Listics

Thanks to Whiskey River for the following:

“Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure … except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap … the desire to know it all and still be you, the knower. This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can’t know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a knower and known you are in dualism.”
- Baba Ram Dass

Be Here Now

Fourteen years ago and more, when we were packing up to leave Berkeley. I ran across the old 1971 vintage copy of Be Here Now. The pulp it was printed on and the cheap purple ink had fused to a uniformity of brown pages that were perfectly illegible. I was glad I had read it then, because it certainly wouldn’t have been here now.