The Light of Pure Consciousness

The Light of Pure Consciousness 

                                                                 

Dive deep into the ocean of being

Enter the temple of Stillness

Through the silent gateway

Between thoughts

Examine the ‘I’ and its entourage:

Sensory perceptions, feelings, 

thoughts, concepts, beliefs

Hold them, one by one

In the mirror of the inner eye

And ask

“Where do you come from?

Where do you go?

Are you who ‘I’ am?

And if you choose to vanish

Do ‘I’ remain?”

Dissolve all things

Completely and utterly

Into nothingness

Then ask

“Who am I?”

All will fall away

Only the One shall stay

It is

Awareness

Primordial

Before thought

Before form

Before time itself

Luminous, self-sufficient and untouched

The phenomenal world arises from nothingness

And returns to nothingness

Each moment

In the light of Pure Consciousness

by Joseph Rundle