"We were talking with the master regarding the nature of conceptual reality. Psychologically speaking, the human mind, or brain, or whatever, is almost incapable of distinguishing between the real and the vividly imagined experience. Sound and film, music and radio, even these manipulated experiences are received more or less directly and uninterpreted by the mind. They are catalogued and recorded and either acted upon directly or stored in the memory. This process, unless we pay it tremendous attention, begins to separate us from the reality of the now. Am I being clear?

"For we must allow the reality of the now to just happen as it happens. Observe, and act with clarity, for where there is clarity, there is no choice, and where there is choice, there is misery.

"But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?"