The Scripture Of The Golden Eternity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB C D D E F G D D B D D D D D D H I D B B D B J D B K L M

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Did I create that sky Yes for if it was anything other than a conception in my mind I wouldnt have said 'Sky' That is why I am the golden eternity There are not two of us here reader and writer but one one golden eternity One Which It Is That Which Everything IsB
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The awakened Buddha to show the way the chosen Messiah to die in the degradation of sentience is the golden eternity One that is what is the golden eternity or God or Tathagata the name The Named One The human God Sentient Godhood Animate Divine The Deified One The Verified One The Free One The Liberator The Still One The settled One The Established One Golden Eternity All is Well The Empty One The Ready One The Quitter The Sitter The Justified One The Happy OneC
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That sky if it was anything other than an illusion of my mortal mind I wouldnt have said 'that sky ' Thus I made that sky I am the golden eternity I am Mortal Golden EternityD
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I was awakened to show the way chosen to die in the degradation of life because I am Mortal Golden EternityD
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I am the golden eternity in mortal animate formE
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Strictly speaking there is no me because all is emptiness I am empty I am non existent All is blissF
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This truth law has no more reality than the worldG
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You are the golden eternity because there is no me and no you only one golden eternityD
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The Realizer Entertain no imaginations whatever for the thing is a no thing Knowing this then is Human GodhoodD
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This world is the movie of what everything is it is one movie made of the same stuff throughout belonging to nobody which is what everything isB
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If we were not all the golden eternity we wouldnt be here Because we are here we cant help being pure To tell man to be pure on account of the punishing angel that punishes the bad and the rewarding angel that rewards the good would be like telling the water 'Be Wet' Never the less all things depend on supreme reality which is already established as the record of Karma earned fateD
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God is not outside us but is just us the living and the dead the never lived and never died That we should learn it only now is supreme reality it was written a long time ago in the archives of universal mind it is already done there's no more to doD
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This is the knowledge that sees the golden eternity in all things which is us you me and which is no longer us you meD
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What name shall we give it which hath no name the common eternal matter of the mind If we were to call it essence some might think it meant perfume or gold or honey It is not even mind It is not even discussible groupable into words it is not even endless in fact it is not even mysterious or inscrutably inexplicable it is what is it is that it is this We could easily call the golden eternity 'This ' But 'what's in a name ' asked Shakespeare The golden eternity by another name would be as sweet A Tathagata a God a Buddha by another name an Allah a Sri Krishna a Coyote a Brahma a Mazda a Messiah an Amida an Aremedeia a Maitreya a Palalakonuh would be as sweet The golden eternity is X the golden eternity is A the golden eternity is the golden eternity is O the golden eternity is the golden eternity is t h e g o l d e n e t e r n i t y In the beginning was the word before the beginning in the beginningless infinite neverendingness was the essence Both the word 'god' and the essence of the word are emptiness The form of emptiness which is emptiness having taken the form of form is what you see and hear and feel right now and what you taste and smell and think as you read this Wait awhile close your eyes let your breathing stop three seconds or so listen to the inside silence in the womb of the world let your hands and nerve ends drop re recognize the bliss you forgot the emptiness and essence and ecstasy of ever having been and ever to be the golden eternity This is the lesson you forgotD
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The lesson was taught long ago in the other world systems that have naturally changed into the empty and awake and are here now smiling in our smile and scowling in our scowl It is only like the golden eternity pretending to be smiling and scowling to itself like a ripple on the smooth ocean of knowing The fate of humanity is to vanish into the golden eternity return pouring into its hands which are not hands The navel shall receive invert and take back what'd issued forth the ring of flesh shall close the personalities of long dead heroes are blank dirtD
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The point is we're waiting not how comfortable we are while waiting Paleolithic man waited by caves for the realization of why he was there and hunted modern men wait in beautified homes and try to forget death and birth We're waiting for the realization that this is the golden eternityD
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It came on timeH
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There is a blessedness surely to be believed and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy now and foreverI
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Mother Kali eats herself back All things but come to go All these holy forms unmanifest not even forms truebodies of blank bright ecstasy abiding in a trance 'in emptiness and silence' as it is pointed out in the Diamond cutter asked to be only what they are GLADD
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The secret God grin in the trees and in the teapot in ashes and fronds fire and brick flesh and mental human hope All things far from yearning to be re united with God had never left themselves and here they are Dharmakaya the body of the truth law the universal ThisnessB
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'Beyond the reach of change and fear beyond all praise and blame ' the Lankavatara Scripture knows to say is he who is what he is in time and time less ness in ego and in ego less ness in self and in self less nessB
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Stare deep into the world before you as if it were the void innumerable holy ghosts buddhies and savior gods there hide smiling All the atoms emitting light inside wavehood there is no personal separation of any of it A hummingbird can come into a house and a hawk will not so rest and be assured While looking for the light you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true lightD
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Things dont tire of going and coming The flies end up with the delicate viandsB
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The cause of the world's woe is birth The cure of the world's woe is a bent stickJ
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Though it is everything strictly speaking there is no golden eternity because everything is nothing there are no things and no goings and comings for all is emptiness and emptiness is these forms emptiness is this one formhoodD
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All these selfnesses have already vanished Einstein measured that this present universe is an expanding bubble and you know what that meansB
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Discard such definite imaginations of phenomena as your own self thou human being thou'rt a numberless mass of sun motes each mote a shrine The same as to your shyness of other selves selfness as divided into infinite numbers of beings or selfness as identified as one self existing eternally Be obliging and noble be generous with your time and help and possessions and be kind because the emptiness of this little place of flesh you carry around and call your soul your entity is the same emptiness in every direction of space unmeasurable emptiness the same one and holy emptiness everywhere why be selfy and unfree Man God in your dream Wake up thou'rt selfless and free 'Even and upright your mind abides nowhere ' states Hui Neng of China We're all in heaven nowK
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Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind Now that we know this throw the raft awayL
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Are you tightwad and are you mean those are the true sins and sin is only a conception of ours due to long habit Are you generous and are you kind those are the true virtues and they're only conceptions The golden eternity rests beyond sin and virtue is attached to neither is attached to nothingM

Jack Kerouac



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