AsIDream

Heaven

Whatever happens could not have happened

in any other way

There is no one to choose

The lover has collapsed

Into the beloved

And everything happens

exactly as it should

The idea of choice

Implies that there is an individual

Who is separate from life

Who creates his own life in his choosing it

But there is no doer

There is only the Absolute

And choice is as much an illusion as man

Everything arises spontaneously, freely,

of its own accord

‘You’ are the Absolute

With the liberation of Knowing

That there is no greater peace

than choiceless awareness

Anyone who loses their personal life for the Truth

will find it

And when one realizes how perfect everything is,

The unconditional love of heaven reveals itself

One Light

He who gives up his sense

Of self-hood

Apart from the One Presence

Rises up

Conscious of Being

The One Presence

Itself

The heavenly world

Eternally

Here and Now

Seeing all as One Life

The only Reality

Not the illusion

Of a separate self

In a material

And mental universe

But the One Light

That breaks through the earthly dream

Where none see other

Than the One in All

And All in One

Knowing the nectar of immortality

The Kingdom Within

Light everywhere meets light

For everything is found In the Self

and the Self in everything

No longer surrounded by the universe

The Self is every atom

And every galaxy

Something separate is no more

Upon ‘emerging on the other side’

of the awakening

The world is no longer called a world

All is the Self

Everything that one was before

is annihilated

The end of all things

To the beginning of all things

One disappears into the Self

And is no longer in relation

to anything else

For there is nothing else

but the Self

Here alone is freedom

There is nothing to cause limitation

It is the final mystery

Where words

of the dualistic illusion

Are not adequate

One becomes the ultimate mystery

of creation

Self and Not-Self in unchanging unity

But the Absolute does not create

It Is eternal creation

Nor does it desire the appearances of what is

Reject or fear them

All is but One’s True Self

With nothing to desire outside Reality

Not even heaven to seek

For the awakened is already the Eternal

Absolute bliss is wherever One is

It is as though a light from within

illuminates all

Even a grain of dust has a sublime message

As for immortality,

The Absolute is a beginning

that never was

Nor will there ever be an end

Rich beyond imagination,

the Knower is left silent

Because its simplicity

is too great to express

But the Self-Realized One knows

what Truth

and the real Reality is

For One becomes the eternal light to know the eternal light

The Kingdom within has been found

Seeing All Is Perfect

You are the One perpetual Light:

The Presence in all things, and all things in you

You are the entire universe

Without separation between objects

For there are no objects or space between them

There is only the limitless infinity of your own Being

That is everything and yet nothing

But in this emptiness, Heaven is found

For as you take off the mask of personality

You realize your immortality :

The Eternal Being that has always been

That is now, and that will forever be

That which was forgotten long ago

Before your ego left the Garden of Paradise

Where you were free of the mind

That, like a prison, locks itself from within

The very thing that makes the illusion

And the cause of inaccurate interpretation

As humans think that they people

Rather than attempting to know One’s Self

That One that is All and ‘everyone’

Without imperfection, luminous, radiant, and beautiful

Like the majesty of an eternal dawn

And though you are now absent from the dream of life

Self-realization fills your heart with ecstasy

In the invisible embrace of yourself

For you are free of all limitation, suffering, and time

The summit of grace made intimate

And even more so in the knowing that seeing all things as Perfect

Creates everything to be so

The Light of Eternity

After you are liberated, you become aware

that everything

is consciousness

You see everything in the world

as Pure

You find that contentment

And fulfillment

are but the Self

You attain total freedom

And you see that everything is as you are

You will not worry

because you can only meet yourself

God is no longer something

you experience

In the stillness and quiet, you see

That all which arises is but the nature

of the mind

But none have claim over you

All dissolves into your radiance

and luminosity

For you are the “I Am That I Am”

There is no difference

between you

and everything else

Just as you are this poem

The Nameless looking at the Nameless

When you awaken, the nectar

of the love of Knowing

will fill you with bliss beyond mind

It is not you, but the Nameless

doing everything

There is no personal you and never has been

This is the great illusion

of why you left Eden

Instantly, you will see that you no longer

have karma

Nor have you ever sinned

That which is witnessing your thoughts

at this very moment – is God, the Self,

the Absolute, the Nameless,

the Light of Christ Consciousness

For all holy rivers of Being merge in your heart :

The Light of Eternity that is every leaf, star, and universe

Nirvana

There is a difference between believing

and Knowing

Nirvana is to know Eternity

and Immortality

in the here and now

in this very moment.

Enlightened in the perfection

of All That Is –

the realization of the Self

the Truth that sets one free

from all bondage

to desire and thought.

No longer a slave to the mind

with its idolatrous concepts

that distort the truth

worshiped at temples

not your own

while believing that the universe

is external to you

and that you are but one

among billions

but materialism is an illusion

the universe is consciousness

believing otherwise is the worst prison

for it is unseen

and self-made as well

Becoming One with the Absolute

reveals the kingdom within

your true identity that has always been

Being that surpasses the comprehension

of the mind

where the heart cannot be other than ecstatic

And in perfect peace

for there is no longer anything that disturbs the still waters

The Eye of a Needle

If the instrument owns its owner

This is the ‘fat’,

The false identity

That will not make it through the eye

Of a needle

The End of the World

How long it took you to get here

To the end of the world

Finding that it was not what you expected

But the end of who you thought you were

The end of what you never were

Thinking you were the sufferer

In a suffering world

Only to discover that your individual self never was

Nor was it ever real

As illusion evaporates before awareness

Leaving only That Which Is

That which has always been

Even before the world itself; the dream that never was

Now absolute awareness sees

Individual consciousness was but a conceived, selective thought

No person exists to contain universal consciousness

Nor is there any independent reality as “thought”

Truth perceived compares to nothing

For true awareness is beyond the mind

All That Is – is this awareness;

There is nothing else

Without imperfection, for there is no imperfection

Nothing better, nothing worse, no heaven , nor any hell

Nothing to get, nothing to add

And nothing to get from anything

There is simply no doer to do anything

Where there is no self, even “meaning” is meaningless

Knowing this is the great liberation, the spiritual rebirth, the true resurrection :

Absolute freedom from all attachment, need, and bondage

One is not looking at the void; One is the void itself: the Absolute, the Ultimate Self, “God”

And since there is no ‘other’, and because It Is alone

It cannot be said to exist

For there is nothing other that lends support to an existence that is not I Am

That awareness which witnesses the end of the world

Letting Go

True meditation is letting go

Letting go

Of manipulating experience

Of expectations

Of the illusion of time

With the illusion

Of yesterdays and tomorrows

Letting go

Of things that would own you

And that would own your thought

Or any beliefs that would do the same

Letting go

Of the illusion of things

And the idea that anything is separate from another

Letting go

Of the illusion that life is made of personal entities

With the concept of individual identities

And the illusion of good and evil

Letting go

Of the false belief in sin

And the belief that there is any imperfection in any moment

Letting go of the perception that there is a meditator or meditation

Or that there is a material universe

True meditation is knowing this

And the total peace that comes with this awareness

The Ashes of the Stars

Having renounced all

For the Truth

Found within,

The Self is no longer attached

To the ashes

Of the Stars;

For Immortal Awareness is all that remains

Of all.