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The Mirage of Separation
120pp. Price: £7.95/ $13.95 Website: http://www.billy-doyle-yoga.com
Billy Doyle is a well known and inspiring yoga teacher, but he is also a poet. The Mirage of Separation is a collection of poetry and verse reflecting different facets of the non-dual perspective. About the author
Excerpts Introduction These writings come from a non-dualistic perspective. Our focus is on the nature of our real identity. Until we come to know it, we are lost in a world of ignorance. Our basic mistake, and from which all other mistakes arise, is to identify ourselves with an object: the body-mind. In doing so we lose sight of our true nature, consciousness, pure awareness, taking ourselves to be an expression of life, rather than life itself. Thereby we become engrossed in the world of a personalised I; it is this pseudo-I that usurps our real identity. This I-image, the ego, is no more than a collection of shifting ideas and experiences, with no independent reality. In taking ourselves to be a separate entity we have come adrift from our homeground, and inevitably fear and desire arise. In compensation we pursue happiness and security and try to escape pain and sorrow. It is only when we understand the illusionary nature of this projection that we become open to our real nature, that which is beyond the mind. The Self is not something new to be attained, for it ever is; it has only to be recognized. However we can never know the Self as we would an object, for it is the ultimate knower, neither perceivable, nor conceivable; we can only be it. Its nature is self-luminous. there was life then there was life and somebody living life then there was life but nobody living life then there was life
Page 1 it’s before you see it’s before you hear it’s before you think how can you doubt it it’s nearer than the nearest it needs no eyes to see it it needs no ears to hear it it needs no mind to think it Page 40 there is no path to take you any closer to me there is no path to take you any further away how could there be I abide in the Heart Page 60 nothing has ever been held back emptiness has always been fullness love has never kept anything for itself nothing is missing the well is always overflowing only in the dream
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