When in my quiet mind I sought to find
the "akashic record" which some seers say
contains all the memories of mankind,
I found only the spiraled double strands of my genome
Passed to me from ten thousand times ten thousand generations
Of those who lived-and-died before me.
I found only Adenine Guanine Cytosine and Thymine.
And it is Me.

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Before I was born there was only star-matter which,
assembled in my mother's womb according to the genome
Passed to me by ten-thousand times ten -thousand generations,
Gave rise to just this body -mind genome
Which never was before and will never be again.

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There is a bridge called "now"
Between "was" and "to be"
That no-one may cross.

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Feel God in your mind
And know that He knows you.
Can you not know Him?

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Beware of deceivers who pretend that verbs are nouns.
Consciousness is is an event; the body-brain-mind acting
In the field of present existence.

Can action be placed in a bottle or caught in a net?
Wherefore can action leave the body-mind-brain
To act apart from the body-mind-brain?

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He is that He is.
You cannot know Him, for He is unknowable.
You cannot speak His name because a name is a word
And He is not defined by words.
You cannot speak of His face because face is a word
And He is not described by words.
You cannot speak His will but in words,
And His will is not defined by words.
He is time. He is energy. He is mass.
No string vibrates, no galaxy glows, no cosmos exists
But by His hand.
He is everywhere; He is nowhere. He is in all, and all is in Him.
You cannot know Him; you cannot escape Him.
He devised the stuff of life by which you live and act,
And no thought or act exists but by His will.
Therefore, eschew words.
Seek Him directly in the wordless quiet
of the mind He has given you.
Seek knowledge; find wisdom; and in all things act with compassion.
In this you are in Him and He is in you.

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There are many lies concealed with words;
There is no truth which can be revealed in words.
All is open and plain in the quiet of a wordless mind:
I exist, but existence is a word. 
I am not a word.
Life is a word. I live, but life is not a word.
I eat, but eat and food are words. I do not eat words
I breathe air, but breathe and air are words. I do not breathe words.
I love, but my love is not a word.
I will die, but my death is not a word.
You cannot define me with words.
I cannot define myself with words.
You cannot limit me with words.
I cannot limit myself with words.
You cannot understand me with words.
I cannot understand myself with words.
Beware of words, for words
must be defined by other words
So that reality is forever undefined.
Therefore know that words are of man.
Reality is of God.
All that is is by his will;
all that is not is by his will.
He is in all and all is in him.
I am in Him and He is in me.
He knew before time began
all that would be,
all that is,
and all that will be.
Therefore, seek not to define God.
Know only that His will has been done,
is being done,
and will be done
so long as He exists,
which is forever.

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I have little trust, less respect, and no patience
for those who seek to woo me with contrived esoteric dogma
intended to imply their secret knowledge of mysterious powers
conferred upon them by transcendental spirits.
They prattle of divine reality, mystical revelations , aura and soul,
and chant their names for God with sonorous vibrations
contrived to expand consciousness to planes of existence to which my soul,
they assure me,may only with their guidance hope to attain.

I cannot beleive that God has need of salvation brokers
or spiritual money-changers.
My body is His temple.
I need no self-appointed intermediaries
To find Him.
I never lost Him.
He never loses me.

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While meditating one day I saw a door
I had not seen before.
Inscribed thereon I saw the word "Mind".
"At last," I thought, " I shall
Enter that realm from which I have heretofore been barred";
But when I opened the door I found not one thing.
In that moment I knew that mind is the activity of my brain,
Each thought a present event occurring and passing
Like a reflection in a mirror, leaving the mirror
without a trace.

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There are no things.
There are only events, for each thing is an event
Which comes into existence, endures for a time
And then ceases to be.
My body-brain-mind is an event.
My soul is an event.
I am an event.

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I cannot find God.
I cannot lose God .
God is immanent in me.

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God has no secrets and speaks no words.
Who speaks for God in words of mystery and private revelation
Speaks falsely to hide truth.
Words are the currency of man's thought,
Subject to much counterfeiting and chicanery.
I am not beguiled by windblown vocal cords
Nor yet convinced by marks on paper.
Mind I have to perceive reality but no mind
To perceive reality in words.
In the quiet of my wordless mind I know reality.
The secret is that there is no secret.

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When I search for God
I find He eludes me;
But He is present.

If I do not search
He finds me
In the quiet of my mind

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Grasping at no-thing
Infinite wordless wisdom
Fills the silent mind.

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Beware of gurus professing belief in realities
That only they can see:
Knowledge consists in the perception of the truth
of affirmative or negative propositions,
while "belief" admits of all degrees,
from the slightest suspicion to the fullest assurance."

Gurus peddling contrived spiritual wares
are worse than money-changers in the temple,
For they steal trust from the credulous.

They cleverly suggest as facts matters which
They do not themselves beleive to be true;

They assert as fact that which is not true, having
no reasonable grounds for believing it to be true;

They suppress facts which honest men would disclose, or
cleverly give information of other facts which are contrived
to mislead for want of communication of those facts;

They make promises that they have no intention of performing;

I say to you that an unqualified statement
by a Guru of that which he does not know to be true
is equivalent to a statement that he knows to be false.

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When sitting wordless,
In the quiet of my mind
I know His presence.

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I cannot find God.
I cannot lose God because
God is immanent in me.

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Man has many names
For God; but none are His name.
Yet He knows my name.

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Who would speak for God
Speaks only from arrogance
God does not need words.

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When sitting wordless,
In the quiet of my mind
I know His presence.

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Who importunes God
With public pious prattle
Importunes the wind.

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Open up your mind.
There is no secret from God
In or out of mind

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Feel God in your mind
And know that He knows you
Can you not know Him?

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Can I by thinking
Correct my incorrect thoughts?
Who will correct me?

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Electrons orbit protons; planets orbit stars;
Stars orbit galaxies.
All is motion through time;
No-thing is without motion:
There is no stillness.
There are no objects,
There are only events,
Each thing we call an object is an event
Which comes into existence,
endures for a time,
then ceases to be.
My body-brain-mind is a soul.
I am a soul.
I am an event.

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In the stillness of my mind
when words are purged
And only quiet breath
Relieves the urge to speak
I know that I know
but I know not why or how I know,
That when I am too tull of words that show
The inline of my mind I find
The outline of reality in words is
Like a a mirror in a mirror
where I can see
A regress of images cloned to an infinity
of words about words and classes of words
And nowhere is there nexus to
Anything but words.
Therefore I refute the tyranny of words.
I touch your hand.

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Nowhere in my memory can I find any real thing or event
That came in through my senses.
My memory is a library, a storing-place for symbols
Of images, sounds,smells, tastes, and touchings
Perceived by my mind and converted into patterns
Of potential and kinetic energy which represent ,
But are not, things or events real.

I can Imagine new things or events, but these are always
Re-combinations or re-relations of patterns
off the shelves of my memory.
Like imagination, my dreams contain things or events
Which appear to be new; but on examination also
Consist of items or pieces of items off the shelves of memory.

If no item in my memory is the real thing or event,
but only a symbolic representation recalled to my consciousness
in the present, then are all sensory perceptions merely illusionary?

This is a nonsense question. If all sensory perceptions are illusions,
then the illusions are themselves illusions, and since they point only to themselves, they are "real". Nature is not stupid. My senses were designed to elicit useful information from the world, and my intuition tells me that they do so. If I mistrust my senses, how then can I trust my mistrust?

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Who importunes God
With pious public prattle
Importunes the wind.
He Who Is immanent,
Omniscient;
And Omnipotent
Knows all.
How can His knowledge be improved?

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I am never out of soul.
I am never in soul.
My mind is a body-brain acting
On all its memories recorded.
Seeking my soul is seeking
A reflection in a mirror.
I am a soul.

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An angel from God accosted me saying, "Justify your life",
And I replied, "I am His creation.
Before time was, He knew me.
In his omnipotence He created me;
In his immanence He is in me and I in Him
In his omniscience He knew my creation, my life, and my death;
His justification is my justification. I can offer no other,"
And the angel, if it was an angel, only smiled.
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I do not recall my birth
Nor that of the earth..
The earth will die
and so will I,
but neither shall I know.
Ah. so.

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Look at one you love.
Will there be a tomorrow?
Look again, and love.
Look Again

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In my genome is the memory
Of ten-thousand times ten-thousand generations
Recorded in every cell of my body-brain-mind and
Reflecting its presence and its power.
It does not speak in words. It is me; I am it.
Together we are a soul.

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Senses He gave me with which to know His works;
Mind He gave me to know the meaning of my perceptions.
If I cannot trust the senses and mind He gave me,
How then can I trust God?
And If I cannot trust God, How then can I trust
Those who bid me mistrust my senses and my mind?

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Who looks into the mind
With the mind
Sees an infinite regression:
Reflection of reflection
without end.
But know that a reflection of a reflection
Is only a reflection and not another reality.
In the mirror of my mind
I see only myself one time
On the bridge that no-traveler crosses.

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Many there are who would save me
from uncertainty, death, dissolution and damnation.

I am importuned with promises that death is overcome
After sure and certain resurrection of this mortal body,
Followed by life everlasting in glory,
If only I would
Honor their self-appointed adepts and gurus,
Chant their chants, sing their songs
submit to their contrived ceremonies
And believe what they believe.

But in the quiet of my wordless mind,
I know that I know eternity.
I know that I shall never know death.
Who will save me from my saviors?

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I am myself, if you please.
I am myself if you don't please.
Even when I try not to be myself
I am only myself trying not to be myself.
Therefore, behold myself.
What you see is what you get.

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Man has many names for God;
But none are His name.
Yet He knows my name.

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Open up your mind.
There is no secret from God
In or out of mind

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How curious it is that no out-of-body-experience
Is ever witnessed by any but the experiencer.
Can it be that out-of-body experience
Is only in the mind ?

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I am told by those who think they know,
that my experience of this physical world is illusion
because it is not the real world contained in my mind,
but only my sensory impressions of the real world
which are represented in my mind ;
and hence my "inner mind" is the only "reality"
that I can ever know.

But if the only content of my mind is in my mind;
and my only experience of this physical world
is through my senses; and all this experience is illusion,
then which, pray tell, is the real illusion?

If "spiritual" or "religious" experience is experience
in the "inner mind" how am I to distinguish between the
inner illusion and the outer illusion? This is only possible
if I mistrust my senses. But if I must mistrust my senses,
How am I to trust my mistrust?

It requires no profound satori to know that
I am a presently existing organism of body and brain
and that my "mind" is the present actifvity of my brain.
The cortex of my brain is presently conscious
of the present input of my senses . This is a single observation,
like a reflection in a mirror; and what appears to be
multiple reflections are only reflections of reflections,
and not "other planes of existence".

Is a reflection "real"? Reality is that which points only to itself,
and has no "meaning" other than itself.
A reflection of a reflection can only to point to itself,
and to impute "meaning" beyond the original object reflected
is absurd on its face.

The only "real" experience is direct observation by the senses
of ojbects which point to nothing but themselves,
and devoid of mind-imposed abstract values.

My body, my physical organism , is an object that can be directly observed.
My mind, the activity of my brain, is not an object and cannot be directly observed.
Does my mind really exist? Of course it exists.
It is an ongoing series of events called thoughts.
Can it be "pointed to"? Can events be "pointed to"?
Does one "point" to the thought , which is the action;
or does one point to the brain, whose action is the thought?
Which is the illusion, the thought which exists solely in the action of the brain;
or the brain whose action constitutes the thought?

It requires no profound satori to realize that values are artifacts of the mind
and as such have no "real" existence which can be directly experienced.
The basic problem is to distinguish clearly between direct experience
and imposed values which masquerade as "real" objects.
"Soul" is a value; "spirit" is a value; "truth" is a value; "omniscience" is a value;
"mystery" is a value; "power" is a value, "karma" is a value, ad infinitum.
Abstractions reified are not matters which can be experienced directly.
In short, it is the abstraction which is the illusion.

There is no "ultimate truth" or "transcendental mystery of Being"
which can be experienced directly, because there is no "real experience"
other than direct experience. The mind cannot know
that which it cannot experience; and it cannot directly experience
anything but the input of the senses.
There is nothing in the mind which the mind can grasp;
and likewise nothing outside the mind which the mind can grasp.

If my mind cannot transcend itself, then it is clear that knowledge
of "transcendent" knowledge is an illusory quest whose only purpose
is to "get one-up" on an ego, which is itself an illusion
made up of sensory images stored in my memory.
This is samsara, and I will have no more of it.

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I am my body-brain-mind.
There is no thinker-of-my-thoughts,
No perceiver-of-my-perceptions,
No feeler-of-my-emotions.
No remember-er-of-my-memories.
I am my thoughts;
I am my perceptions;
I am my emotions;
I am my memories.
My thoughts and my perceptions and my emotions and my memories
Exist forever here and now
On the Bridge that No Traveler crosses.

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When He-Who-Claimed-Insight
told me that there are many planes of existence
to which my soul could aspire,
I looked in a mirror and saw a reflection
Of my face.
In a second mirror I saw a reflection of a reflection
of a reflection to infinity of uncounted reflections
of my face,
And I asked, "How many faces have I?
And in that moment I knew that
there is only this face,
and only this plane of existence
Reflected in the mirrors of my mind.

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Seek not for stillness.
There is no stillness in the universe.
All that is is matter-energy-motion;
Matter is energy and energy is matter,
And space enfolds both and is both
At the speed of light.
All that exists is in motion and is motion.
Without beginning or end;
The unit of existence is the event,
Without beginning or end.
The unit of mind is the thought
Without beginning or end.
Each thought is an event
Without beginning or end.
My body-brain-mind exists in the universe.
My body-brain-mind is a "soul"
A soul is an event in the eternal event
which is the universe.

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While in my quiet mind I sought my soul, and pondered
How it might return to God.
And then I knew, and now I know
that I am a soul; and I never left Him, nor He me.

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Who would speak for God
Speaks only from arrogance
God does not need words.

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Review and preview
Both occur in my present mind.
Only the present exists.

I know that I know
Yesterday and tomorrow
In my present mind.

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This body arose from star-matter
Assembled in the womb of my mother,
According to a plan ordained by God
Before time began.
My birth, my life, my death He knew
From the beginning.
Mind He gave me to seek His will.
How can I deviate from His Will?

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When young I saw time as a river flowing;
I stood on the shore of events
knowing nothing of death
and little of birth, living life
as time passed by.
but now as I hear the laughter
of my grandchildren
I know that I am time.

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If I cannot trust my own nature,
How can I trust my mistrust?
If this physical life is an illusion,
How may I know that my illusion
Is not itself an illusion?

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The validity of a belief is not necessarily related to
the duration of its existence.
Saints and wise men alike, although they are not
necessarily the same persons, believed for a thousand years
that the earth is flat;
that the sun revolved around the earth,
that diseases were caused by bad humours,
and other beliefs which, though held i good faith.
were simply wrong.
These were aspects of reality
which could have been determined by simple, direct observation;
but were not so determined because both
Saints and wise men preferred to beleive the words
of other Saints and wise men to making their own simple,
direct observations.
It is far easier -- and more comfortable to croon OM
and silence the Mind.

If Saints and Masters had the ability to see Auras
and electromagnetic eminations
from the human body,
Why were they unable to visualize the shape and identity
of the bacteria which feed on the human body?
Why could not they have told us that the eminations from a simple mould
would kill the bacteria?
Why did they not visualize and tell us that the beating of the heart
causes the blood circulate through the body?
Or that lithium would releive the terrible suffering of depression?

For three thousand years the Saints have been contemplating their navels
-- or the universe between their ears -- and have not seen the truth
which lies just beyond their noses.
Have they done this because they love their fellow men?
A single Mother Theresa whose
loving hands have washed and soothed and fed a single sufferer
is worth ten thousand ashrams of so-called Masters crooning OM.

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I am a biological organism.
I perceive the world.
I see with eyes;
I hear with ears;
I smell with a nose;
I feel with my skin.
I eat.
I excrete waste.
I breathe air.
I sleep.
I bleed when cut.
My sperm fertilizes the eggs from which my young
are gestated in the womb of my mate
and she suckles them with milk from her breasts.
My genome determines
the shape and functions of my body-brain-mind.
Nowere have I seen, heard, smelled, or felt
a soul that is not a function of my body.
In the quiet of my wordless mind
I know that I am a soul; my soul is me.
We are not a "we".
We are a unity.

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While seeking God
At the nether edge of experience
I came to the chasm of uncertainty and doubt
That guards the path to Nirvana
And, finding no way to cross into that blessed state
Save to leap, I lept.

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Knowledge of hell bars not the door thereto.
What values wisdom If knowledge prostituted slays me?
My destiny is guided by an evil genius: Science.
My hopes beguiled, I thought to find a better world,
But presently I saw an Imp upon the throne of knowledge.
With ruthless tyranny He bears me down.
By his decrees, my own designs are nil;
My guilt decided before the act.
What values wisdom If science with him conspires
To make my Ivory tower but a footstool in the mire?
 

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