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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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as long as one is conscious there will
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be pain and pleasure you cannot fight
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pain and pleasure on the level of
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consciousness to go beyond them you must
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go beyond consciousness which is
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possible only when you look at
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consciousness as something that happens
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to you and not in you as something
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external alien superimposed then
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suddenly you are free of consciousness
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really alone
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with nothing to intrude and that is your
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true state
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[Music]
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must one suffer only for one’s own sins
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are we really separate in this vast
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ocean of life we suffer for the sins of
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others and to make others suffer for our
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sins but while life lasts we affect each
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other deeply at the back of every
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experience is the self and its interest
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in the experience call a desire call it
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love words do not matter all suffering
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is caused by selfish isolation by
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insularity and greed when the cause of
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suffering is seen and removed suffering
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ceases to understand suffering you must
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go beyond pain and pleasure your own
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desires and fears prevent you from
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understanding and thereby helping others
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in reality there are no others and by
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helping yourself you help everybody else
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if you are serious about the sufferings
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of mankind you must perfect the only
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means of help you have yourself there is
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no evil there is no suffering the joy of
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living is paramount look how everything
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clings to life how dear existence is
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have a better look at yourself the
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screen is there it does not change the
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light shines steadily only the film in
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between keeps moving and causes pictures
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to appear you may call the film destiny
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parada
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what creates destiny ignorance is the
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cause of inevitability ignorant of what
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ignorance of yourself primarily also
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ignorant of the true nature of things of
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their causes and effects begin with the
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admission that you do not know and start
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from there there is nothing that can
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help the world more then you’re putting
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an end to ignorance then you need not do
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anything in particular to help the world
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your very being is a help action or no
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action
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[Music]
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the very admission I am ignorant is the
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dawn of knowledge
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[Music]
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you know that you do not know
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what is wrong with not knowing you need
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not know all enough to know what you
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need to know the rest can look after
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itself
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[Music]
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once you are inwardly integrated outer
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knowledge comes to you spontaneously at
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every moment of your life you know what
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you need to know in the ocean of the
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universal mind all knowledge is
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contained it is yours on-demand most of
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it you may never need to know but it is
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yours all the same as with knowledge so
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it is with power when the helper is
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selfless and intelligent all the powers
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of the universe are for him to command
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consciousness is power be aware of what
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needs be done and it will be done only
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keep alert and quiet
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[Music]
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once you reach your destination and know
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your real nature your existence becomes
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a blessing to all you may not know nor
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will the world know yet the help
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radiates
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[Music]
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I am very much attached to my family and
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possessions how can I conquer this
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attachment this attachment is born along
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with the sense of me and mine find the
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true meaning of these words and you will
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be free of all bondage you have a mind
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which is spread in time one after
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another all things happen to you and the
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memory remains there is nothing wrong in
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it the problem arises only when the
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memory of past pains and pleasures which
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are essential to all organic life
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remains as a reflex dominating behavior
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this reflex takes the shape of AI and
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uses the body and the mind for its
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purposes which are invariably in search
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of pleasure or flight from pain when you
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recognize the eye as it is a bundle of
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desires and fears and the sense of mine
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as embracing all things and people
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needed for the purpose of avoiding pain
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and securing pleasure you will see that
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the eye and the mine are false ideas
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having no foundation in reality created
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by the mind they rule their creator
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as long as it takes them to be true when
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questioned they dissolve
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[Music]
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for reality to be the ideas of me and
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mine must go they will go if you let
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them then your normal natural state
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reappears in which you are neither the
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body nor the mind neither the me nor the
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mine but in a different state of being
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all together it is pure awareness of
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being without being this or that without
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any self identification with anything in
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particular or in general in that pure
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light of consciousness there is nothing
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not even the idea of nothing there is
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only light
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[Music]
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society will not change by compulsion it
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requires a change of heart understand
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that nothing is your own that all
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belongs to all then only society will
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change the power of a true heart is
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immense
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[Music]
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look at the I M as a sign of love
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between the inner and the outer the real
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and the appearance just like in a dream
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all is different except the sense of I
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which enables you to say I dreamt so
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does the sense of I am enables you to
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say I am my real self again
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I do nothing nor is anything done to me
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I am what I am and nothing can affect me
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I appear to depend on everything but in
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fact all depends on me I do not have the
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feeling that I am talking there is
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talking going on that is all
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I have no objection to the conventions
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of your language but they distort and
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destroy reality a more accurate way of
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saying would have been there is talking
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working coming going for anything to
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happen the entire universe must coincide
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it is wrong to believe that anything in
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particular can cause an event every
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cause is universal your very body would
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not exist without the entire universe
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contributing to its creation and
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survival I am fully aware that things
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happen as they happen because the world
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is as it is to affect the course of
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events I must bring a new factor into
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the world and such factor can only be
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myself the power of love and
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understanding focused in me
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you are like the man in the cinema house
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laughing and crying with the picture
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though knowing fully well that he is all
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the time in his seat and the picture is
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but the play of light it is enough to
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shift attention from the screen to
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oneself to break the spell
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[Music]
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when the body dies the kind of life you
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live now
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a succession of physical and mental
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events comes to an end it can end even
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now without waiting for the death of the
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body it is enough to shift attention to
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the self and keep it there all happens
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as if there is a mysterious power that
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creates and moves everything realize
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that you are not the mover only the
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observer and you will be at peace
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[Music]
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as long as you’re ignorant of yourself
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as the creator your world is limited and
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repetitive you will be afraid until you
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experience freedom and its blessings you
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must be interested without interest
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nothing can be done
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you realize that nothing was ever wrong
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with the world you alone were wrong and
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now it is all over
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[Music]
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are we permitted to request you to tell
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us the manner of your realization
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somehow it was very simple and easy in
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my case my guru before he died told me
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believe me you are the supreme reality
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don’t doubt my words don’t disbelieve me
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I am telling you the truth
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act on it
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I could not forget his words and by not
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forgetting I have realized but what were
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you actually doing nothing special I
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lived my life plied my trade looked
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after my family and every free moment I
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would spend just remembering my guru and
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his words he died soon after and I had
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only the memory to fall back on it was
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enough it must have been the grace and
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power of your guru his words were true
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and so they came true true words always
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come true my guru
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did nothing his words acted because they
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were true whatever I did came from
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within unasked and unexpected
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the Guru started a process without
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taking any part in it put it as you like
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things happen as they happen who can
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tell why and how I did nothing
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deliberately all came by itself the
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desire to let go to be alone
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to go within you made no efforts
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whatsoever none believe it or not I was
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not even anxious to realize he only told
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me that I am the supreme and then died I
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just could not disbelieve him the rest
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happened by itself
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I found myself changing that is all as a
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matter of fact I was astonished but a
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desire arose in me to verify his words I
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was so sure that he could not possibly
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have told a lie that I felt I should
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either realize the full meaning of his
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words or die I was feeling quite
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determined but did not know what to do I
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would spend hours thinking of him and
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his reassurance not arguing but just
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remembering what he told me
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what happened to you then how did you
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know that you are the supreme nobody
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came to tell me nor was I told so
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inwardly in fact it was only in the
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beginning when I was making efforts that
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I was passing through some strange
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experiences seeing lights hearing voices
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meeting gods and goddesses and
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conversing with them once the Guru told
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me you are the supreme reality I ceased
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having visions and trances and became
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very quiet and simple
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I found myself desiring and knowing less
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and less until I could say in utter
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astonishment I know nothing I want
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nothing
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more things may happen to you are you at
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the end of your journey there was never
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any journey I am as I always was
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[Music]
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I used to create a world and populate it
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now I don’t do it anymore
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where do you live then in the void
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beyond being and non-being beyond
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consciousness this void is also fullness
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do not pity me it is like a man saying I
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have done my work there is nothing left
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to do the mind ceased producing events
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the ancient and ceaseless search stopped
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I wanted nothing expected nothing
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accepted nothing as my own there was no
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me left to strive for even the bear
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I am faded away the other thing that I
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noticed was that I lost all my habitual
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certainties earlier I was sure of so
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many things now I am sure of nothing but
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I feel that I have lost nothing by not
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knowing because all my knowledge was
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false
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my not knowing was in itself knowledge
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of the fact that all knowledge is
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ignorant that I do not know is the only
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true statement the mind can make take
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the idea I was born you may take it to
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be true it is not you were never born
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nor will you ever die it is the idea
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that was born and shall die not you
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by identifying yourself with it you
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become mortal just like in a cinema all
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is light so does consciousness become
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the vast world look closely and you will
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see that all names and forms are but
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transitory waves on the ocean of
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consciousness that only consciousness
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can be said to be not its
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transformations
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[Music]
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in the immensity of consciousness a
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light appears a tiny point that moves
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rapidly and traces shapes thoughts and
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feelings concepts and ideas like the pen
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writing on paper and the ink that leaves
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a trace is memory you are that tiny
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point and by your movement the world is
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ever recreated stop moving and there
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will be no world look within and you
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will find that the point of light is the
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reflection of the immensity of light in
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the body as is the sense I am there is
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only light all else appears
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[Music]
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reality is immovable and yet in constant
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movement it is like a mighty river it
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flows and yet it is there eternally what
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flows is not the river with its bed and
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banks but its water
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[Music]
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[Music]
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you do not need help only advice what
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you seek is already in you take my own
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case I did nothing for my realization my
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teacher told me that the reality is
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within me I looked within and found it
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there exactly as my teacher told me to
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see reality is as simple as to see one’s
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face in a mirror
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only the mirror must be clear and
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untainted a quiet mind undistorted by
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desires and fears free from ideas and
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opinions clear on all the levels is
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needed to reflect the reality be clear
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and quiet alert and detached all else
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will happen by itself
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I did nothing it just happened
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I lived my life attending to my family’s
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needs nor did my guru do it it just
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happened
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as he said it would
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[Music]
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all that happens is the cause of all
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that happens causes are numberless the
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idea of a soul cause is an illusion
