*image by Ben Harubin

 

Today's Question:
Why have a poor opinion of yourself
when you can have none?

The liberated mind is like a flashlight that eats its batteries.

Today's Other Question:
Why suffer from low self-esteem
when you can suffer from no self at all?

The speaker expounded, "The personal lives of awakened men read like a joke."
And one of his listeners called out, "But isn't the joke on those who peruse
such worthless tales?"
A comment in reaction to which the speaker dropped into momentary,
apparently silent reflection, finally replying, "Well...yeah! but Jeeze! I
had no idea you people were actually paying any attention to what I was
saying."

So the voice in the crowd called back, "Then this time I guess the joke's on you."
And as everyone was having a hearty laugh at his perceived expense, the speaker
spread that special inflammable fluid over all of the neurons in his brain that were
participating in the above-covered scene, as he simultaneously reminded himself
that whenever you talk, especially to yourself, the joke, whether realized or not,
is always on you.

The "Ultimate Lesson" regarding talk is that, even though it never gets you
anywhere you want to go, it's activity can so camouflage the fact that
you're likely to take the noise for the achievement.

There's nowhere else to go, and no extraordinary times yet to arrive.
The air you breathe
when you go into a trance
is the same you inhale
when you revive.