*image by Ben Harubin

 

Relationships: Wanting others to feel like you do.

See, like here's this, kinda like, little joke:
See, there's this ventriloquist who keeps hearing noises in his house, but
like every time he goes to see what it is all he finds is his dummy lying there.
Funny, huh?

No matter the would-be enlightened man's question,
it's always the same answer -- quiet.

Heeding no thoughts about yourself
is liberation from yourself.

On one part of the field, a man began to bounce up and down while chanting,
"Effort, effort -- who's got the effort?"
Then eventually another man appeared on another part of the field who began
what seemed to be a responsive chant (that went), "Where to apply it --
where to apply it -- who in god's name knows where to apply it?"
(Which, I guess, pissed off the first man, 'cause he left after that.
Well, hey, isn't it about time that it pissed you off?])

Once upon a time, a fake deity gave a man his choice of two prizes.
One, he could be enlightened sometime in the future. Or, two, he could
have the possibility of actually EXPERIENCING IT!
And after the man thought about it for a bit and said he didn't get it, that
he didn't see the difference in the two, the sham god waved him away with
his hand and told him to forget it.