Illusion and ignorance

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from Mandala Eight of Self-Knowledge

 

 

Illusion and ignorance

Have no power of their own,

No self-existent continuity,

No real substance,

And cease to appear

If one examines them.

Differentiation is

Born of imagination;

Imagination has

Neither birth nor existence.

It is not that the Self-Realized

Do not see the world.

They see that, truly,

There is no world.

The Self alone is,

Alone is real.

All else is imagination,

Illusion and ignorance.

 

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Not two,

Richard