How It Came To Men Preaching To One Another:
A man whose dog is out of control
will complain about his neighbor's cat.

How It Came To Some Insisting That They Must "Enlighten" Others:
A man in the dark who knows where the light switch is but doesn't use it
has got to take it out on somebody!

A man once asked a mystic:
"Is there some reason, other than their ignorance,
why the ignorant can't help the ignorant?"
And the mystic replied, "Red hots, get your red hots right here!"

A man once asked a mystic:
"Is there some reason, other than their attempt,
why those, who attempt to help others, fail?"
And the mysterious one replied, "Red hots, get your red hots -- with catsup -- right here!"

Though now forgotten by history,
there was once a university that attracted men from all over the planet,
and whose popularity was unrivaled;
all of the subjects in its curriculum it made up,
and the correct answers to all of its tests were whatever the student put down.
The reason you now never hear of this institution is because it became so
popular that in the minds of men it simply became "life."

The minds of the ordinary are as children,
lost in a woods,
who attempt to extricate themselves by following a trail of bread crumbs
that they, in part, daily lay.

And a boy asked his father, "Do I understand aright what you have mentioned over the years, that the more conscious have no heroes, nor history on which to rely because within a sequential reality there is never information pertinent to escape there from."
...Enlightenment could viewed as "Knowledge that left its place in line."

When he'd awaken each morning one man would say to his mind, "Well, what d'ya wanna think about today?" And it'd always say, "Hey man, don't bug me! I've already been at it while you were sleepin'!"
(And the man [being the pea brain that he was] would think: "How cute.")

 

 

*image by Ben Harubin