Practice, practice, practice intensely

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From Mandala Five of Self-Knowledge

 

Practice, practice, practice intensely,

Like a man drowning

Reaching for air;

Drowning in samsara

Reaching for blissful immortality,

Practice, practice, practice intensely.

Effortless certainly is Self-Realization,

Yet if it's not certain,

Practice, practice, practice intensely.

The intensity of Truth shines

As intensity of the practice

To know oneself truly

And to renounce all the unreal.

Practice of Knowledge

Destroys the shadows of ignorance,

Burning brightly and absorbing itself

In the Truth ever present.

Never is there a need

To abandon the practice,

For what seems the means

Is really the End;

The End itself

Manifests as means,

Jnana and jnana,

Knowledge-yielding Knowledge.

Knowledge without practice

Is only momentary insight;

Practice without knowledge

Is repetitive and unclear.

Neither practice nor Knowledge

Is worldly wandering in delusive maya,

Filled with suffering,

Bound in bitter fetters,

Life spent in a dream.

Knowledge practiced

Stands irrefutable,

Shines as direct experience,

And abides as Being.

For the sake of bliss,

For the sake of peace,

For the sake of freedom,

For the sake of Truth,

For the sake of the Self,

Practice, practice, practice intensely.

 

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Not two,

Richard