| Try that on for size! The Strongest Mind ever to | | | | after all, was what the earth was, and the shape |
| exist in the whole wide world, maybe the whole | | | | of the thing was round, like the universe, and it |
| galaxy! Able to woo any dame and trounce any | | | | seemed so appropriate. So I went into a nearby |
| bad guy, and...sounds a bit too good to be true, | | | | field and chose a well shaped but ordinary rock, |
| doesn't it? | | | | and prepared to enter Nirvana. |
| Oddly, the thing that I did worked, but not in the | | | | I sat down next to a tree, placed the rock in |
| way I thought it would. So let me tell you what I | | | | front of me, and focused on it. I tried not to |
| did, for free, and see how you do. Are you ready | | | | think, I tried to just focus on the rock, and to |
| to have the Strongest Mind in the World? | | | | ignore all those silly little surface thoughts, like |
| I once came across the concept that a man who | | | | what was for lunch and what the latest movie |
| can concentrate on one thing for three minutes | | | | was, or what I was going to do that weekend. I |
| can rule the world. The point was that to stay | | | | was, after all, going to shatter down the doors to |
| mentally concentrated on one thing, to put it | | | | heaven, so what use did I have for the following |
| simply, blows up the brain power. Having read this, | | | | weekend, right? |
| and wanting to have the most fully functional | | | | After three minutes I got to my feet, tossed the |
| brain allowed by the powers that be, I decided to | | | | rock aside, and started walking away, totally |
| do it. | | | | disgusted with how boring the whole thing was. I |
| I was doing doing Karate at the time, and | | | | mean, to think that I was going to become an |
| exploring martial forms such as Sticky Hands | | | | enlightened being just by being able to think at a |
| from Wing Chun Gung Fu, and various other | | | | rock, how stupid, how boring! Suddenly, my body |
| martial styles, and I really thought that I had the | | | | was jerked to a halt as a sudden thought |
| mental willpower to pull anything off. I did my | | | | overwhelmed me. |
| kata, I could remain calm during freestyle, and I | | | | It wasn't the stupid, little rock that was so darned |
| had the discipline. Now all I had to do was apply | | | | boring, it was me that was boring. All that |
| that discipline to pursuing Nirvana, seeking | | | | boredom was coming out of me, and I realized |
| enlightenment, or whatever you want to call it. | | | | something...I would never be bored again. And I |
| I decided to use a simple, little rock as my vehicle | | | | suddenly knew that I had achieved some form of |
| for the ultimate concentration and the resulting | | | | enlightenment, the thing had worked, but not at all |
| explosion of pure mentality which, I hoped, | | | | how I thought it would. |
| wouldn't shatter the universe too badly. A rock, | | | | |