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Be As You Are

Taking yourself to be more than an appearance, you assume your world is also real, and more than an appearance. But a non-existent you, can only be seeing a non-existent world.  


We establish a presumed universe, and then ask “How can we say that this is a void?”


Impermanence means that everything is in change constantly, moment by moment. No thing, in fact truly exists as a fixed “thing”, at any time.


If there is a time that had a beginning somewhere, then time can come to an end. Time, then is not a lasting reality.


Since you do not exist, you cannot ask, “How am I here?”, because in reality you aren’t.

You appear to be real, to an unreal you—as the you in a dream takes its reality for granted.


If you were in deep sleep, where “you” and your “mind” do not appear, and the heart stopped: would you know that you had died?


Come to know that there is no death, and therefore nothing after it (especially a sensate “individual”) and you will end such questions as “what comes after death?”


An actor can have the knowledge that he is not real, and that the character whose role he is playing has never been, and yet he can play out the role as his life.


When you close your eyes for the last time, this will all disappear. The slate will be wiped clean. You may say, “But it will be there for others”. No: the others disappear with you, not anything remains. So is the world real or did it appear when you opened your eyes—and ends when you die? If the world is not real, are you real?


You say the mind is real because we both experience it. No, if it were real we would both have the same experience of the mind. And if the world were real, we would both have the same experience of the world. Anything that’s real must be real to both of us in the same way.


Since there is no self, there is no mind. And because there is no mind, there is no perception or consciousness of a world or universe. “No mind” is the consequence of the realization of emptiness.


Emptiness tells us that there’s not anything we need to get. Anything we could get would be empty. The getter itself is empty. Where there is nothing we need to get, there is nothing we can become. All that could remain is to be as you are—empty.

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