*image by Ben Harubin

Since they see there is no inside or outside to life,
why do men believe that there is to them?

A man once went to a mystic and said, "Are you trying to secretly 'tell me something'?"
To which the mystic replied, "You're the one who brought it up."

One man thought, "If it is just our mind that can be enlightened,
then it strikes me that we're in deep, deep trouble."

A man reminded himself, "One more conscious would not think of differences,
but would he also not feel any differences?..."
And upon reaching this point wandered off, pondering in what ways the two
are connected, and how such info might be put to practical use.

Whenever this one man wanted a laugh,
he'd stroll up and down the shelves at the library
just reading the titles of books.

Going into his favorite hardware store
(the self-proclaimed "Home of Ten Thousand Gadgets"),
he found them busily removing items that had proven useless for completing a certain job.
...The place was damn-near empty!

One man developed this rule in talking to the extraordinary:
"Never tell a mystic that you don't know what he means, lest he tell you that he doesn't either."