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Your perception of reality is limited by your senses.

The world is not as it seems.

It is illusion.

Tree, flower, bird – your names are founded on illusion.

You have built your world on illusion,

Your self on illusion.

You are deceived.

You are the watcher of perception.  You are the watcher of the name.

You exist independent of the senses. You exist independent of the name.

You exist independent of your humanity, which is only another name.

And yet, there is no other way but deception.

In this life you can only embrace the illusion,

While remembering that you are not of it –

There exists Mystery beyond.