Another Thing You Can Count On:
All measurements eventually mislead the mind.

 

 

When you consider the search for The Mystical Way,
consider this:
Man's instinctive nature has no way,
but rather is a way.

Things are arranged as they are
so that man will think as he does.
or
The way things are arranged
is the way man thinks.

Said one man, "The insightfully creative always do their work anonymously, which is why I am not the author of my words."

T.I.N.O.T.*
The teacher said, "Don't let the intellectuals confuse you."
And someone asked, "Which ones?"
And the sage replied, "Oh, I don't mean any 'out there' --
I mean those within you."

It might even be suggested that the enlightened state
is one in which life drives man's mind
as directly and effortlessly as it normally does his body.

It could also be plausible to describe the liberated condition
as being one wherein a man loses part of himself --
not his nature,
but his mind.

Or, looked at from another view:

You could say that the trick is to have one state of mind,
one consistent, undisturbed, indifferent state of mind.
(The key to said state being in the word "one.")

Mused one guy, "What need have I for a TV when I have the ceaseless chatter in my own head? Too bad I can't put a .38 slug in it like I did my old TV!"

And yet a final distinction:
The ordinary always want more -- a mystic, always less.
And an awakened man's only comment regarding the nature and operations of life would be:
"No comment."