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Meditation,_ said his teacher, __asn__ got a damn thing to do with anything, __ause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn__ develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? Forget it, baby. It erases the self. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. What good is it? Good for nothing. Excellent for nothing. Yes, Lord, but when you get down to nothing, you get down to ultimate reality. It__ then and exactly then that you__e sensing the true nature of the universe, you__e linked up with the absolute Absolute, son, and unless you__e content with blowing smoke up your butt all your life, that there__ the only place to be.
Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
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Meditation,_ said his teacher, __asn__ got a damn thing to do with anything, __ause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn__ develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? Forget it, baby. It erases the self. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. What good is it? Good for nothing. Excellent for nothing. Yes, Lord, but when you get down to nothing, you get down to ultimate reality. It__ then and exactly then that you__e sensing the true nature of the universe, you__e linked up with the absolute Absolute, son, and unless you__e content with blowing smoke up your butt all your life, that there__ the only place to be.
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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

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