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What is alone and free
We all are
Nothing contains us but our own minds
Our own selves
Thinking stops us doing
We believe the need to reason
To work things out in the mind
Plan and prepare
Go on constantly doing this
Always looking at the future missing the present
Only half here and now
Like a man in a sleep walk
In missing the here and now we miss life
Because the here and now is all there is
No past or future
Only here and now
Not in terms of time and space
More illusions created by the mind
But in terms of eternity
All there is
Ironic is it not
The very thing we think we need in order to live
Our minds
Our plans
Cast shadows of illusion over our life
Forcing us into confusion and despair
Always thrown by lives circumstance
Constantly in a flux
Not knowing what is what
Trying to bring the mind to bear again
To regain a sense of order
Get the plan back
Using the very thing to do this which is the cause of the disorder
In the first Place

The mind
It is the root of the confusion and despair
How can it be used to solve the questions
When it causes them
All you can do in using the mind is cause more confusion
More dirt to be stirred up
Like trying to put out a fire by throwing petrol on it

The flames leap higher
Give up all planning
All ideas
Renounce all knowledge
Think of nothing
Stop reasoning
Trying to work out this and that
Stop all that thinking
Don't renounce any material things
Just the mind and all knowledge
Surrender
Sit back and watch the fire burn itself out
Don't try and affect it
Forget the mind
Just watch and it will go out by itself
As will the mind if you just watch it
That's it
Just watch
Keep watching
Always
Until there is no I to watch it but only Truth.


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