Standout Duplicates
Used in “The Stillness Before Time” 2017 Revision/Expansion
When struggle and resistance end,
When surrender to what is, is complete,
You will be the awareness that is home to all.
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Manifestation is simply mask after mask
Disguising an artful, mischievous trickster,
Playing a timeless game of hide-and-seek.
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To maintain any one path most true,
To insist on duality in any way, any shape, any form,
Is to completely misconstrue the relativity of this manifest dreamtime.
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Explore love as much as you might with all your beingness,
It is the awareness within all that is its unfathomable cradle.
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Nothing wrought of this quantum genesis is ultimately real.
Everything is imagined, everything is dreamily timeless.
All indivisibly appearing, all indivisibly disappearing,
Within and without the eternal matrix of awareness.
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The senses tease and taunt you.
They are lies of the delusional mind.
You must ascertain the witness within,
Discriminate the freedom that they cannot,
And know with every particle of your beingness,
That only in the timelessness of awareness are you real.
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To discover your true Self, you must explore your self.
To see the many others, yet see no other, that is the razor's edge,
Upon which all seers timelessly traverse this reverie both real and unreal.
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It is consciousness that suffers, not you.
The awareness is without laws or principles or ideals.
What consciousness believes are but choices founded in delusion.
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When you discover what you truly are, what you truly are not,
What is left but an inexplicable sense of awareness, unchained.
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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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If there is any attachment,
Any desire to be bound,
One cannot discover the ultimate.
Even the craving to be liberated must cease.
You simply become what you are, what you have all along been.
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You are the gold, not the jewelry into which it is made.
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You do not exist in the way you think.
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When one surrenders to insight, eternity emerges:
Infinite, timeless, pathless, unencumbered, serene.
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Continuity is illusion, a subtle trick of memory, of imagination.
The indivisible waves of reality timelessly break ever anew.
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Supreme being, or supreme beingness?
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Some answers are too large for any questions.
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You suffer the linear continuity of time and space
Because your view of awareness is locked
Into a constricted conscious identity
That is not, has never been,
Will never be, real.
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Neither birth nor death can touch what is real.
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What unutterable vanity to believe that this timeless quantum mystery
Needs to be, much less can be, systematized into any so-called religion.
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Words can only feebly point out the one and only way.
The discernment of their meaning is prior to all concept.
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Avoid moral dilemmas and quagmires.
Good and evil are the stillborn of duality.
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Though all that is, is the unicity of the great quantum dreamtime,
Few deeply discern the ever-present, unborn-undying state.
Many are called, few are chosen, fewer still volunteer.
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Any given mythos may try to explain the journey,
But none can convey any to where all paths end.
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Prior to consciousness, prior to the sensory theater,
The stillness before time is what you every moment are.
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Free your Self of the notion of original sin, that you were born evil.
It is nothing more than an idea inspired by ignorance, by greed, by the need to control,
That the pure awareness you most definitely are, did not choose at birth.
There is no sin, no iniquity, only dualistic whimsy.
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The mind-body is a temporal vessel of finite patterning,
In which the infinite has potential to consciously manifest.
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The part is never apart from the whole.