VISIONARY TEACHINGS
by Gill Schwartz

GATE', GATE', PARAGATE',

PARASAMGATE' BODDHI SVAHA

Gone, gone, truly gone. Full and truly gone to the Other Shore.

Beyond, beyond, fully gone beyond. Gone beyond becoming to Enlightenment.

Gone. Ended. Over. Finished. All I observe is passing or past, whether it was thirty year ago or my last breath. It came into being, persisted some while, and now is no more. This relentless primal theme is the pattern for every instant, every lifetime. From it springs deepest meaning, beauty and emptiness.

Releasing into this ebb and flow-- the endless crystallizing into being and dissolving back into the stream of experience-- I begin to awaken. I awake from the delusionary belief that my reality is independent of this fluxing interplay between chattering mind and unpredictable circumstance. My heart is released from anguished captivity to the happenstantial. It opens to let its Source freely flow.

With that, what had seemed galling burdens and blinding tasks, I comprehend as my own reactive impressions of G__'s unknowable Being. The confines of my self-image dissolve too. I fill with excruciating bliss and terrifying wonder as pure Presence pours in. There is the perfection of total Being, without choice or distinction. The All is here, always.

All segments of myself, present and past, dissolve like the cells of a beehive melting in the Sun. The dualities of consciousness touch and merge and totally fill me with Knowing. My bodybeing is a channel, gushing through with torrents of Life. flexing and twisting like a cosmic conduit. Emotions course through, full and unrestricted by considerations. I am total Love, guided and at peace within my Self.

My mind is a wave on the Ocean of Consciousness. All that It touches is blessed. In fullest joy, I recognize my none-otherness with G__. There is no Other. For it is precious Eternity itself that comes into being and passes away. And then is:

Gone, gone, truly gone. Full and truly gone to the Other Shore.

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