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WHAT IS STRAIGHT AHEAD AND WHAT IS GOING OFF TRACK?
If you look in you cannot go off track, because there are no tracks. There are not two ways even. It is the outside world where if you don't know, naturally you will have to grope around. In the inside world you don't even have hands with which to grope. The inside world is a pure seeing.
In this country we have called this seeing darshan. Darshan means just seeing. And that does everything, you don't have to do anything else.
Before you do the seeing, a little laughing. That's why you have not done it before.
Pope the Polack is visiting the optician.
"I keep seeing spots in front of my eyes," complains the Polack pope.
"Really?" replies the optician, putting a new pair of glasses on the pope's nose. "There! How's that?"
"Wow! That's great," replies Pope the Polack. "Now I can see the spots much clearer."
Luigi is sitting with his teenage son, Spagnoli.
"What-a do you want-a for your birthday, my son?" Luigi proudly asks his son.
"I wanna watch," says the son.
"Okay," shrugs Luigi. "It is-a okay with me if it is okay with-a your mother."
Get it? Otherwise in the middle of the night you will get it!
(WAVES OF INCREASING LAUGHTER ARE ROLLING THROUGH BUDDHA HALL AS MORE AND MORE DISCIPLES ARE GETTING IT.)
Do you see? Somebody got it!
One morning, Miss Goodbody, the fifth grade teacher, asks the class what the best kind of business is.
"Real estate," says little Ernie, "because everybody needs somewhere to live, and houses always increase in value."
"Oil!" exclaims little Albert, "because cars always need petrol."
"No," says little Peggy Sue, from the back of the room. "The best business in the world is prostitution."
"What!" cries Miss Goodbody, shocked. "Peggy Sue, how can you say such a thing?"
"Easy," replies Peggy Sue, "because it is the only business where you have it, you sell it, and you still have it."
Three women arrive at the Pearly Gates. Betty and Margaret are English girls, and Lolita is Italian. Saint Peter looks the women over very carefully. Then he turns
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