Name and form hide Reality: This is the Teaching.
Giving name and form is an obstacle to Freedom
because then the Substratum, Consciousness,
cannot be seen.
Call it a statue of a horse and the granite is hidden,
see a ring and you wont see the gold.
Name and form can never leave Consciousness,
as the ring can never leave the gold.
Before a wave rises it is Ocean,
before desire moves it is Emptiness.
Destroy craving and bondage
by identifying as Experiencing, not experience,
as Seeing, not the seer.
You are Consciousness,
not the one who is conscious.