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BETWEEN MAKING CHOICES, JUDGING AND DISCRIMINATING?"
In ordinary life everything that you are doing is alright, but if you want to know the extraordinary livingness of your innermost core, then you will have to drop judgment, choice, discrimination. There is no need. In the inner world there is no marketplace, no shopping mall! In the inner world even you are not! Who is going to judge and what is going to be judged?
Again remember Bodhidharma:
Emptiness, nothing holy, no knowing.
I am not speaking on Bodhidharma, I am speaking of my own vision, which coincides with that of Bodhidharma.
It has been a serious evening with Joshu... You have enjoyed the silence. Now I would like to disturb your silence a little as a preparation for a greater silence.
Pope the Polack is wandering through the Vatican gardens one day, when he nearly steps on a toad.
"Hey!" shouts the toad. "Don't pass me by!"
"What?" cries the startled pope.
"I am a human being," replies the toad, "who has been bewitched to look like a toad. Whoever saves me will have anything he wants."
"Well," replies Pope the Polack, "I always wanted to be the most famous pope of all time!"
"Simple!" says the toad. "You take me to your bed, let me sleep on your pillow, and in the morning you will have a wonderful surprise!"
So Pope the Polack puts the toad under his huge pointed hat and smuggles it into his bed.
Just as the cardinal brings in the pope's early morning tea, the toad changes into a beautiful princess... At least, this is the story the pope is giving to the newspapers.
The express train is crowded with businessmen on their way to the city.
In a first-class carriage, Mr. Wong is sitting reading the BEIJING TIMES, when a white-coated waiter comes along the passage with the breakfast trolley.
He stops by Mr. Wong, and says, "You for coffee?"
"No," snaps Wong, "I got first-class ticket. You fuck offee!"
Miss Goodbody's class goes for a picnic in the woods.
After all the kids have drunk lots of lemonade, several of the girls retire to the bushes to pee and there is trouble with
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