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beautiful theories; they arrange them in beautiful patterns, but that's all they do. They know nothing -- although they deceive others and deceive themselves, too, that they know.
A man went into a restaurant to have some lunch and when the waiter came he said, "I will have a plate of kiddlies, please."
"What?" said the waiter.
"Kiddlies," said the man.
"What?" said the waiter again.
So the man picked up the menu and pointed at what he wanted. "Kiddlies," he repeated firmly.
"Ah," said the waiter. "I see. Kidneys. Why didn't you say so?"
"But," said the man, "I said kiddlies, diddle I?"
It is very difficult to pull them out. They live in their own words. They have forgotten that reality has anything else in it but words. They are utterly deaf, utterly blind. They can't see, they can't hear, they can't feel. Words are words. You can't see them, you can't feel them, but they can give you great ego.
A cannibal rushed into his village to spread the word that a hunting party had captured a Christian theologian.
"Good," said one of the cannibals enthusiastically, "I have always wanted to try a baloney sandwich."
Beware of getting lost in philosophy and religion if you really want to know what truth is. Beware of being Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan, because they are all ways of being deaf, blind, insensitive.
Three deaf British gentlemen were traveling on a train bound for London.
The first said, "Pardon me, conductor, what station is this?"
"Wembley, sir," answered the conductor.
"Good Lord!" exclaimed the second Englishman. "I am sure it is Thursday."
"So am I," agreed the third. "Let us all go into the bar car and have a drink."
That's how it goes on between professors, philosophers, theologians. They can't hear what is being said. They have their own ideas and they are so full of them, so many thick layers of words, that reality cannot reach them.
ZEN SAYS: IF YOU CAN DROP PHILOSOPHIZING, there is a hope for you. The moment you drop philosophizing you become innocent like a child. But remember: -- the Zen emphasis on not knowing does not mean
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