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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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