeless
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calm and silent
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it is the common matrix of every
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experience
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interest in your stream of consciousness
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takes you to awareness it is not a new
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state it is at once recognized as the
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original basic existence which is life
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itself and also love and joy instead of
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seeing things as imagined learn to see
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them as they are the thought I am is the
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polishing cloth use it
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I met my guru when I was 34 and realized
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by 37 pleasure and pain lost their sway
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over me I was free from desire and fear
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I found myself a full needing nothing I
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saw that in the ocean of pure awareness
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on the surface of the universal
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consciousness the numberless waves of
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the phenomenal worlds
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arise and subside beginningless Li and
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endlessly as consciousness they are all
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me as events they are all mine there is
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a mysterious power that looks after them
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that power is awareness self life God
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whatever name you give it it is the
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foundation the ultimate support of all
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it is just like gold is the basis for
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all gold jewelry and it is so intimately
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ours abstract the name and shape from
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the jewelry and the gold becomes obvious
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be free of name and form and of the
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desires and fears they create then what
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remains the void remains but the void is
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full to the brim it is the eternal
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potential as consciousness is the
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eternal actual
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when life and death are seen as
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essential to each other as two aspects
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of one being that is immortality to see
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the end in the beginning and the
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beginning in the end is the intimation
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of eternity definitely immortality is
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not continuity only the process of
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change continues nothing lasts
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[Music]
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[Music]
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the mind looks after the body I need not
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interfere what needs to be done is being
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done in the normal and natural way you
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may not be quite conscious of your
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physiological functions but when it
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comes to thoughts and feelings desires
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and fears you become acutely
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self-conscious to me these two are
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largely unconscious I find myself
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talking to people or doing things quite
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correctly and appropriately without
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being very much conscious of them it
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looks as if I live my physical waking
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life automatically reacting
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spontaneously and accurately
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devotion to your goal makes you live a
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clean and orderly life given to search
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for truth and to helping people and
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realization makes noble virtue easy and
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spontaneous by removing for good the
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obstacles in the shape of desires and
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fears and wrong ideas
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a tremendously complex work is going on
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all the time in your brain and body are
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you conscious of it not at all
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[Music]
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what is normal is your life obsessed by
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desires and fears full of strife and
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struggle meaningless and joyless normal
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to be acutely conscious of your body is
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it normal a healthy body a healthy mind
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live largely unperceived by their owner
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only occasionally through pain or
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suffering they call for attention and
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insight
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[Music]
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the entire purpose of a clean and
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well-ordered life is to liberate man
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from the thrall of chaos and the burden
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of sorrow
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[Music]
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once you realize that the person is
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merely a shadow of the reality but not
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reality itself you cease to fret and
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worry you agree to be guided from within
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and life becomes a journey into the
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unknown
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your mind is focused in the world mine
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is focused in reality
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the universe works by itself that I know
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what else do I need to know
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[Music]
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the supreme gives existence to the mind
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the mind gives existence to the body
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[Music]
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however long a life may be it is but a
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moment and a dream
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I am timeless and spaceless nothing
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happens to me everything just happens
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what is beyond both supporting both is
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the supreme state a state of utter
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stillness and silence whoever goes there
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disappears it is unreachable by words or
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mind you may call it God or para Brahman
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or supreme reality but these are names
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given by the mind it is the nameless
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content lists effortless and spontaneous
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state beyond being and not being the
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only way of knowing it is to be it
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God is not running the world all happens
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by itself all is a play in consciousness
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[Music]
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it is what is the timeless reality
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unbelievably hard and solid
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when you believe yourself to be a person
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you see persons everywhere in reality
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there are no persons only threads of
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memories and habits at the moment of
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realisation the person ceases identity
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remains but identity is not a person it
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is inherent in the reality itself the
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person has no being in itself it is a
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reflection in the mind of the witness
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the I M which again is a mode of being
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[Music]
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energy comes first for everything is a
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form of energy
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[Music]
