Good deMello

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On the question of his own Enlightenment the Master always remained reticent, even though the disciples tried every means to get him to talk.

All the information they had on this subject was what the Master once said to his youngest son who wanted to know what his father felt when he became Enlightened. The answer was: "A fool."

When the boy asked why, the Master had replied, "Well, son, it was like going to great pains to break into a house by climbing a ladder and smashing a window -- and realizing later that the door of the house was open."

Anthony de Mello, SJ

Reminds me of the joke about the blonde who had locked her keys in her car and was struggling to unlock the door with a coat hanger. When a passerby noticed that the other door was unlocked and pointed it out to her, she said, "I know -- I've already done that one!"

By the way, I've actually enacted the deMello scenario described above. I'd forgotten my housekey after riding my bike home from work one day, and I had over two hours to wait before my wife came home. I broke the screen in the kitchen window to crawl through and let myself into the house, only to discover that the back door was unlocked when I went to go and put my bike away.

That reminds me, I have to get my spare key back to Jerry. He was a godsend, leaving it in my mailbox on my way home from Calgary last week when I realized that I'd left my housekey on the nightstand in Calgary when my wife was only coming home the following day.