*image by Ben Harubin

 

If where you sit now has become comfortable,
you are either awake or still
in a sorry state.

The movements of the mind make the mind;
the movements of the mind create consciousness;
the movements of the mind produce intelligence;
the movements of the mind cause us to become confused;
the movements of the mind put men in captivity;
and it is the movements of the mind which point the way out.

"Hi, movements!
How goes it?"

A note found in a cream-filled doughnut said:
"Taking the imaginary seriously could (some day)
make you miss taking what is serious seriously."

(And someone shouted, "The Kaiser LIVES!"
just before the thing blew up!)

A boy said to his father, "I guess the whole of religion is pretty distant
from the reality of awakening?"
"Yep," replied the old man.
And the lad continued, "And I reckon that the totality of psychology is much
afield from the experiences of enlightenment?"
"Yep," the elder again replied.
And after a silent second the younger again spoke, "To save us unnecessary
conversation, should I go ahead and say that I assume that almost everything
in everyday life is fairly well distinct and removed from the activities I
just mentioned?"
"Yep, for sure," the father replied. "In that by their very nature they are
so set apart from man's mental conceptions of what his everyday life is.
Yep, and double yep."

Perhaps the most overlooked force in the life of man is his desire to have
someone else help distract him.

A man paid an office visit to one who specialized in the area of "Public
And Private Attempts To Achieve That Change-Of-Mind And Awaken"
and said to the expert, "Sir, after my many years of effort, I now have only
three categories of thoughts: thoughts about being more conscious, thoughts
that are somewhere else, and the sudden realization that my thoughts were
somewhere else." "And here is my question. Am I going about this correctly?
...Is what I've done appropriate to the aim? But shouldn't there be more categories?"
And finally the professional spoke, "Or at least fewer?"