Subject: Yes?
Object: "You'll have to observe the sign"
Subject: What do you think I've been doing?
Object: "No Sir, I'm not talking about that sign. I'm talking about this one:"
Object: "That last glass you drank was dosed with a special drug our researchers have labeled Anti-Ockham's razor. You should be feeling the effects shortly. Subjects initially report disorientation, but it goes much deeper. You life is about to become more complex in ways you can't imagine. There is no simple. Eventually, you will be one with an amorphous mosaic structure. We all are. You should be encountering the first shard right about now: "
An Author: "You receive everything you see on the inhalation of the breath. Don't pretend not to see it. In our contemporary lives we pretend a lot in order to protect ourselves. There's TV, newspapers with bad news, city noises and so many other things that seem to be assaulting us. But no matter what it is, you can take in in, and because you do receive it, on the exhalation you can let it out. This is the shikan taza breath....Our practice is to have the courage to actually feel and accept these aspects of being human." No Beginning, No End, Jakuso Kwong
Object: "The second shard is much darker in color. Subjects report fear. Sometimes overwhelming fear. Don't worry, we will reimburse your beneficiaries for any necessary medical expenses you may encounter during this procedure"
Another Author: “The vast and terrible depth."
“Of course,” he said.
“The inexhaustibility.”
“I understand.”
“The whole huge nameless thing.”
“Yes, absolutely.”
“The massive darkness.”
“Certainly, certainly.”
“The whole terrible endless hugeness.”
“I know exactly what you mean.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise
Subject: What is this tension? This fear off falling evermore into nothingness?
I have to do something. I have to move. I must get away.
Object: Relax. The third shard will reduce your anxiety:
Yet Another Author: “Before we were born we had no feeling; we were one with the universe. This is called "mind-only," or "essence of mind," or "big mind," After we are separated by birth from this oneness, as the water falling from the waterfall is separated by the wind and rocks, then we have feeling. You have difficulty because you have feeling. You attach to the feeling you have without knowing just how this kind of feeling is created. When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life.”
― Shunryu Suzuki
Subject: Easy for you to say.
Object: "It is actually. I disintegrated long ago. Under the Bodhi tree, I was tempted many times by the Demon Mara. Stay with it my friend."
Random Author: "In many ways, dear subject, you suffer from self identification. Like the world revolves around your self. Like we used to think the sun revolves around the earth. If you extrapolate this self identification to humanity writ large, it becomes nationalism, religious violence, violence against the environment, disharmony, disunity, and finally dysentery. It is the seat of much evil and even worse puns. It creates lyrics, thus and so, that reek with excessive bass when you take your offspring to concerts in St. Louis:
(*Insert lyrics from Bleachers "I want to get better" here)
Response: I would get better if you all turned down the bass.
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