Would-Be Mystical Behavior:
Men are made to try and affect
their uncontrolled behavior by
endlessly debating its causes.

 

Where there's water....
The alert will drink, never asking its source.
Seeking shelter from the rain,
The awakened cease directly their grasping at the clouds,
With no wasted stages of hand-reprimands, or
The myth-icising of meteorology.

A man asked, "If it's so simple, why can't everyone do it!?"
And a man replied, "If everyone can't do it, then why make it simple!?"
And for routine minds, endless debate answers all,
But will not keep the few dry in a storm.

A man asked a mystic, "What does being glib and verbally clever have to do with awakening?"
And since it was himself, he replied, "Well actually, very little but neither does anything else."
(And was satisfied with the response.)

A certain man,
In search of a certain achievement,
decided that his efforts would be aided if
every day he would say one less word.

After pursuing this course for a while
he concluded that for maximum results
he should apply the same technique to his thinking.

A certain recycled "wise man" once told a seeker,
"The journey from here to China is made, one-step-at-a-time." But, quickly calculating the actual distance involved, the man immediately realized that at the rate of "one step at a time,"
He-should-live-so-long!

So you see, the deep personal satisfaction, and questionable joy of finally realizing just what this is all about is in being bluntly confronted with how far away it is, and how much it is rudely-in-your-face.
"All in all," thought one man, “it's still easier to be religious or scientific, because you can always look somewhere else.”

An ancient legend that I made up says that there was once a great mystical school which had, above its main gate, a sign that greeted those who drew near with
"All ye who enter here
abandon any hope that anyone
actually KNOWS what they are doing."
(Kept out the riff-raff, don't you see.)