Make the Dummy Talk

Only the weak and childish cannot see the fact that you do not have a nose if you are never diagnosed as having one.  No man is Hubert until he stands and declares:  “I am Hubert!”
Fact: No lion is named Hubert.
Fact: No lion has ever been “asleep.”|
(Leastwise no one’s ever had the nerve to tell a lion that he is.)

To be “asleep” in the classical, mystical sense, (simply put), is to be stupid.  But believe me, it is possible for the would-be awakened, to be even stupider – you would like to figure out for yourself how?!  A father said to a son, “If you want to be solidly assured of retaining your totally lost status be sure to always look where other people point.”

There was once a ventriloquist who sought enlightenment, and concluded that his dummy’s ceaseless chatter was keeping him in place.  After finding HIMSELF unable to stop the dummy’s yammer, and devoting much consideration to the problem, he finally eureka-ed the solution:
“Make the DUMMY talk.”

There was once a man who had spent his whole life wanting to awaken, to whom I told this story, and after digesting it for a moment, commented:  “Back when I needed and could have used it, I would have given everything I had to have heard that story...of course, the way things go is that if I HAD heard it back then, I was in no position to realize what I needed.”

(That’s the great thing about the sport of awakening:
by the time it’s too late – it’s too late to do anything about it!)

J.