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Gatha of Liberation
by Fajian
Truth and reality both are the same.
Truth
must be real, otherwise it is not truth.
Reality must be true, otherwise it does not
exist.
Belief or faith both are the same. They
cannot be proven.
If they can be proven, they cease to be faith
or belief.
Faith requires trust, belief does not.
Belief is taking something for reality that
is not.
Trust is taking refuge,
becoming one, being one.
Oneness with any great teacher is
transcendent, not worship, beyond trust.
It is not making him divine.
No man can ever claim to be supernatural.
All physical beings live within the
boundaries of reality,
within cause and effect.
Non-physical beings, deities and ghosts exist
only in the mind.
What exists in the mind has no form. Form is
for all to see.
The past exists only in the mind.
The future is not here, its perception exists
only in the mind.
This moment, what is now, what is here, is
where reality and truth reside.
Oneness with all sentient beings, oneness
with nature, with the world, with all.
Oneness with the universe is realization,
higher consciousness,
is living beyond ego perception and transcending
into big mind.
Small Mind no longer disjointed from Big Mind
-- all is one.
Compassion arises naturally, no more effort,
no more goal and aim.
Enlightenment or liberation arise from
connection,
from oneness of mind -- not separation;
from being in the moment -- not the past or
future;
fully experiencing the here and now --
without distraction or alienation, without
beliefs and ideas.
Words cannot express the experience of
liberation.
It cannot be learned, nor found in books, nor grasped with intellect.
Liberation does not know doctrines and
perceptions.
Liberation does not need theistic
personifications.
Liberation rests in the moment, in the
present bliss.
All is here. There is nothing to obtain from
elsewhere outside.
Beings are born with Buddha nature.
Beings yearn to free true nature from its
cage of conditioning and concepts.
The inner treasure of liberation wants to be
set free.
Beings are born to stay free.
Beings are free. Beings are enlightened.
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