*image by Ben Harubin

Time is the illusionary realm of preferences...

when your thoughts wander away
from what you are doing now, they become hopelessly entangled in meaningless
preferences (for with those wanting to awaken, all mental preferences are meaningless).
Yet another basis for reminding yourself to keep your mind on what you're doing.

Why do those with the interest to awaken have such a history of devotion to drumming?
Why do those with the interest in enlightenment have such a history of denouncing drumming?
Who realizes some sort of something going on between habitual thoughts (ain't they all?)
and a constant tempo (of which in ordinary life, ain't they all).

And now we move on to another area:
More About Tempo:
What good is knowing the "right answer" on the wrong test day?

Everything's great -- in theory.
...Wait, all kinds of ideas are great...in theory.
...Okay, all sorts of theories are great...in theory.
...All right already, the mind can find almost any idea to "sound good"
as long as attention is not directed to the immediate here-and-now.

The awareness of the here-and-now is the destroyer of all illusions.

More About Parrots...Maybe:
One man asserts that, contrary to claims of a solitary consumption,
we have in fact ingested two talking birds, one apparently subsequent to the other,
and one seemingly with a more forceful voice than the other.
The purpose of and objective reality of these perceived differences he admits
he's unable to provide -- and yet the validity of his observations (he insists) remains.

With full attention given thereto, the immediate moment will always be
found to be empty, impassionate, and uneventful--ergo the mind is forever
striving to introduce excitement thereto through imaginary pictures of
other times and other places.