[Skit]

Fasting

Doing all sorts of exercises, lying on beds of nails, sleeping on broken rocks

Any kind of thing to break down egocentricity

To become unselfish, to become detached, to exterminate desire for life

But Buddha found that all that was futile, that was not the way

And one day, he broke his aesthetic discipline and accepted a bowl of some kind of milk-soup from a girl [?] cattle

And suddenly, in this tremendous relaxation, he went and sat down under a tree

And the burden lifted

He saw completely that what he had been doing was on the wrong track

You can't make a silk purse out of a [?]'s ear

And no amount of effort will make a person who believes themself to be an ego, to be really unselfish

So long as you think and feel that you are a somewhat, contained in your bag of skin

And that's all

There is no way whatsoever of your behaving unselfishness

Oh yes, you can imitate unselfishness

You can go through all sorts of highly refined, uh, forms of selfishness

But you're still tied to the wheel of becoming by the golden chains

Of [?]

As the obviously bad people are tied to the, the iron chains of [?]

'Cause you know how people are when they get spiritually proud

They belong to some kind of a church group or an occult group

And say, "We are the one's who have, of course, the right teaching."