being human is completely conditional;
there is no there there.
every word i speak is a word
that i've been taught.
there is nothing authentic
in the person i am.
the only authenticity is in the i-am.
i-am is beyond any thought.
it could be said the i-am is
in the realm of intuition,
but that is not exactly correct;
intuition is the i-am
as experienced by the person.
since the person is
a figment of imagination,
intuition is also such.
even the i-am ultimately is a concept,
the primal concept arising in Pure Mind,
the one concept on which all
concepts appear like waves.
as if the big bang was really
the big dream arising
out of the ultimate absence
and becoming more present
in texture as context arose—
for the universe is in the sentience
and not vice versa.
and the universe is one mind
in which the sentience of
the so-called human being is
the crown of creation,
the one and only breaking wave.
for it's only consciousness,
the one i-am,
which sees itself
and knows what it is and what it's not —
and what isn't
what is and what is not
is prior to this sutra.