Esoteric Community Noble Meditation Practice (What is the Bobness of Bob)

A new practice, the Esoteric Noble Community Practice, said to originate from Columbia, has now been been made public. The practice is a simple enough practice, involving ready to hand materials: mirror, basin, shaving equipment, and Bob Thurman. The practice originated by asking, before shaving, the following question, repeatedly, while letting the light mysteriously illuminate only parts of one's face: "What is the Bob-ness of Bob?" Advanced practioners are encouraged to add a wrinkle to Bob's practice: by shaving in front of a mirror that has a picture of Bob posted on it,


and asking: "What is the Bob-ness of Bob?" followed by: "Who am I /he anyway, and how do I tell the difference?".

Highly advanced adepts from different thought systems have suggested that this is still only for those stuck on the dichotomy of disposable versus non-disposable razors. The true adept, realizing along with CU 2.1.154a-b that verily, this slipping world is like a Gillette blade (give or take an inch), and wishing to become the man with insight, must pass beyond the reification of shaving and not shaving, adopting a practice with a beard trimmer.

Junior practioners may also prefer pasting a picture of Bob's daughter,



and convincing themselves that indeed, the world sensibilia is, to put it mildly, disconcerting in its evident dissatisfactions. Such a path, however, has been considered unfit by some. The following mantra--Om Hey Ho DerriRoriWittywittywittgensteioohmymadhyamikawhichisbangbangcittybangbangbutwhyisshesohot svaha--will allow you to control Bob's daughter at the drop of a tibetan hat and a turn of a thrice blessed wheel thing which makes fun noises and can be rented out at children's parties.

All this, of course, is subject to correction, if it turns out that these highly visible esoteric traditions were not meant to be esoteric, nor describe anything, being instead a meta-comment on French post-structuralism.