Through the door of Birth,
enter in Creaturehood the room that is Being Itself.
Act only to perceive the contents
of the room: What Is.
Proceed with humility as a student of all
you encounter.
Ask no questions in anticipation of what you may find
the room to contain,
For asking such a question requires that you first posit
its terms,
limiting your subsequent perception
to that which you prejudge fits
the frame of an answer.
Entering the room of self-aware Being,
Go in Observation.
Go before questioning and the framing of questions,
before the invention of answers,
before begging the permission of language
to predict or second Perception
or communicate Understanding.
Go without burdening Memory
with anagramming Futurity.
Go intent only on Seeing.
This, and only this, is Faith.
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