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What has neither parents nor offspring
yet knows existence as its family tree?
.
What has never had a mind to ‘make up’
yet sees everything directly and intimately
and acts freely, without choice?
.
What has no body, no form
yet the ten thousand things
and the ten thousand no-things
fit it perfectly?
~
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Beliefs are like hookworms on the brain. Firmly and deeply embedded into the bio-computer, they both feed on it and distort its functioning.
The most pervasive and destructive hookworm is the ‘me’ concept – it’s the motherworm and fatherworm in one fat wriggler.
To attempt to extricate it is to assist its replication. It grows new heads and tails; mutates with amazing skill.
Waking up to the workings of thought is the only remedy. When it’s seen that what one took oneself to be as an independent self-existent ‘person’ is a bundle of thoughts wearing a different barcode every time you turn around, everything changes.
It’s a seeing that’s fatal to all brainworms.
~
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the apparent, accepted, assumed (and therefore experienced) self
is nothing more than a constellation of attributes
– all acquired –
around an uninvestigated thought
how it comes to be,
how it can be transcended,
and what might occur when it goes,
are more speculations of that assumed self
imagine! – the entire citadel of a self
rests upon a figment of the imagination!
seen with savage directness, the citadel dissolves –
it was merely a miraculous mirage
only naked inescapable Awareness remains
~ ~ ~
a silver shimmering silence sings
through this spacious beatland
called body:
it is the Word of the Great Light
echoing throughout infinite Emptiness
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echoes from emptiness 