*image by Ben Harubin

 

A boy asked his father, "Is there any type of struggle with yourself
that is wasteful and improper?"
"Yes," replied the elder, "if you come to see it for yourself."
"And what type of struggle would that be?" asked the lad.
"Any type," he replied.
"If you see so for yourself," he reminded.

A man complained to a mystic, "Since I've undertaken the observation of my thoughts,
it seems as though they have multiplied, and thus disturb me even more than before."
To which the latter replied, "Since you can only think sequentially, of one thing at a time,
this is not possible -- it is something else that you are experiencing."

Believing that you can awaken the mind will cause you to forget what you
look like and lead you in pursuit of your reflection.

After observing his son wrestle with a certain idea for some time, the
father touched him on the shoulder and said, "It's not so much a matter of
there being no meaning to life, as it is that there is no meaning to your
thoughts about life."

A guy on the street walked up to a man and demanded, "Are you happy?"
And the man replied, "I was until you made me answer that."

When you're not clinging to thought, you then only care about what you
REALLY care about.

Life speaks to man in a special way which he does not hear when he is
talking to himself.

The more that you let thought pass unencumbered through you,
the more that you think it to be you.