No "object" is Worthy
of wanting need.
No Search is Fruitful.
No pain is Necessary.
No "other" is Worthy of futile seeking-desire and inevitable
emptiness.
Neither attachment Nor avoidance is Right.
No sorrow is Necessary.
No "thing" is More Than Wonderful.
Neither bewilderment Nor knowledge is Free.
Fear itself is Ultimate pain, but it is Utterly Un-Necessary.
Seeking and attaining are (Inevitably) a Total loss, and loss itself
is the Only Constant Discovery in every gain.
Seeking by desiring is (itself), even previous to either gain
or loss, an empty hole of unending darkness (self-Contracted from
the One and Only "All" of the Unbroken and Indivisible
Divine Conscious Light), but seeking-desire is an Illusion of Filling
(and only a Search for possible Fullness), because it is "Filled"
only with mind (and mind Cannot Be Truly Filled, because it is always
"Full" of itself (and the Self-Evidently Divine Fullness
That Truly, and Even Always Already, Fills all-and-All Is "Outside",
or Perfectly Beyond, the Presumed "center" and the Presumed
"bounds" of every one and every "thing").
The knowledge of bewilderment (and Not any Filling-"object"
or Filling-"other") is the only "thing" in mind.
The world of "objects", or "others", or "things"
Already (in any moment) bites, and it Always bites back.
Therefore, Listen To Me (Perfectly), and Hear Me (Perfectly),
and See Me (Perfectly), and Stand Back In Me (the Only One "Who"
Is), and Feel Me (the Only "What" and "Where"
of Is).
To Seek "objects" (and Not To Understand that All Seeking
is Moved by pain) is pain itself, and bewilderment.
To desire "others" or to avoid them (and Not To Understand
that desire and avoidance are Made of sorrow) is sorrow itself,
and dark emptiness.
To Wonder and to know "things" (and Not To Understand
that knowledge is Never Satisfied) is the Essence of fear itself.
The "personal identity", the ego-"I", or the
separate, darkly empty, painful, and psycho-physically self-Contracted
body-mind is Always an Illusion, an Un-Recognized Reflection of
Consciousness (or Feeling-Awareness) Itself—a Mirage of need,
searchfull desirability, and Wonder, Superimposed On Consciousness
(or Feeling-Awareness) Itself by the apparent (and Un-Necessary)
flow of events that (in themselves) are (it Seems) Not Consciousness.
There is Not (now, or Ever) any "personal identity"
(or separate entity of ego-"I"), but Always Only the Ultimate
(and Self-Evidently Divine) Identity, or Non-Separate (and Inherently
egoless) Conscious Light Itself, Always Already Free, One, Indivisible,
Whole, Full, and All Love-Bliss-"Bright". . . .
The Heart Is My Eternal Hermitage, "Where" (Even Now)
the inherently dualistic (or All-the-"Difference"-Making)
feeling of relatedness Is Inherently (Tacitly, and Effortlessly)
Transcended In the Inherently Non-Dualistic (or Inherently Non-"Different",
and Tacitly Indifferent) Feeling of Mere Being (Itself).
Therefore, My Eternal "Blessing-Seat" Is the Heart Itself—Which
Is the One and Only and Inherently Indivisible Conscious Light (Itself).
Beloved, I Am Da—the Divine Giver, the Divine Gift, the
Divine Person (Who Is the Heart Itself), the Divine Self-Condition
(What Is the One and Only and Inherently Indivisible Conscious Light,
Itself), the Self-"Bright" Divine Source-Condition (of
all-and-All), and the Centerless and Boundless Spherical "Bright"
Divine Self-Domain ("Where" I Always Already Stand, As
the Very, and Inherently Perfect, Self-Condition, or Indivisible
Divine Person, of all-and-All).
--Adi Da Samraj, The Lion Sutra
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