SERENITY AND NOTHING TO STICK TO

Please do not fall into the trap of words.


Without judgment, evaluation or significance what is there to be desired?




Stop trying to change.




Before the word “nihilism,” what is nihilism?

Everything that is?




Without the concept of location, where are you?

Right here?




Why did someone sit staring at a wall for nine years?

Because she did.

What was she expecting to get?

Nothing.

And what was she doing?

Staring at a wall.




Anything that happens is the name of a perception.




Right and wrong,

Wrong and right.

Without the illusion of a fiction

How would we know who we were or that we were?




Before words are there teachings?

Before words is there instruction?




Is there a book before the word “book”?




A philosophy or a reality?

What is a philosophy?

What is a reality?

Is a philosophy a reality?

Is a reality a philosophy?




Life is a label.

Death is a label.

But what is a label?

A fiction.

So is there life and death?




Seeing something as a thing

The fiction of “is” persists.

Without perception, the world dissolves.

Who were you before you were born?




Whatever you say something is, it isn’t.

Everything is at least a fiction.




No knower,

No known,

No separation,

No action.

Formless form.

No knowing.

No not knowing.




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




You are not a person.

There is no “self”.

If there is no “you”

Then nothing you say about this “you” can be true.




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




Appearance through opposites,

Difference an illusion,

Separation a perception,

Oneness a confusion.




Might you be enlightened but not know it?




In your bubble, what happens when the bubble bursts?




Movement, rest.

Rest, movement.




You are called a “you”

But it is not a “you”.

What you call a “you”

Is the name of a perception.




You are a state.

But there is no state.




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




If there is no state then where are you?

Right here.

But where is “here”?

The present moment.




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




Can you locate the source of a thought?

Can you find the creator?

Where is the start?

What is there before perception?

Imaginary states?

Reflections?




A reflection of an illusion of a metaphor of a fiction.

A reflection of an illusion of a metaphor of a fiction.

A reflection of an illusion of a metaphor of a fiction.




Mind?

No Mind.




Knowing?

Not Knowing.




We call it “the world”

But there is no “world”.

We see the manifestations

But there is no manifestation.

We become drawn in

And become caught up in attachment.




What does believing have to do with anything?




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




Beware of believing.

Beware of attachment.

Beware of what makes sense.




So what is the situation?

What situation?




A speck of dust is necessary for the universe to be.

Words representing that which does not exist.

Fear holds things together

With “I don’t know” and “right and wrong”.




The All takes a shape

But it is still the All.

It hurts

But it is still the All.

Loveless

Still the All.




No difference or sameness

With All no “I”

With death comes the death of

“I am”.




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




A speck of dust is All.




What is?

What isn’t?




Neither.




Water has no colour.

What colour is light?

Light is a perception.

What does light depend on?




You add

You take away

Equally zero.




No gain

No loss

All or fact?

Not zero.




No fixed positions

No being

No non-being

In between.




No enlightenment

No unenlightenment

In between.




Examine in between.

Who can know it?

There is no knower.




Teachings teach nothing,

They distract.

Describing what isn’t,

They can overpoint

Until the medicine makes sicker

Instead of healthier.

Dogma becomes fundamentalism

And the flexible becomes rigid.

Blind faith and empty hope

Are a bitter combination.




Teachings do not teach,

They point.

Without rules,

Right or Wrong,

Discrimination.




Dispose of the thorn before its wound

Infects you.




No creation

No destruction

No one to know




With no one to know

What are “same” and “different” anymore?




Who knows what?

What are we talking about?




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




The illusionary world

Consciousness

Neither

No One

Absolute

Without.




Subjectivity is mind.

Objectivity is mind.

It is like looking

In a mirror.




Without form or emptiness

The mirror is smashed.

There is no mind.

There is no mirror.

There is no form.




Beware attachment.




Are you free?

Are you trapped?

Is there mind?

Is there consciousness?




Has your bubble burst?




Unaware

Not aware.




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




There is not a thing

That does not depend

On other things,

Mutually supporting.

Everything is everything else.




Interdependent,

Relative,

Reciprocal,

Participatory.




Love,

Hate,

Fear,

Courage,

Holding everything together

Just as they are

So that the universe

Is just as it is.




The blade of grass

Is as important as “I”.




Sometimes the same,

Sometimes different,

Consciousness and

Perceived appearances

Exist as

Constant change.

What is their

Meaning and Significance?




Why discuss it?




The “I” sees endless activity,

A succession of things.

Yet without “I” to depend upon

There is only the Uninterrupted.

Endless flow,

In which “I” partakes,

Is the way of things.




What does it matter if you feel it?

What does it matter if you don’t?

What does it matter if you think it?

What does it matter if you don’t?

What does it matter if you believe it?

What does it matter if you don’t?




Self will not appear from somewhere

Unless you try to stand still.

And then you will get gain and loss,

Like a photograph of reality

That is not real itself,

That is not Endless Flow.




If you want to define things through perception,

Your senses will agree with your decision.

Consciousness, awareness, produce

The “is”, the “was” and the “will be”.

Concepts solidify,

Existence is conjured.




But what is “I-dentity”?

What is “definition”?

What is “perception”?

What is “mind”?




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




The highest Serenity means extinction.

Anatta, Sunyata.

No self, emptiness.

All.

Endless Flow.




Action equals action,

Significances delude.

Organisational structures,

A fiction.




Here, there.

There, here.

What is “location”?




Hate, love.

Love, hate.

Do they exist?




Holy, profane.

Profane, holy.

What?




Lying, truth.

Truth, lying.

Fiction.




Significance,

An idealism.

“Special”,

An illegitimate distinction.




Names given to things,

Names for perceptions.




The All does not need perception,

A perceiver is equally to the side.

Without seeing or hearing it abides,

Without “is” or “is not” it resides.

The All is not awareness.




Past...

Present...

Future...




Now?




There is no “now”

For there is no “you”

Only “That” which isn’t.

“That” which can’t be grasped.




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states...




The perceptual apparatus breaks.




What were you

Before you were you?

What were you

Before words came?

Imagine the boundaries,

Impose human form.




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.

No body,

No form.

No “I”.




In the revelation of the All

Things disappear.

The All

Extinguishes

And things

Are forgotten.




Thoughts,

No thoughts.

Reality,

No reality.

Knowing,

No knowing.

I,

No I.

Self,

No self.




The negation is just as important

As the affirmation.

Each is part of the Whole.

When there is only affirmation

You forget you are Nowhere.




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.

A portal to Nowhere,

An eternal location.




What is the meaning of the Way?

A tree grows in the yard.

One if you see it,

“One” if you don’t.




Duality, a mistake,

Non-duality, a delusion.

Do not be deceived by language,

Smoke and mirrors.




Does a dead body know what it is?

Without knowing,

Without deceptive consciousness,

Without misleading awareness,

Without the falsehood of right and wrong?

Does a dead body know what it is?




Names given to perceptions

Do not make them so

And by adding an abstraction

It gains or loses no substance.




Here

Now

Is

Was

Will be




Illusory perceptions.

“Wisdom contains no knowledge.”

Without words,

The senses.

Without knowingness,

Can you know yourself?

Without words,

What is there?

The All,

Without words.




An equality of the All.

Form,

Emptiness.

No better,

No worse.

No higher,

No lower.

No senior,

No junior.

No beginning,

No end.

No earlier,

No later.

An equality of the All.




What is.

What isn’t.

Man never went to the moon.

No man.

No moon.

No went.




Form, emptiness.

Emptiness, form.

No “is”.




Asleep, awake.

Awake, asleep.

Which is the dream?

What difference does it make?




Enlightenment means extinction.

Go back the way you came.




I dreamed a world,

And dreamed it wasn’t a dream.

What appeared to be,

Was.

Analysed,

Theorised,

Building out the dream

That wasn’t a dream.

Grounded,

Spiritualised,

The dream that wasn’t a dream.

How to get out

Of the dream that wasn’t a dream?




Place

No Place

Wrong place

No wrong place

No place.




No world,

No place.




How can the world appear without place?




Something,

Not something.

Nothing,

Not nothing.




What is?

What is “is”?




The past becomes a zero

In the light of the present,

Dissolving into zero

Without zero.

Illusory cause becomes

Illusory result.




False conclusion,

False solution.

Blow out the light,

Enlightenment means extinction.




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




The dream becomes real,

When you begin to believe it

But it doesn’t thereby

Stop being a dream.

No way out,

Seeking followed by more seeking,

But what cannot be got out of

Cannot be got into either.




No way out,

No way in.

Only dreaming.

Only believing.




Way,

No Way.




What is the cause of causes

When here is as good as anywhere,

When there is no start or finish,

When there is neither activity nor rest?




In the All I do not ever know that I am.




Can you be aware of your own extinction?




No enlightenment,

No delusion.

Who can add wetness

To the sea?




Why is this true?

Beware the deception of words!




Life is like noise

Without meaning.

Sound is like

Meaning without noise.




Do you understand?

What does it matter?




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




Many bodies,

Or one body?

Without noticing,

Or noticer,

The All.




Affirmation,

Negation.

Enlightenment,

Not Enlightenment.

Point of view,

Not point of view.




Do you understand?

What does it matter?




Consciousness is Nothing,

Nothing is consciousness,

And neither are.

What is realisation?

No beings,

No duality,

No non-duality,

No selves,

No things.




The bubble bursts.




Teachers teach the light

But do not know

That what they teach as light

Is not light.

No location,

No space,

No time,

No form.




What is light if what you teach is the bubble?

Not light.




Sentient beings with

A point of view.

Beings who have

A space-time location.

This makes manifest.




The All cannot be manifest.

No point of view.

No life.

No death.

No existence

Or non-existence.




Life being unborn

As if it never was.




No change,

No growth,

No decay.

No hope,

No organisation.

A hazy mist of imaginings.

The mist dissolves.




Making sense is the way

To appearance and the

Imagining “As if”.

But what without

Making sense?




Once more,

A cool mist.

No body,

No point of view.

A cool mist.




The wave and the current

Are in the sea

Before you can

See them.




The granite contains

The statue

Before

It appears.




Extinction is

Waking up

And the rock

Remains untouched.




What is the wetness of water?

What is a sense of place?

What is the appearance of stasis?

A mirage you can’t replace.




Perception is a thorn.

Remove it before its

Wound infects you.




The mirage vanishes.




No mind,

No enlightenment.




What is before

The birth of

Mother and

Father?




A solid circle,

Never filled.

Without zero,

Never filled.




No infinity,

No zero.

No such thing as filled.




In the bubble

All is equal

Although it appears otherwise.

So what?




Who can say equal or unequal?

Of what importance is saying?




Journey

On the path,

Walking in the Way,

Could you take a trip

Without fear of missing the return trip?

No return trip.




Its done.




The illusion of present

Disappears

Becoming past…




Past, though,

Is not present

And neither is it past

For past is always experienced

In the present.




No connection

Which creates the self

In networks

Of time.




What stories will be made up now?




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




No time,

No self.




“The monkey grabs

At the reflection in the moon.”

The sound appears,

Meaning without noise.

The light,

Reveals the bubble

And you say,

“I see!”

The mind perceives…

Its own reflection.




The bubble bursts,

No light,

No sound.




Same,

Without same.




Beware

The delusional light of awareness!




Within the bubble

There is relationship

Yet what has

Anything to do with

Anything else?




Experiences are

Relations

Which lead

From experience to experience

Eternally.




This is a bubble seduction.

Expect nothing from experiences.




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




No relations.

No relationships.

No reference point.

The seduction of

The bubble.




A finger.

A hand.

A face.

Without location,

Without space.




There’s no point of view

From no point of view.




Perceiving,

Deceiving,

Illusion,

Delusion.




A stick burns,

Stick, body,

Fire, consciousness.

When the stick burns

Where does the smoke go?

The answer is everywhere

And nowhere.




Without a point of view,

Without a point to view.

Who knows anything of this?

Without a point of view,

Without a point to view from?




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




With nowhere to see from

What is there to see?

With nowhere to know from

What is there to know?

Without a position,

Or fixed point of view?

Who sees,

Sees what?




Not knowing.




No inside,

No outside.

No ground?

Unseen but hard not to

Imagine the illusioned

Existence,

Hard to stop

The dream.




Without space

And time

What is being perceived?

What can be taught?

What can be said?




Everything a no,

Not,

Nothing,

Without.

Not applicable.

The dream illusion,

No dream illusion.

The root is without.

Before emptiness and form,

No thing [nothing],




Before nature,

No thing [nothing].




Before experience and knowing?

No thing [nothing].




That which comes and goes

Is an illusion.

That which perceives and is perceived,

The same.

That which explains and understands,

Illusion.

Treasure hunts are fictions

Even if they are entertaining

And fools gold has no value

Even if one of the words is gold.

Awareness resides in

Unawareness,

An actionless action.




Not applicable, no, without.




That which cannot be negated.

Not this.

No such thing as.




The point of view which

Confuses

And hides that which

Never was.




Perceptions,

Fictions,

Illusions,

Imaginary states.




A you which

Recognises you are

Not you

Hiding that which

Never was.




Actions in pursuit of reward,

A vicious cycle.

Realisation cannot

Be earned.

It cannot be

Had,

Possessed,

Or experienced.

Enlightenment means Extinction.

Exact all your effort

To learn:

Effort gets you

Nowhere!

You come from

Consciousness.

Consciousness does not come

From you!




Before you leave,

Turn off the light!

Enlightenment means extinction!

Without a soul to know it,

What is?

What isn’t?




A perceiver,

And a body appears.

A perceiver,

And an atom appears.

A perceiver,

And science appears.




Can you “see” without considering?

Can you mean without words?

Do problems appear by themselves?




Made

Is

Being

Now

Was

Am

Will be.




The assumptions never end.




Teach me a word that has never existed.

Exist without existing.

No such thing as zero.




Please do not fall into the trap of words.