no there sutra

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.