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EXISTENCE and BEING
Ergo sum, in being I am absolute,
Monad in the currency of time,
I prevail in essence and reality,
I exist, and become to evolve.
I resist absence and emptiness,
The vacuum of the nothing and the void.
Nirvana is nowhere, null and groundless,
The neverness of life unbegotten.
My reality is the stuff of visibility,
The matter of plenum and of things,
Substantial, concrete, and solid -
Body, flesh, pith, marrow, meat.
I resist vacant inane Maya,
Gauzy ghostly vague and hollow shadows,
Dreams of folly, fancy, and figures,
Figments of vain fantasy and fallacy.
Inherent is the inwardness of ego,
Intrinsic and generic to the self,
Essential in all aspects and features,
Implicit and autistic in the gist.
Outward is an accident of foreignness,
Collateral and appendaged to the id,
Incidental to the basic nub of being,
Casual to the quid per se — the ideal
Of State, of place, and circumstance,
The shape of things as they stand,
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