Wednesday, June 04, 2008

There is neither disciple nor Master in the final understanding

Final understanding is understanding that there is nothing to understand. The world is a spontaneous appearance. The one who perceives it is included in it as a character in the dream. In reality, there is no Master, no disciple, no teaching, and no realization. That all happened in the dream. Final understanding means freedom from the cycle of birth and rebirth: the current dream continues for its allotted time, and then is over. There is a famous quatrain from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:

There was a door to which I found no key:
There was a veil past which I could not see:
Some little talk awhile of me and thee
There seemed-and then no more of thee and me.

The Way of the Bird, Ranjit Maharaj

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