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found herself in her own bed, clad in her sheerest nightgown. Surprised, she went down to breakfast.
"Wang Lee," she asked her Chinese manservant, "how did I get to my room last night?"
"I put you there, Missy," he answered.
"Gee," she said, "I must have really been on my back."
"First time on back, Missy," he replied, "second time on side, third time on stairs, fourth time...."
Everybody is asleep. People are doing things to you in your sleep, you are doing things to people in their sleep. You are all interfering in each other's sleep. When you look from the vantage point of a buddha, the world simply seems to be a madhouse.
An elephant was walking through the jungle when she suddenly heard a voice behind her. She turned around and saw a little mouse sitting on the ground. The mouse asked if she could give him a ride on her back and she said, "Sure, just crawl up!"
Sometime later the elephant suddenly heard the mouse laughing. She turned her head and asked, "Hey, what's the matter? Why are you laughing?"
But the mouse replied, "Oh, never mind. Just keep on walking."
So she trotted on, but after a while the mouse started giggling again. He jumped up and down on her back, choking with laughter.
This time the elephant was really pissed off and said, "Listen, if you don't tell me why you are laughing I am gonna throw you off my back!"
So the mouse finally said, "Ha, ha, ha! I raped you two times and you didn't even notice it!"
But this is how it is with everybody. You go on doing great things in your sleep, thinking that the whole world is noticing it, that the whole universe is taking great note of it, that you will be remembered for centuries, that you will have a place in history, that your name is going to be written in golden letters. In sleep one lives in the ego. As you wake up, suddenly you find ego disappearing. Just as the sun rises and the mist of the early morning disappears, ego disappears when you wake up.
A buddha-mind is a mind which has become awakened.
IT WORKS EASILY AND FREELY, BEING NEVER DISTURBED BY OTHERS; THEREFORE, IT IS CALLED THE TRUE PATH.
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