Mirage of Separation

Doyle, Billy

• Publisher: Non-Duality
• Year: 1010
• eBook ISBN: 9781626256880

The Mirage of Separation is a collection of poetry and verse reflecting different facets of the non-dual perspective. Billy Doyle lives in London and teaches yoga in the Kashmir Tradition, an approach brought to the West by Jean Klein.

Table of contents

• there was life
• can I live with the question
• the great understanding
• time is not
• you say the journey needs time
• we’re invited to sit at the king’s table
• on hearing the fish in the water
• the sunlight cannot penetrate through
• to see the orchid
• the ego seems to take on
• the little I that has taken
• what you really desire is me
• desire is a black hole
• when you’ve gone to the
• bring back your centre of gravity
• why do we impose
• when you take yourself
• when you use the word I
• pure subjectivity
• form is an expression of the formless
• after eliminating each layer
• in the Self
• the scent of the rose
• meditation
• there is not
• volition is the devil
• your compassion for the world is admirable
• fighting the ego is a great battle
• the ego is as sticky as glue
• the winds of thought
• not the faintest whiff of objectivity
• There was once a fish called Agonda
• There was once a king called Alexi, who on
• you know the world around you
• it is ignorance to know
• the tree you can touch
• don’t try to be aware
• it’s before you see
• the concept is an abstraction
• the ego is a prison
• the ego is like the devil
• the sky is deep blue
• the sun shines
• don’t stoke up the fire
• that whole tale of a me
• eternity is in this moment
• discover what is not born
• why not stand aside
• if you know whilst dreaming
• don’t wait to become perfect
• why this waiting
• love’s look is indiscriminate
• this one sees and hears only itself
• at the moment of death
• there is no security in a me
• here is the invitation
• death, go deep within
• there is no path to take you
• sit in the Self
• gold is shaped into many ornaments
• when you are one of the branches of the tree
• you cannot become other than you are
• that which is nameless and formless
• in the direct approach
• for the divine to enter
• People spend a lifetime trying to control the mind, but to what purpose? The controller with its agenda of controlling only reinforces the centre, the I-image, that which it is trying to free itself from.
• there are many techniques
• I keep myself veiled
• I’m there between each breath
• don’t take the in-breath
• though it’s remarkably close
• sweep out the last dust of volition
• there comes a time
• karma is for him who
• remove everything
• in the midst of a chaotic world
• what is there before the thought
• oceans
• no hold
• forest fires cannot burn it
• the temple of nothingness
• when we reach the end of our lives
• all that is acquired
• what is this me
• not a journey for the faint-hearted
• it is this, here, now
• have you noticed
• when there is a glimpse
• in the moment there is no space
• the dark muddy river
• the greatest joy is to be
• silence, stillness
• nothing has ever been held back
• after a lifetime
• knowledge brings innocence
• it is born and then dies
• who am I
• here, if there can be a here
• be detached from the world
• stack the funeral pyre high
• joy needs no cause or excuse
• what you are needs no embellishment
• you would like to give up
• wisdom is understanding
• there is only this
• what you are is non-conceptual
• the moon has no light of its own
• peace is not the peace
• thoughts come and go
• do not go to the temple
• that which you seek
• the usurper of the Self
• it’s but name and form
• if there is a path to understanding
• Consciousness, there is no looking for, no possibility of experiencing, because you can only experience what is outside yourself, an object, phenomena. It is because you are so deeply anchored, inseparable from consciousness, the noumenon, you cannot exp
• the silence
• a vigil for the Self
• follow the language