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Hmm...Water makes up around 60 to 70 percent of our body weight...So...

So the next time somebody calls you a drip...take it as a compliment 😎

I am barely human (wer-lobster). We are all unread books? I knew it!
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Thanks @Shoshin1

I was just remembering the end of Papaji’s interview with David Godman, and one of the things Papaji says is that his highest transmission of teaching is something he has never given to anyone. When asked why not, he says it is because nearly all the people he encounters are still at heart egotistical and selfish. That their spiritual search is actually self-serving.

He also says that this higher transmission is something of the heart, and that if you are at your core not worthy of it then all you will hear is speech to the mind, and a mind understanding of it. That this mind understanding is something that the western mind could appreciate, but that it is not the purpose of the teaching.

It seems to me this might be the case with some Buddhist teachings as well. That one should look really carefully at whether the spiritual search is to serve yourself, so that YOU can evolve or know the truth, or whether you really feel as if you could serve the world with your enlightenment. Whether you really have abandoned serving the self.

It's a very valid question, when you think your search is for freedom or for truth, to question whose freedom, whose truth? These things are still self-serving at heart. It gave me quite a shock to realise that.

Ramana Maharshi once said, the greatest gift you can give to the world is your own enlightenment. That led me to think, work on your enlightenment and you will do fine with serving the world. And if you look at the life of Ramana or Papaji, there were no great periods of service to the people there.

Instead they spent time doing their own thing, coming to their own inner expression, their enlightenment.

A wiser man once said, "-- --- - - ---"
A not so wise man took 12 days to say nearly the same thing and mean less.
A politician took 30 years to say less and mean none of it.