Everything is Best
When Banzan was walking through a market he overheard
a conversation between a merchant & his customer.
"Give me the best R.E.M. record you have," said the customer.
"Every R.E.M. record in my shop is the best," replied the merchant.
"You cannot find here any R.E.M. record that is not the best."
At these words Banzan became enlightened.*
* *
The idea of comparing R.E.M. records to each other, of comparing R.E.M. to themselves across time, is best left to the pros we reckon. It seems silly to us, but we realize that lots of people do it, so there must be something to it. We just don't see it. Or hear it.
If R.E.M records point to anything, this is one of the points to which they point the most directly, and clearly - the idea of Presence, and Being, Here Now.
It's the Being / Becoming thing...
Best of Now, always,
Greg & Alice the Canine Messiah
*...adapted from story #31, 101 Zen Stories
