Some say...

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Some say life is its own purpose,

but this is not the final understanding.

 

Free of purpose and purposelessness,

Free of life and death,

Free of freedom and bondage;

 

Free of words, the final understanding

cannot be written in words,

nor can the final understanding be understood.

 

Free of understanding and ignorance,

free of manifest and unmanifest,

the final understanding cannot be understood.

 

It is not 'is' and it is not 'is not'

It is not emptiness and it is not fullness

It is not form and it is not formless

It is not personal and it is not impersonal

It is not worthwhile and it is not worthless.

It is not useful and it is not useless.

 

It is not comprehensible to thought.

It is not comprehensible to feeling.

It cannot be written in words.

It cannot be spoken out loud.

It cannot be here or now.

It cannot be past or future.

 

Beyond duality and nonduality,

the final understanding is finally

incomprehensible.

 

It cannot be communicated, it

cannot be transmitted, it cannot

be understood, it cannot be described.

 

It cannot be anything, and

it cannot be nothing.

 

It cannot be 'it', nor can the

final understanding be 'this',

nor can the final understanding

be 'that'.

 

It cannot be self nor can it

be " Self. "

 

It is not inside and it is not outside.

It is not " within " and it is not without.

It is not West, East, North or South.

 

These words say absolutely nothing.

The final understanding is not

absolutely nothing either.

If you are looking to these words

for the final understanding, you

will perceive only nothing.

 

The final understanding is not

even " beyond, " for " beyonds "

go on beyond all beyonds,

until beyonds finally merge

beyond all possible beyonds.

 

If you are looking for the Final Understanding

You will never find it.

 

If you are looking in these words,

you are missing it utterly.