*image by Ben Harubin

A Brief Yet Comprehensive Explanation Of The Problem Of Talk And Reality:
If you can talk about it, it's not real.

One man who felt continually "edgy and hostile" believed that it all came
from his thinking -- turned out that it all came from his edginess and hostility.

The biggest thing that "those-who-don't-know" don't know is that things are
like they are.

A man asked a mystic, "Can what has been called the awakened mind be described?"
And the hot-wired one replied, "If there is such a thing as an awakened mind, it would
be one that had lost its stickiness."

 

Zoological Curiosity:
Certain creatures, when they are born, come forth bereft of fur, feathers, or scales.

One guy once involved with stuff like this promoted an approach that he called
"Snap out of it!" (The advanced version he referred to as "Snap out of trying to
snap out of it!")

One man mused, "This is progress? -- going from believing that everything I
know is wrong, to perceiving everything I know to be meaningless?"
"This is progress?" Then, after a few seconds, replied, "Yeah, that IS progress!"

One man's present reminder to himself reads:
"After you've done all you can with the mind,
all you can do then is watch your step."

As a visitor to a mystical lodge was about to take his leave, he asked the
head of the order how he had come to his position, and he replied,
"Of all those here who had no idea what they were doing, I had the least."
"Watch your step."