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Transcendence and Immanence


I am the dreamer of myself in the dream in which I appear, but as such what I am is not the objective (dreamed) appearance, and so I am no entity.

It is not the object that awakens, but it is the identification of the dreamer with his object that causes the illusion of bondage.

Awakening is disappearing, dissolving, vanishing as an object. Awakening is the dissolution of appearance, the evaporation of a dream or an illusion.

Awakening is the dis-appearance of phenomenality (of the objective, of all objectivity as such). Awakening is the dis-covery that the apparently objective is in fact 'subjective', and the apparent entity has dis-appeared with the total appearance.


(© HKU Press, 1965)
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