Speak In Silence

Student: "If silence is golden, why then do you talk so much?"
Master: "Well, have you tried not to?"



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Student: "If talking is such a waste of time, why do you spend so much time talking?"
Master: "Because I want to."
Student: "But is it not bad wanting to waste time?"
Master: "Oh I don't want to waste time, I simply do it."
Student: "That aside, is wasting time not a bad thing?"
Master: "Sure, but is that such a bad thing?"

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Student: "If bad things come out of talking, why do you do it?"
Master: "Because I want to."
Student: "But isn't that bad?"
Master: "Well I don't always want to be good!"

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Student: "If talking doesn't lead anywhere, why do you speak?"
Master: "I don't always want to go somewhere."

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Student: "If talk is empty, why do you speak?"
Master: "You're the one who keeps asking me questions!"

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Student: "If silence is golden, why then do you talk so much?"
*smack*
Student: "Ouch! What was that?!"
Master: "Pure comedic gold."

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Student: "If rationality and symbolic processess divide man, why do you utilize its instrument, language?!"
Master: "In dividing, there is the undivided."

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Student: "If words lead astray, why continue using them?!"
Master: "If I do not speak, my being will speak for me."
Student: "Isn't being where emptiness and tranquility comes from?"
Master: "Sometimes."
Student: "Well how will I know when it's this way or that way?!"
Master: "I'll tell you."

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Student: "Why do you speak at all if meditation is the superior path to enlightenment?"
Master: "Not doing so would destroy my ego."
Student: "But isn't the destruction of the ego what we're trying to accomplish?!"
Master: "Eh, that's just (the ego) talk."

I Am The Way

"Not this, not this", I am not this
And yet, all I perceive I co-create
This, this - I am all this


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The way up is the way down
one descends downward, one stretches upward
both reach the Crown and Kingdom

(the know-it-all asks "but what about the road itself, is that not a jewel on the crown or part of the kingdom which you make out to be all that important?!")
(the know-it-all-not answers "the snake cannot both reach somewhere and bite itself in the tail")
(the know-it-all asks "but is the tail not precisely 'somewhere'"?!)
(the know-it-all-not answers "if it does not also bite itself")
(the know-it-all says "aha! I caught you, what about 'both ways reaching the Crown and Kingdom?!'")
(the know-it-all-not answers "they do")
(the know-it-all concludes "it is you then who is the snake, and just as you teach others the importance of silence, so you should realize that those with forked tongues do best to bite them!")
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(the know-it-all-not answers "you have found the void at the center of the snake biting its tail, and in doing so it would seem that you have caught yourself by biting more than you can chew, thus leaving a wound with unending trail. But that's ok - that trail too reaches the Kingdom!")


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One might speak of returning
from the journey
but also about returning
to the journey

Revamp?

Let's revisit this fantastic blog! And let's do it with one sentence (or two, if you must): X is an operating system for Y - it doesn't tell you Å, but it Ä so you can Ö.