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Speaker 1: The original simplicity. Life is simple, being is simple, The

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universe is simple. Complexity arises in ignorance and self delusion.

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The original simplicity of Lautsu is a term expressive of

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the universe as it is and not as it appears.

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Looking through the woven network of his own illusions, man

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sees interminable complication and unfathomable mystery, and so loses himself

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in the labyrinths of his own making. Let a man

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put away egotism, and he will see the universe in

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all the beauty of its pristine simplicity. Let him annihilate

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the delusion of the personal eye, and he will destroy

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all the illusions which spring from that eye. He will

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thus re become a little child, and will revert to

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original simplicity. When a man succeeds in entirely forgetting and

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annihilating his personal self, he becomes a mirror in which

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the universal reality is faultlessly reflected. He is awakened, and

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henceforward he lives not in dreams, but in realities. Pythagoras

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saw the universe in the ten numbers. But even this

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simplicity may be further reduced, and the universe ultimately found

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to be contained in the number one. For all the

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numerals and all their infinite complications, are but additions of

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the one. Let life cease to be lived as a

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fragmentary thing, and let it be lived as a perfect whole.

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The simplicity of the perfect will then be revealed. How

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shall the fragment comprehend the whole? Yet how simple that

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the whole should comprehend the fragment. How shall sin perceive holiness?

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Yet how plain that holiness should understand sin? Who would

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become the greater? Let him abandon the lesser. In no

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form is the circle contained, but in the circle all

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forms are contained. In no color is the radiant light imprisoned,

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But in the radiant light all colors are embodied. Let

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a man destroy all forms of self, and he shall

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apprehend the circle of perfection. Let him submerge in the

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silent depths of his being, the varying colors of his

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thoughts and desires, and he shall be illuminated with the

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white light of divine knowledge. In the perfect chord of music,

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the single note, though forgotten, is indispensably contained, And the

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drop of water becomes of supreme usefulness By losing itself

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in the ocean. Sink thyself compassionately in the heart of humanity,

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and thou shalt reproduce the harmonies of heaven. Lose thyself

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an unlimited love toward all, and thou shalt work enduring works,

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and shalt become one with the eternal ocean of bliss.

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Man evolves outward to the periphery of complexity, and then

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evolves backward to the central simplicity. When a man discovers

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that it is mathematically impossible for him to know the

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universe before knowing himself, he starts upon the way which

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leads to the original simplicity. He begins to unfold from within,

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and as he unfolds himself, he unfolds the universe is

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himself a microcosm. Cease to speculate about God and find

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thee all embracing good within thee. So shalt thou see

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the emptiness and vanity of speculation, knowing thyself one with God.

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He who will not give up his secret lust, his covetuousness,

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his anger, his opinion about this or that, can see

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nor know nothing. He will remain a duller in the

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school of wisdom, though he be accounted, learned in the colleges.

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If a man would find the key of knowledge, let

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him find himself. Thy sins are not thyself, They are

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not any part of thyself. They are diseases which thou

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hast come to love. Cease to cling to them, and

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they will no longer cling to thee. Let them fall away,

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and thyself shall stand revealed. Thou shalt then know thyself

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as comprehensive vision, invincible principle, immortal life, and eternal good.

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The impure man believes impurity to be his rightful condition,

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but the pure man knows himself as a pure being.

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He also, penetrating the veils, sees all others as pure being.

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Purity is extremely simple and needs no argument to support it.

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Impurity is interminably complex and is ever involved in defensive argument.

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Truth lives itself a blameless life is the only witness

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of truth. Men cannot see and will not accept the

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witness until they find it within themselves, and having found it,

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a man becomes silent before his fellows. Truth is so

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simple that it cannot be found in the region of

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argument and advertisement, and so silent that it is only

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manifested in actions. So extremely simple is original simplicity, that

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a man must let go his hold of everything before

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he can perceive it. The great arch is strong by

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virtue of the hollowness underneath, and a wise man becomes

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strong and invincible by emptying himself. Meekness, patience, love, compassion,

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and wisdom. These are the dominant qualities of original simplicity.

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Wherefore the imperfect cannot understand it. Wisdom can only apprehend wisdom.

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Wherefore the fool says, no man is wise. The imperfect

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man says, no man can be perfect, And wherefore he

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remains where he is. Though he live with a perfect

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man all his life, he shall not behold his perfection.

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Meekness he will call cowardice, patience, love, and compassion. He

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will see his weakness, and wisdom will appear to him

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as folly. Faultless. Discrimination belongs to the perfect whole, and

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resides not in any part. Wherefore men are exhorted to

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refrain from judgment until they have themselves manifested the perfect life.

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Arriving at original simplicity, opacity disappears, and the universal transparency

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becomes apparent. He who has found the indwelling reality of

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his own being has found the original and universal reality.

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Knowing the divine life within the hearts of all are known,

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and the thoughts of all men become his, who has

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become the master of his own thoughts. Wherefore, the good

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man does not defend himself, but molds the minds of

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others to his own likeness. As the problematical transcends crudity,

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so pure goodness transcends the problematical. All problems vanish when

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pure goodness is reached. Therefore the good man is called

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the slayer of illusions? What problem can vex? Where sin

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is not? O Thou, who strivest loudly and restest not

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retire into the holy silence of thine own being and

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live therefrom So shalt thou, finding pure goodness, rend in

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twain the veil of the temple of illusion, and shalt

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enter into the patience, peace, and transcendent glory of the perfect.

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For pure goodness and original simplicity are one