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Recieved: 2002/08/22 19:55
Subject: [K-list] The Parrot
From: david bozzi
On 2002/08/22 19:55, david bozzi posted thus to the K-list: --- In Kundalini-GatewayATnospamy..., "jlb" <jlbATnospams...> wrote:
> "We have heard that you are enlightened. Is this true?"
I am unenlightened.
> Kyogen answered.
> "Tell us," said a friend, "how do you feel?"
> "As miserable as ever," replied the enlightened Kyogen.
>
> It demonstrates
> an attachment
> to some self-indulgent image
> worth preserving...
It is why you experienced pain
when I called you a fool.
So much pain
that you asked me to stop...
(fool)
> "How are you?"
> "Perfect, thank you. I'm traveling incognito."
> "Oh? As what are you disguised?"
> "I am disguised as myself."
> "Don't be silly. That no disguise. That's what you are."
> "On the contrary, it must be a very good disguise, for I see it has
> fooled you completely." ~~Nasrudin (Sufi Tales)
I love Sufi tales.
They have much to reveal
regarding what we are not...
> but light remains... (forever)
> > ~~Remains where forever?
You are indeed
a fool
to ask me.
Ask your*Self*!
> "There is no need to struggle to be free;
> The absence of the struggle is in itself freedom"
You are no more enlightened
than a parrot.
David
(asleep & repetitious)
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