Until He Reaches The Fabled Mountain

Grateful Dead; Let It Grow...12/30/77

A seeker has heard that the wisest guru in all of India lives atop India’s highest mountain. So the seeker treks over hill and Delhi until he reaches the fabled mountain. It’s incredibly steep, and more than once he slips and falls. By the time he reaches the top, he is full of cuts and bruises, but there is the guru, sitting cross-legged in front of his cave. O, wise guru, the seeker says, I have come to you to ask what the secret of life is. Ah, yes, the secret of life, the guru says. The secret of life is a teacup. A teacup? I came all the way up here to find the meaning of life, and you tell me it’s a teacup!
The guru shrugs. So maybe it isn’t a teacup.

--Thomas Cathcart
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