Parallel History:
Then there was this guy who wondered
if man's greatest fear was actually of losing something,
or maybe of gaining something for which he was ill-prepared.

At a slow bend in the road, a warrior once hesitated and thought to himself:
"Are the more conscious actually that different than everyone else...
or perhaps just more like everyone else than even they are?"
(Do you not begin to clearly realize why life is so reluctant to allow those who truly know
to publicly speak and write about it?)

Out on a great plain was once a mighty bucket,
and sometimes it seemed that bucket would be over filled,
while, at others, it appeared to be under.
The bucket knew this to be an optical illusion
(in fact even the plain did),
but not so those who observed the affair,
and who believed that the bucket was within them, and the plain without.

Soles have a dickens-of-a-time making sense of feet
as long as they're unaware of their, shall we say, close connection thereto.

A man went to a specialist in stress and said: "Doctor, I feel in terrible shape!"
And the healer responded with a pointed stare and upturned palms, in the international sign of
"So what d'you expect? -- have you looked at yourself?"

A certain man pondered:
"Is it worse never to reach the prize, or to worry about it?"
(...And 'tis good he didn't ask if it's worse to ask such a question, or be aware of it.)

Man's eyesight is constructed so that he cannot see anything too abruptly -- at best,
with the ordinary, it's: "Gradually-y-y does it."

Myth has it that there were originally two distinct schools of mystical training:
one was quiet and orderly,
the other noisy and disruptive.
It's further hinted that only one of the two was intended to survive,
but due to the demands and operations of man's ordinary thinking,
things have turned out otherwise.