Everything and nothing

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from Mandala Eight of Self-Knowledge

 

 

 

Everything and nothing

The Self is.

Form is the Formless misperceived.

Forms regarded as existent

Cannot be nonduality;

In the Formless,

There can be no duality.

Appearance and disappearance

Of a thing or a thought

Are forms objective,

But the Formless is neither.

Where there is plurality,

One sees only false appearances;

Where there is Nonduality,

One sees clearly and truly.

All this is Brahman;

All is the Self.

Brahman alone is,

Creationless, unmanifested,

All, yet not all.

Not a thing is the Self.

The Self is

Everything and nothing.

 

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Not two,

Richard