*image by Ben Harubin

It is impossible to comprehend the essence of a pond while standing in it up
to the waist -- 'tis only once out of it that its illusionary nature is apparent.

A man said to a mystic, "I have heard you speak, and much of what you say I do
not understand, and some of what you say I believe to be incorrect, but I find it all
fascinating and would like to discuss and debate your ideas with you so that I might
make more sense of them."

And the mystic replied, "I will decline your offer, for nothing I say does make
any sense, and you either understand that immediately upon hearing it or you don't,
and no amount of subsequent talking about it will change the situation."

Only after you hang up the phone does the conversation become clear.

Said one man, "I'll tell you the greatest development ever -- the off switch."
"You mean on your TV set?" someone responded.
"No," he said.
"Then you must mean the one on your computer."
"No," he again replied. "I just mean the off switch."

To try and treat the mind with the mind is to be forever captured
by the illusion that the illness is the medicine.

A man asked one he believed experienced in such matters, "Do people really wake up?"
And received the reply, "It's more a matter of getting through the morass of sleep."