That which you desire to find

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That which you desire to find

is found by destroying the veil

that seems to hide it.

 

Nome

From Mandala Five of Self-Knowledge

 

 

That which you desire to find

Is found by destroying the veil

That seems to hide it,

The forgetfulness

That overlooks it,

The inadvertent mode

That slips by it.

The tendencies that you examine

In the light of true Knowledge,

Are those from which

You set yourself free.

The illusion dissolves

Into the nothingness that it is,

Its only substance,

For when you hunt for the gloom,

With the light within,

You find only light,

And the gloom remains not.

Examining the bondage,

You find no fetters.

Examining the sorrow,

You find no valid cause.

Examining delusion's dream,

You find no substance, no dreamer.

To control thought or the mind,

Completely and finally,

Realize that such

Has never actually come to be.

Confining concepts are

Like echoes in an empty canyon.

If you do not shout,

How will there be any noise?

So does bondage and its erasure

Pivot on you.

Inquiring to know

What yourself is,

Trace the outer to the inner,

The branch to the trunk and the root,

The objective to the subjective,

And inquire, " Who am I? "

Ignorance will cease,

And you will thus realize

That which you desire to find.

 

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Not two,

Richard