'Do I still appear to be raining?' asked the owl, opening one eye querulously and glancing skywards.
'Yes, you do!' the rabbit replied, peeping out of her burrow. 'And I wish you would stop! I am hungry, and wet grass sometimes gives me a pain. Please shine, so that things may dry up.''I shine eternally,' answered the owl dryly, 'it is you who conceive these distinctions.'
'But you also get wet when you rain,' objected the rabbit.'Quite so,' agreed the owl, 'as you say.'
'How is that?' asked the rabbit, mystified.'You said "you also get wet": as "you", as "a you" if you prefer, "you" get wet - all "you"s get wet when I rain.'
'Then do all "I"s shine when you shine?''You talk nonsense, as usual,' remarked the owl; 'there is no "I" but I.'
'Then is there no "you" but you?' queried the rabbit.'There is no "you" at all,' said the owl severely; 'all "you"s are conceptual images in mind.'
'Then what are we when we address one another?''I, always I,' answered the owl, casually.
'But what is whoever we address?' queried the rabbit.'I have told you - nothing but an image in mind: there is only I - and I am not as any "thing".'
'But what about me?' objected the rabbit, flapping her long ears.'I am I,' answered the owl clacking his beak, 'and you are I - whoever says it; there is, absolutely, no "me": even you speak good enough English not to say "you are me"!'
'Gives me to think,' mused the rabbit, 'I will meditate upon it.''Do nothing of the kind!' too-whooted the owl, fixing the rabbit with a penetrating glance. 'To "meditate" means using split-mind: just look from within and see - SEE that so it IS! Stop splitting and stay WHOLE!'
