Analect 01

Being a guru, people often ask me, ‘What’s it all about, Roshi?’ and I’m nonplussed. I’m thinking, how am I supposed to know what it’s all about for them if they don’t even have a clue themselves? Am I them?‘

No,’ I answer myself, and go on about my business hoping they’ll eventually get to theirs.”

Commentary:

Everybody’s looking for answers from somebody else. This is the wrong tack. If God wanted everybody to get their answers from somebody else, God would not have needed to invent so many people. One person, like one giant media conglomerate, would have been enough. We can infer from the fact that there are so many people, that God sought to encourage diversity of thought.

Then along came the first dogmatician with his calipers and sacred book.