I Am The Way

"Not this, not this", I am not this
And yet, all I perceive I co-create
This, this - I am all this


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The way up is the way down
one descends downward, one stretches upward
both reach the Crown and Kingdom

(the know-it-all asks "but what about the road itself, is that not a jewel on the crown or part of the kingdom which you make out to be all that important?!")
(the know-it-all-not answers "the snake cannot both reach somewhere and bite itself in the tail")
(the know-it-all asks "but is the tail not precisely 'somewhere'"?!)
(the know-it-all-not answers "if it does not also bite itself")
(the know-it-all says "aha! I caught you, what about 'both ways reaching the Crown and Kingdom?!'")
(the know-it-all-not answers "they do")
(the know-it-all concludes "it is you then who is the snake, and just as you teach others the importance of silence, so you should realize that those with forked tongues do best to bite them!")
...
(the know-it-all-not answers "you have found the void at the center of the snake biting its tail, and in doing so it would seem that you have caught yourself by biting more than you can chew, thus leaving a wound with unending trail. But that's ok - that trail too reaches the Kingdom!")


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One might speak of returning
from the journey
but also about returning
to the journey