Detachment is natural

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From Mandala Five of Self-Knowledge

 

Detachment is natural,

Attachment artificial.

Why pretend that happiness lies

In things external to oneself?

Why pretend that transient things

Will remain to provide one

With what is truly one's own?

Why pretend that things seen

In a dream called waking,

Will even survive a simple

Change of the mind's state?

Change of the mind

Changes all things.

What is present in one state

Is absent in another.

What one is attached to

At one moment,

One cares for not later.

If one can be so detached

Just by falling asleep,

How much more

Can one be detached

If one is truly awake?

Do not be afraid to let go

Of a world that does not really exist.

Natural it is to know happiness within.

Natural it is to be detached

From the transient.

Natural it is to transcend

The three states.

Natural it is to cling not

To their contents.

Detached toward things and actions,

Events and circumstances,

Creating neither expectation nor aversion

In his mind wedded to Truth,

In Union only with the Self,

Being-Consciousness-Bliss Absolute,

The wise one abides

In unwavering equanimity.

Natural it is to abide

As the Self free of delusion,

With neither an " I " to grasp

Nor a thing to be grasped.

Detachment is natural.

 

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Not two,

Richard