Consciousness alone is the true nature of the mind

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Nome

from Mandala Two of Self Knowledge

 

Consciousness alone is

The true nature of the mind.

Unknown, it seems as if

A mind composed of thoughts.

Thoughts are unreal,

And so is a mind.

Consciousness alone is.

Thought is only Consciousness.

Yet, Consciousness is not thought.

Consciousness is not mere thought.

But is one and infinite.

Indivisible and undifferentiated.

Multiplicity of thought

Is not multiplicity of Consciousness.

Differences of thought

Are not differentiation of Consciousness.

Division of thought

Is not division of Consciousness.

Liberation from thought

Is the innate freedom of Consciousness.

Freedom from thought

Is no mere mental mode,

But identity as Consciousness.

The true cessation of thought

Is the realization of its nonexistence ever,

For Consciousness alone is.

 

As a picture of a lamp

Offers no light,

So no thought of its own

Has any power to know.

Self-luminous Consciousness is

The one light, ever shining,

Infinite, clear, and ever free.

That which knows

The presence and absence

Of thoughts is neither.

Neither obscures or clarifies That,

For That is the sole Reality.

Pure Being and Bliss,

With no mode or modification;

Consciousness alone is.

 

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Not two,

Richard