Discern the Nondual

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From Mandala Five of Self-Knowledge

 

Discern the Nondual,

And the dual is not.

Discrimination and renunciation

Of what is unreal

Do not create a dualism,

For how can the release

Of what does not truly exist

Make a dichotomy?

Discrimination and renunciation

Cause one to realize

The blissful, one

Indivisible Reality.

To discern the real as real

And the unreal as unreal

Is wise discrimination.

When so discriminated,

There are not two,

For the real alone is

And the unreal never is.

This is understood

By the seers of Truth.

To experience Reality,

Discriminate between

The real and the unreal.

The unreal is objective, dependent,

multiple,

Transient, changeful, sporadic, and of form.

The Real is nonobjective, nondependent,

nondual,

Eternal, immutable, continuous, and

formless.

The Real knows the Real.

The unreal, being unreal, does not know.

The Nondual is known by the Nondual;

The Nondual does not know the dual.

The dual does not know the Nondual

And does not know itself.

Between the Nondual and the dual,

No contention exists,

For the Nondual ever is

With nothing else with which to contend,

While the dual does not exist.

The nondualist is the Self,

With no ego, no " I, "

No jiva to call himself,

And abides in the hearts of all.

The dualist, with seeming jivahood,

Simply does not exist.

Only the Nondual in you can

Discern the Nondual.

 

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Not two,

Richard