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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neither ignorance nor illusion ever
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happened to you find the self to which
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you ascribe ignorance and illusion and
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your question will be answered you talk
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as if you know the self and see it to be
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under the sway of ignorance and illusion
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but in fact you do not know the self nor
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are you aware of ignorance by all means
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become aware this will bring you to the
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self and you will realize that there is
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neither ignorant nor delusion in it it
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is like saying if there is a Sun how can
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darkness be as under a stone there will
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be darkness however strong the sunlight
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so in the shadow of the I am the body
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consciousness there must be ignorant and
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illusion but why did the body
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consciousness come into being don’t ask
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why ask how it is in the nature of
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creative imagination to identify itself
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with its creations
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you can stop it any moment by switching
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off attention or through investigation
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first you create a world then the I am
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becomes a person who is not happy for
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various reasons he goes out in search of
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happiness meets a guru who tells him you
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are not a person find who you are he
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does it and goes beyond
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why did he not do it at the very start
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it did not occur to him he needed
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somebody to tell him
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[Music]
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why do Indian teachers advocate
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inactivity most of people’s activities
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are valueless if not outright
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destructive dominated by desire and fear
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they can do nothing good ceasing to do
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evil precedes beginning to do good hence
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the need for stopping all activities for
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a time to investigate one’s urges and
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their motives see all that is false in
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one’s life purge the mind of all evil
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and then only restart work beginning
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with one’s obvious duties of course if
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you have a chance to help somebody by
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all means do it and promptly – don’t
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keep him waiting til you are perfect
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but do not become a professional
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do-gooder
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what are the fruits of self-awareness
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you grow more intelligent in awareness
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you learn in self-awareness you learn
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about yourself of course you can only
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learn what you are not to know what you
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are
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you must go beyond the mind
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[Music]
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is not awareness beyond the mind
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awareness is the point at which the mind
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reaches out beyond itself into reality
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in awareness you seek not what pleases
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but what is true
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[Music]
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have you felt the all-embracing
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emptiness in which the universe swims
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like a cloud in the blue sky destroy the
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wall that separates the I am the body
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idea and the inner and the outer will
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become one am I to die physical
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destruction is meaningless
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it is the clinging to sense8 life that
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binds you
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if you could experience the inner void
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fully the explosion into the totality
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would be near
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[Music]
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all changes in consciousness are due to
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the I am the body idea divested of this
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idea the mind becomes steady there is
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pure being
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free of experiencing anything in
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particular but to realize it you must do
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what your teacher tells you mere
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listening even memorizing is not enough
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if you do not struggle hard to apply
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every word of it in your daily life
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don’t complain that you made no progress
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all real progress is irreversible ups
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and downs merely show that the teaching
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has not been taken to heart and
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translated into action fully as long as
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you believe yourself to be a body you
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will ascribe causes to everything I do
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not say things have no causes each thing
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has innumerable causes it is as it is
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because the world is as it is every
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cause in its ramifications covers the
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universe
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when you realize that you are absolutely
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free to be what you consent to be that
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you appear to be because of ignorance or
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indifference you are free to revolt and
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change you allow yourself to be what you
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are not you are looking for the causes
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of being what you are not it is a futile
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search there are no causes but your
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ignorance of your real being which is
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perfect and beyond all causation for
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whatever happens the entire universe is
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responsible and you are the source of
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the universe
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[Music]
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you concentrate you meditate you torture
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your mind and body you do all sorts of
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unnecessary things but you miss the
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essential which is the elimination of
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the person
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[Music]
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to me all delay is a waste of time
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you can skip all the preparation and go
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directly for the ultimate search within
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of all the yoga’s it is the simplest and
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the shortest
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in mobility and silence are not inactive
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the flower fills the space with perfume
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the candle with light they do nothing
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yet they change everything by their mere
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presence you can photograph the candle
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but not it’s light you can know the man
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his name and appearance but not his
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influence his very presence is action
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[Music]
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everybody wants to be active but where
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do his actions originate there is no
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central point each action begets another
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meaninglessly and painfully in endless
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succession the alternation of work and
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pause is not their first find the
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immutable center where all movement
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takes birth just like a wheel turns
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round and axle so must you always be at
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the axle in the center and not whirling
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at the periphery
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how do I go about it in practice
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whenever a thought or emotion of desire
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or fear comes to your mind just turn
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away from it
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by suppressing my thoughts and feelings
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I shall provoke a reaction I am NOT
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talking of suppression just refuse
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attention it has nothing to do with
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effort just turn away look between the
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thoughts rather than act the thoughts
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when you happen to walk in a crowd you
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do not fight every man you meet you just
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find your way between
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[Music]
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when you fight you invite a fight but
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when you do not resist you meet with no
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resistance when you refuse to play the
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game you are out of it how long will it
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take me to get free of the mind it may
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take a thousand years but really no time
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is required all you need is to be in
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dead earnest here the will is the deed
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if you are sincere you have it after all
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it is a matter of attitude nothing stops
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you from being a yani
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here and now except fear you are afraid
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of being impersonal of impersonal being
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it is all quite simple turn away from
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your desires and fears and from the
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thoughts they create and you are at once
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in your natural state
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[Music]
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leave your mind alone that is all don’t
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go along with it after all there is no
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such thing as mind apart from thoughts
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which come and go obeying their own laws
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not yours they dominate you only because
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you are interested in them it is exactly
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as Christ said resist not evil by
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resisting evil you merely strengthen it
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[Music]
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there is nothing to renounce enough if
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you stop acquiring to give up you must
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have and to have you must take better
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don’t take it is simpler than to
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practice renunciation which leads to a
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dangerous form of spiritual pride all
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this weighing selecting choosing
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exchanging it is all shopping in some
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spiritual market what is your business
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there
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what deal are you out to strike when you
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are not out for business what is the use
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of this endless anxiety of choice
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restlessness takes you nowhere something
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prevents you from seeing that there is
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nothing you need
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[Music]
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the sense I am a person in time and
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space is the poison in a way time itself
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is the poison in time all things come to
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an end and new are born to be devoured
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in their turn do not identify yourself
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with time
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do not ask anxiously what next what next
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step out of time and see it devour the
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world say well it is in the nature of
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time to put an end to everything let it
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be it does not concern me I am NOT
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combustible nor do I need to collect
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fuel
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can the witness be there without things
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to witness there is always something to
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witness if not a thing then its absence
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witnessing is natural and no problem the
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problem is excessive interest leading to
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self-identification
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whatever you are engrossed in you take
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to be real
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what is pure unalloyed unattached is
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real what is tainted
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mixed up dependent and transient is
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unreal do not be misled by words one
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word may convey several and even
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contradictory meanings the I am that
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pursues the pleasant and shuns the
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unpleasant is false the I am that sees
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pleasure and pain as inseparable sees
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rightly the witness that is enmeshed in
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what he perceives is the person the
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witness who stands aloof unmoved and
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untouched is the watchtower of the real
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the point at which awareness inherent in
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the unmanifested contacts the manifested
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there can be no universe without the
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witness there can be no witness without
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the universe
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[Music]
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leave the Desirables to those who desire
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change the current of your desire from
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taking to giving the passion for giving
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for sharing will naturally wash the idea
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of an external world out of your mind
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and of giving as well
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only the pure radiance of love will
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remain beyond giving and receiving
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[Music]
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in love there is not even the one how
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can there be to love is the refusal to
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separate to make distinctions before you
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can think of unity you must first create
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duality when you truly love you do not
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say I love you
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where there is man tation there is
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duality
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[Music]
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why don’t you create your own
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environment the world has only as much
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power over you as you give it Rebelle go
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beyond duality make no difference
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between east and west
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[Music]
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do nothing be yourself
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stay out look beyond when you know your
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true being you have no problems
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[Music]
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fearlessness comes by itself when you
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see that there is nothing to be afraid
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of when you walk in a crowded street you
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just bypass people some see you some you
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just glance at but you do not stop it is
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the stopping that creates the bottleneck
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keep moving
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disregard names and shapes don’t be
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attached to them
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your attachment is your bondage
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what should I do when a man slaps me on
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my face you will react according to your
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character inborn or acquired
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[Music]
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a jeweler who wants to refashion an
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ornament first melt it down to shapeless
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gold similarly one must return to one’s
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original state before a new name and
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form can emerge death is essential for
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renewal
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awareness is dynamic love is being
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awareness is love in action by itself
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the mind can actualize any number of
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possibilities but unless they are
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prompted by love
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they are valueless love precedes
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creation without it there is only chaos
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[Music]
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true action does not displace it
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transforms a change of place is mere
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transportation a change of heart is
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action just remember nothing perceivable
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is real active is not action action is
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hidden unknown unknowable you can only
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know the fruit
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is not God the all doer why do you bring
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in an outer Dewar the world recreates
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itself out of itself it is an endless
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process the transitory be getting the
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transitory it is your ego that makes you
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think that there must be a doer you
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create a God in your own image
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however dismal the image through the
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film of your mind
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you project a world and also a God to
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give it cause and purpose it is all
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imagination step out of it
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this is the mystery of imagination that
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it seems to be so real you may be
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celibate or married a monk or a family
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man that is not the point are you a
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slave of your imagination or are you not
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whatever decision you take whatever work
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you do it will be invariably based on
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imagination on assumption parading as
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facts
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Here I am sitting in front of you what
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part of it is imagination the whole of
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it even space and time are imagined does
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it mean that I don’t exist I too do not
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exist all existence is imaginary is
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being too imaginary
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pure being filling all and Beyond all is
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not existence which is limited all
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limitation is imaginary only the
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unlimited is real
