As the Owl said to the Rabbit

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Delightful!

 

love,

andrew

 

 

 

 

WHO DUNNIT?

 

 

'You are forgetting who-you-are, and remembering what-you-are-not!' said

the

squirrel.

'Instead of...?' murmured the rabbit scratching one ear hesitantly with her

right

paw.

 

'Instead of forgetting what-you-are-not, and remembering who-you-are.'

'A bit confusing,' replied the rabbit, scratching the other ear with her

left

paw.

 

'Becomes automatic,' stated the squirrel, 'but excuse me, here comes that

owl,

and he gives me

the shivers; I must be off.'

 

'Morning!' said the owl, as he settled on his bough.

'Evening!' replied the rabbit, 'it is the moon you are looking at, not the

sun.'

 

'Quite so,' replied the owl, 'morning to me. Interdependent counterparts

are

personal in

relativity.'

'Yes, yes, of course!' agreed the rabbit apologetically.

 

'What are you up to?' asked the owl, after a pause.

'Nothing!' replied the rabbit innocently.

 

'Oh yes you are!' scolded the owl, 'you're thinking! I've told you not to

do

that! What

nonsense have you thought up?'

'I was only forgetting what-I-am-not, and remembering who-I-am,' replied

the

rabbit,

flourishing a dandelion with assumed nonchalance.

 

'Less idiotic the other way round,' the owl commented, 'but neither is

true. Both

positive, and

both nonsense.'

'Why is that?' asked the rabbit, disappointed.

 

'Everything positive is necessarily nonsense.'

'But why?'

 

'Who is doing either?' the owl demanded.

'Well, I am!' the rabbit replied.

 

'If you know you are doing it, you are only trying to fool yourself!' the

owl

hooted. 'What sort

of an ass put that nonsense into your head?'

'Not a donkey, just that young squirrel who fancies himself

metaphysically.'

 

'He's nuts,' said the owl, 'comes from eating things like that.'

'But it sounds sensible to me,' objected the rabbit.

 

'Of course it sounds sensible,' replied the owl, 'that is why it is not.'

'How do you mean?' asked the rabbit.

 

'What sounds "sensible" is necessarily relative, and whatever is relative

is

necessarily untrue,'

the owl explained.

'But if I forget what-I-am-not and remember who-I-am, is that not what I

should

do?'

 

'There is nothing you should do,' hooted the owl, with lightning in his

great

eyes; 'who are

"you" to do anything?' Anything you "do" is done by "a you" -

even if I am

the

doing of it.

Relatively there is nothing any "you" can do!'

'So what?' asked the rabbit crestfallen.

 

'Don't try to do anything. Anything you "do" must inevitably be wrong,'

insisted

the owl, 'since

"a you" does it!'

'Then what must I not do?' asked the rabbit bemused.

 

'Don't try to do or not-to-do anything. Rest content just to BE - then that

is

what you ARE!'

said the owl sternly.

'How do you know that? Are you God?' asked the squirrel, peeping from

behind a

tree.

'Certainly I am God,' replied the owl; 'why do you ask?'

 

'Because only God could know things like that!' replied the squirrel,

ironically.

'Only God!' snorted the owl, raising his great wings in indignation. 'I am

not

only God! Being

God is just one of my functions, like being the Devil, and a boring one at

that!

Quite relative.'

 

'Then what are you when you are not "relative"?' the squirrel inquired,

cracking

a nut with

calculated nonchalance.

'I am absolutely,' the owl replied, severely; 'it is as God that I answer

petitions, or ignore them,

and fulfil suchlike relative offices. Absolutely - I just AM.'