Based on the sundry sounding barks, everyone seems to have many dogs in their yard – yet when they look out the window, they never see but one.
The body or mind either can entertain,
but muscles do stuff while mind can only talk.
Trying to achieve enlightenment is trying to, get-away-from-thoughts. However, there is this: it is thoughts wanting to achieve enlightenment. “Hummmmmmmmmmm, wouldn’t you say?!”
Striving for peace produces turmoil.
Struggling for clarity brings confusion.
And straining to change what you are, simply strengthens it.
One guy notes: “That which steals my mind, takes nothing. Yet I am much annoyed when I realize it has been gone; not when it IS gone but later, when I realize that it has been gone. Not so neat, huh, or maybe it is…how would I ever know for sure?”
Man’s original game was and still is: The search for origins.
J.