*image by Ben Harubin

It is called being enlightened, being awake, being liberated,
but it is all the same -- it is knowing what life is about.
So -- an enlightened or awakened man is simply a "knower,"
while everyone else is a guesser or speculator.

Regarding Approaches:
Whenever this one man would not simply want to go up in the elevator,
but to stay up, he would look at himself and say, "Watch your feet."
(Well, hey! -- it's just an "approach.")

Someone asked a man, "What are you against?"
"Nothing," he replied.
"That can't be," they said.
So he said, "Everything."
And they said, "But you can't be against everything!"
And he replied, "All right -- nothing."
And they said, "But everyone must be against something."
So he replied, "All right -- everything."
And they said, "But no one can be against everything."
So he replied, "All right -- nothing."

One man had a thing he couldn't let go of, a thing he wanted to let go of,
a thing he thought he'd be better off letting go of, but still he couldn't
seem to let go of it.

Great God A'mighty! -- what kinda thang is that, Hubert?

And let us never forget those hearty souls who fearlessly changed their
Name to Pasadena so as to be continually closer in spirit to life's great
parade and the soothing fragrance of our flora friends.

Many are those who have set foot on the mystical path only to disappear due
to its slippery, silly sub-stratum -- many perhaps, but not enough.