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The Teaching
Long before it had a public face, and had contracted religious and metaphysical connotations, the activity that existed was: Zoroastrianism, Yoga, Taoism, The Mysteries, Buddhism, Zen, Cabalism, Sufism, (and their many offshoots). These were known to the few actual practitioners … Continue reading
To Do The Deal
To do-the-deal you gotta get-in-on-the-ground-floor. The deal’s drawn up – upstairs, but brought to a boil down in the oven. Nothing makes you feel good as doin’ THE DEAL. Everybody’s aware of the deal, but no one knows what to call it. Listen for whom the … Continue reading
The Home Team
Life makes your brain have thoughts. Your thoughts make you think what you do about life – don’t you get it?! Life makes your brain have thoughts.Your thoughts tell you who are – don’t you get it?! You play for life … Continue reading
There are Two Ways of Looking at This
One guy became so taken with the concept of “being civil” that he would go out of town whenever he had to spit. There’re two ways of looking at this. Every time this one guy with ears would hear the … Continue reading
Where Such as This Cannot Be Said
If the active pursuit of a mystical system does not lead to its explosion,then the system leads nowhere. In one legend, the greatest knight of them all was Sir Forgot-A-Lot,while in most, of course, it was good King Always-Remembering.* *(You … Continue reading
Thinking on the Cutting Edge
The reason that the ordinary are forced to think about all the meaningless things they dois so that the future will have a chance. During the process of checking out several mystical schools, to see which one he might like … Continue reading
Smelling Too Much Like Yourself
One of the more salient chapters in the invisible history of mysticism concerns the number of men who undertook the quest, only to eventually “give up,” only to then become “teachers of the mystical.” Just like any good marketplace, a … Continue reading
Avoiding a “Mental Yeast Infection”
A man and a crow were sitting on a log, and the man said to the bird,”What d’ya figure’s the advantage to being in a fable, as opposed to real life?”And as the crow was suddenly and miraculously able to … Continue reading
All Measurements Eventually Mislead the Mind.
No measurement the mind can ever make is large enough to encompass man’s full nature. Although you can physically take an inactive posture, The Great Stillness is still an internal matter. Compared to the demands of instinct,everything the mind does … Continue reading
“What is the Profit in Setting Free a Wild Horse?”
One man has presently come to this point:“If I am to get anywhere new with my thinking,I must take it outside the confines of my head.” The body is indeed a busy place — but not the busiest in town. … Continue reading