*image by Ben Harubin

 

To be enlightened is to not know whether you exercise free will in living
your life or whether by living your life you produce free will -- and not caring!
(Above all -- and not caring!)

 

"Papa?" asked a lad. "Are there, as legends have it, marks, signs, and
extraordinary stigmas by which men more conscious may be recognized?"
"Indeed so," his father replied.
"And what might they be?" the boy further inquired.
To which his pater replied, "Most distinct is their lack of concern."
"About what?" asked the lad.
"Just lack of concern," replied the dad.

There is hip, and there is non-hip, and then there is super hip, which
occurs when the hip and the non-hip cannot determine whether or not
something is hip or non-hip.

Myth tells of a road to another world, by which was a sign that said:
"If You're Worried About It, Then It Is Not Life That You're Living."

The reality in which men's thoughts tell them they live is forever impossibly disjointed,
irrationally selective, and uselessly limited, a world that is seen solely through whatever
words the mind has available to describe it.

One man announced, "Two pieces of advice: one, old and worn out; the other,
new and worn out." "Don't be too quick to judge; don't be too quick to do
anything! Okay, so I 'm old and worn out! -- so what?"

Here's the way one man put it to himself:
"Okay, look, here's the deal: I'm either thinking of thought,
or thought is thinking for me."

Hey, is that a "deal" or what? (And upon hearing me say that, the man we
were just talking about said, "Cute, real cute.")