Beginningless illusion

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from Mandala Eight of Self-Knowledge

 

 

Beginningless illusion:

The world, time, space,

Life, death, objective things,

The mind, ignorance that projects these,

Bondage due to ignorant

misidentification,

And an experiencer of all these;

All are just notions,

Concepts unreal.

Absolute Being alone is,

Imagined as all this.

The past and the future

Have no reality.

The fleeting present moment

Is also an illusion.

Timeless Consciousness is conceived

As time and all that time measures.

When does time begin?

When there was no time.

But if there was no time,

No then or now,

Did it begin at all?

If the beginning of illusion

Is itself illusory,

Did it come to be at all?

Beginningless illusion.

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Not two,

Richard