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my mouth, what about you? And I will never taste pizza I can promise you, because I love to keep a few things mysterious!
You are saying, Paro, "I leave discourse with unsteady knees ..." I also leave in the same way. I somehow manage to reach my room. You are saying, " ... as if I had done twenty-four hours' hard work." The reason for unsteady legs is that you are drunk with something that is not chemical drugs or alcohol, but something of consciousness, something of truth, something of bliss, which can make you as drunk or even much more drunk than any alcoholic beverage.
And now you are asking me, "But what happened?" Don't ask such questions! Something really happened. If you ask questions there is a danger that it may stop happening; it is a very shy phenomenon. Allow it to happen, enjoy as much as you can, and don't be worried about unsteady knees. The more you stop asking questions or figuring out what is happening, the less you will feel that you have worked hard for twenty-four hours.
To ask about the unanswerable creates great tension. It really creates the feeling of hard work and failure, because you can never succeed! Even if you work your whole life you cannot succeed.
"Is it a matter of my undeveloped awareness that I don't grasp what is happening ...?" No! With developed awareness you will be finding your knees even more unsteady. It is simply what you recognize yourself: "Does my mind want an answer where there is no answer?"
Yes, stop doing that!
Dolores marries old Mr. Pincus because she figures she will get his money without having to put out much. On their wedding night she giggles when he takes out a condom and lays it on the night table.
"Darling," she murmurs, "don't you think you are being a little cautious? After all, you are eighty-eight."
But Mr. Pincus only snickers and moments later takes cotton wool from the drawer and stuffs it up his nostrils. He then takes out a pair of earplugs.
"Darling," she says, "I understand the condom, but what are you doing now?"
"Honey," he replies, putting in his ear plugs, "you might as well know now that there are two things I can't
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