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Consciousness-without-an-object is.
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Before objects were, Consciousness-without-an-object is.
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Though objects seem to exist, Consciousness-without-an-object is.
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When objects vanish, yet remaining through all unaffected,
Consciousness-without-an-object is.
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Outside of Consciousness-without-an-object nothing is.
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Within the bosom of Consciousness-without-an-object is the power of awareness that projects objects.
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When objects are projected, the power of awareness as subject is presupposed, yet Consciousness-without-an-object remains unchanged.
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When consciousness of objects is born, then, likewise,
consciousness of absence of objects arises.
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Consciousness of objects is the Universe.
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Consciousness of absence of objects is Nirvana.
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Within Consciousness-without-an-object lie both the Universe and Nirvana, yet to Consciousness-without-an-object these two are the same.
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Within Consciousness-without-an-object lies the seed of Time.
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When awareness cognizes Time then knowledge of Timelessness is born.
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To be aware of Time is to be aware of the Universe, and to be aware of the Universe is to be aware of Time.
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To realize Timelessness is to attain Nirvana.
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But for Consciousness-without-an-object there is no difference between Time and Timelessness.
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Within Consciousness-without-an-object lies the seed of the world-containing Space.
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When awareness cognizes the world-containing Space then knowledge of the Spatial Void is born.
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To be aware of the world-containing Space is to be aware of the Universe of Objects.
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To realize the Spatial Void is to awaken to Nirvanic Consciousness.
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But for Consciousness-without-an-object there is no difference between the world-containing Space and the Spatial Void.
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Within Consciousness-without-an-object lies the Seed of Law.
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When consciousness of objects is born
the Law is invoked as a Force tending ever toward Equilibrium.
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All objects exist as tensions within Consciousness-without-an-object that tend ever to flow into their own complements or others.
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The ultimate effect of the flow of all objects
into their complements is mutual cancellation in complete Equilibrium.
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Consciousness of the field of tensions is the Universe.
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Consciousness of Equilibrium is Nirvana.
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But for Consciousness-without-an-object there is neither tension nor Equilibrium.
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The state of tensions is the state of ever-becoming.
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Ever-becoming is endless-dying.
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So the state of consciousness of objects
is a state of ever-renewing promises that pass into death at the moment of fulfillment.
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Thus when consciousness is attached to objects the agony of birth and death never ceases.
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In the state of Equilibrium where birth cancels death the deathless Bliss of Nirvana is realized.
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But Consciousness-without-an object is neither agony nor bliss.
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Out of the Great Void, which is Consciousness-without-an-object, the Universe is creatively projected.
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The Universe as experienced is the created negation that ever resists.
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The creative act is bliss, the resistance, unending pain.
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Endless resistance is the Universe of experience; the agony of crucifixion.
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Ceaseless creativeness is Nirvana, the Bliss beyond human conceiving.
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But for Consciousness-without-an-object there is neither creativeness nor resistance.
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Ever-becoming and ever-ceasing-to-be are endless action.
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When ever-becoming cancels the ever-ceasing-to-be then Rest is realized.
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Ceaseless action is the Universe.
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Unending Rest is Nirvana.
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But Consciousness-without-an-object is neither Action nor Rest.
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When consciousness is attached to objects it is restricted through the forms imposed by the world-containing Space, by Time, and by Law.
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When consciousness is disengaged from objects, Liberation from the forms of the world-containing Space, of Time, and of Law is attained.
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Attachment to objects is consciousness bound within the Universe.
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Liberation from such attachment is the State of unlimited Nirvanic Freedom.
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But Consciousness-without-an-object is neither bondage nor freedom.
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Consciousness-without-an-object may be symbolized by a SPACE that is unaffected by the presence or absence of objects, for which there is neither Time nor Timelessness; neither a world-containing Space nor a Spatial Void, neither Tension nor Equilibrium; neither Resistance nor Creativeness; neither Agony nor Bliss; neither Action nor Rest; and neither Restriction nor freedom.
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As the GREAT SPACE is not to be identified with the Universe, so neither is It to be identified with any Self.
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The GREAT SPACE is not God, but the comprehender of all Gods, as well as of all lesser creatures.
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The GREAT SPACE, or Consciousness-without-an-object, is the
Sole Reality upon which all objects and all selves depend and derive their existence.
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The GREAT SPACE comprehends both the Path of the Universe and the Path of Nirvana.
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Beside the GREAT SPACE there is none other.
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