*image by Ben Harubin

 

 

A mother so instructed a daughter,
"It's okay being an idiot as long as you're aware of your condition."

 

One man measures what he refers to as his "progress" like this,
"I am no longer deceived, deprived, or angry at the world, I am simply a weak,
lazy, distracted lardass, incapable, or else indisposed, to be otherwise."

Question: How do all metaphysical lies begin?
With such words as "there are two types of men," or "there are three forms of reality,"
or "there are four great Truths" (and so on along such divisionary lines).

Shortcut To Madness:
One cow instructing other cows.

Men want to please and seek favor from one another more
than is commonly perceived.

A girl asked a mystic, "Do the enlightened have nightmares?"
"Yes," he replied.
"Then how do they differ from ordinary men? What do they think of the nightmares?"
"That is how they differ," he replied. "When they have nightmares, they think,
'There went a nightmare,' and that's the end of it."

After laughing at the title of a book, "Modern Psychiatry,"
a man asked himself which part he was laughing at.

Claiming to have a certain pride and respect for the mind,
one man says that he does not consider any "looking back"
as a form of thinking.

(Hey, sounds like, could be a start.)

When someone asked a mystic what good deeds and practices an awakened man would pursue,
he replied, "The deed of not asking about practices, and the practice of not thinking about deeds."