Conversation.
“Do you want to know the simple, direct way to achieve enlightenment?”
    “Yes.”
“You know the talk you hear in your head?”
    “Yes.”
“Don’t listen to it.”
     “Do you mean…”
“Don’t listen to it.”
      “But I wanted to ask you specifically…”
“I know what you want to ask, but I only have one thing to say:
Don’t listen to it  –  any  of it  --  period!”
A curious footnote to this is that even if you didn’t follow his suggestion,
but rather just thought through this idea to its conclusion,
that alone would shake you from your present state of consciousness;
is that not interesting: like a medicine you’re handed that you never take,
yet just the exhaustive pondering of the bottle gets the job done.
    (“I suppose this should be telling me something quite explosive about my…”
Yes it should.)
 
 

How Mind Works.
Says one man: “Even though some people believe it is imaginary:
the way I know that Heaven actually exists is that everyone who believes in it,
knows exactly what it looks like.”
    “(Wow!  –  what if mind ever knew the same about its own operations!”)
 
 

A man asked his brother: “Have you noticed that only unglamorous women
condemn photography glamorizing beautiful women?” --
to which his sibling responded:
 “And that only the sleeping attack those wanting to awaken?”
 
 

Ordinary people have nothing but their looks;
talented people, nothing but their art;
rich people, nothing but their wealth,
while the man-who-knows has nothing  --  which is to say that
the man-who-knows has it all  --  which is to say: nothing.
 
 

Conversation II.
“Why isn’t speech considered one of our senses?”
    “Because senses are facilities for taking in information,
      not spewing it out as talk does.”
“Ah! –  how little you understand my friend.”
 
 

Regarding The Mythical Train Journey 'Tween Mundane-Paris & Awakened-Istanbul:

After years of striving to make himself: “dot every i  and cross every t”
one man says his position now is to use as little as possible words containing either of these two letters.
Question: In how many forms comes progress?  --  and speaking of grammar:
there’s this other guy who can’t speel worth a shit.
       Definition.
       It’s ironic when someone else does it;
       a technological error when it happens to you.
 
 

One chap’s free advice:
“Never pay good money just to hear what seriousness is pointing at today.”
 
 

Man, His Thoughts, And The Notion Of Free Will: The Final Word.
There was once a boat,
that had a wheel,
that was lashed to its rudder.
     (“Was that really the final word?”
Do the sirens hold fee simple title to the rocks?
     “Are you referring to: being-ship-wrecked-by-listening-to-your-own-voice?”)
 
 

For the man wishing to make the great metaphysical journey:

One man’s stance:
“The best thing about making notes to yourself is throwing them away.
If upon hearing, reading or thinking a certain thing
I feel it is of such importance that I most certainly should remember it,
but fear that without writing it down, I won’t,
should that fact alone be informing me of something significant?”
    “Do you mean about the sorts of things you find important or about you?”
“What kind of smart-ass comment is that!”
Cosmological Update: There is a spot in the universe whereat are produced
all comments for which there is no meaningful response.
    “Where exactly?”
Much closer than you’re probably imagining.
 
 

Employing the well used royal self reference: one man,
often after saying something that proved inappropriate, would mutter to himself:
“We are not amused,”
then one day his self suddenly spoke up: “Where do you get this ‘we’ stuff!”
 
 

In music news a father said to a son:
“You're not a true composer unless you do both the words and music.”
(It's assumed you understand the actual sort of songwriting that's being referred to.)
 

People who enjoy talking about their self

                                        At certain times,
                                        in certain struggles,
                                        inaction and silence are the proper approach;
                                        this is true both externally and otherwise.
 
 

Once you see what life is really about: cutting back on talk is no longer a problem.