Chapter 4

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Lyrics 4

 

 

1. Nothing can be added or subtracted from the radiant sufficiency of

Unconditioned Mind. There's no place like Home! Still, words and

teachings can't reach it, nor can worshipping with smoke and flowers.

Forget everything you may have heard or thought about it. Forget

everything. Forget forgetting. That's worship! Welcome Home!

 

2. At Home, nobody's lost or found, pure or impure, united or

separated -- never other than, aware space itself. Even the most

heartfelt submission to any otherness may be seen as arising from a

subtle sense of division within a fading dream. Let it go. Wake up –

You're Home!

 

3. "Does the world exist, or not?" Rub your eyes! Is there any other

Nirvana than this? That you Are?

 

4. Knowledge and ignorance, birth and death, never had a chance with

me. Who can say if I'm bound or free – I'm Home, what use are such

distinctions?

 

5. No virtue or sin can take root in me, no praise or blame – by

nature I'm Nirvana. I am not the one bowing. I am not the one bowed

to. I have no message or map. No wisdom. By nature, I'm Nirvana. Jai

to That!

 

6. Immaculate innocence am I, neither knower or known, neither cause

nor effect, and yet -- one with all cause, all effect, simultaneously.

 

7. Body/mind/sensation, or no body, no mind, no sensation – what's to

cling to, what's to let go? I'm Nirvana.

 

8. Thus, I surrender Nirvana. I let go. What has been lost, what

found? What has been subtracted, what added? Bliss into bliss, light

into light, Nirvana falls into Nirvana! Jai to That!

 

9. Free from the taint of Nirvana, beyond intelligence or design,

neither wise nor foolish, neither silent nor speaking, neither

reasonable nor argumentative, I am not the one in conflict, I am not

a riddle to be solved, I am what is, simply Is. Is there any other

Paradise than this? Jai to This!

 

10. Relinquishing all effort, naturally, the Happy One sees: all is

originally perfect, even from taint of Nirvana – Free!

 

11. No magic injunction is binding on me. Mind, that carnival of

anxiety, raises no tent in me. No captive animals perform in me, no

ringmaster, no ring, no juggling clown of ego, no circus bells that

bump and ring.

 

12. Some say the world is real, others say it isn't. Some say it's

partly real and partly not, others say it's like a river. What do I

know? I am Nirvana . . . now, not even that. Space-like I am, bliss-

bestowing wisdom I am, immortal I am, and now -- yes, no -- not even

that!

 

13. Crazy mind – why be confused? There is no shadow in this light,

no name for this un-caused radiance, no rhyme or reason for this

mystery I am.

 

14. You are not the body. Beloved, do not fear! Why weep and worry?

Change will not harm you. Shanti, Shanti Om.

 

15. You are not the desire, you are not the grasping, you are not the

holding on – Beloved, do not fear! The Absolute and you are never

two. Shanti, Shanti Om.

 

16. Beloved, the craving for wealth and power only exists in time.

You are timelessness itself, no place for "mine and thine".

 

17. There is no concentrated absorption in the heart, nor anyone to

be absorbed. No heartbeat, no fixation, no great chain of causation,

no open or closed door.

 

18. Really, there is no "you" or "I". No world, no teaching, no

teacher. This is freedom, this is truth.

 

19. I alone am. Where is freedom, where is truth? Where is sacred or

profane knowledge, where is bliss? What is transcendental or

ordinary, mysterious or obvious?

 

20. Beloved, just be.

 

21. Let go of even letting go, then let go of that. Just be.