The Bullshit Sutra

I discovered the lost text of the Dhamapada:

There is an old story told of a young man on a journey for "what is true" who while in a drunken state fell walking through a field. His head hit a stone upon falling and he knocked out. Unbeknownst to this man when he fell a cow came over and took a shit in his pocket. When he awoke from his stupor without knowledge of the dung in his pocket, though heavy, he carried this stink burden and wandered around following every religion possible, making millions upon millions of money earning every material or physical pleasure, power or recognition a man could want all in search of "what is true." But it did not come and he had become old, his pocket heavy his back became bent and stiff. Still displeased and depressed he felt limited with the happiness he thought he had and felt bereft of what is true and burdened by a weight he could not fathom so he left the material world behind again to find "what is true." He came upon a religion that worshipped cows. Upon coming to the temple the leader said to him "go out to that field (pointing) and ask the sacred cow for the truth!" He walked for days and nights through the fields searching for the sacred cow. On the 99^th day of his journey he found the sacred cow and asked "dear sacred cow please show me ‘what is true’ in this life?"

The sacred cow in all its great wisdom and depth said…."ahem….in your youth slept in my field while you searched for what is true and ever since it has burdened you…old man check your pocket."

Moral: you cannot search for the truth if the search is founded on or weighed down by bullshit from the start……or spending your time wrapped up in bullshit is not going to offer you what you need…yet identifying the bullshit is one step towards the truth….this is the truth. Bullshit.

Alternative: just when you think you stepped in dogshit you may later come to find it was all bullshit.