As a daydream lasting but for a moment

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from Mandala Eight of Self-Knowledge

 

 

As a daydream lasting but for a moment;

As hallucination,

And a mirage,

Regard all that appears,

All that is manifest.

All thought is only

An empty echo;

Regard the world

As its dream.

Consider the world

To be a dream

And discover the absence

Of a dreamer.

The bubble of illusion

Has no substance.

No world is there,

No external thing,

And there exists not anyone

For whom such could be.

The entire universe is,

Indeed, in the mind,

Yet the mind, itself,

Does not exist.

As in a dream

Conceptions of inner and outer,

Seem as one's thought

And external sensing,

So, in this dream-like

Waking state illusion

Do such appear,

Only a dream,

All in the mind.

One thing invisible

In all this illusion

Is alone real,

Alone constitutes all,

As the Consciousness is

In a dream invisible

Yet alone truly present,

Know the world

To be unreal,

Yourself not a character in it,

And the dream of delusion is over.

Birth after birth,

Death after death,

Ages and worlds,

The gross and the subtle,

Beings without number,

Experiences uncountable,

In the Light of Reality are

As a daydream lasting but for a moment.

 

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Not two,

Richard