Trapped in the Middle of Life’s Life
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01/09/1994
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#1385 – 1/09/95:
Notes by TK
For the mind, criminal thought = potentially destructive of the midstream. Insane thinking belies or defies present state of reality (i.e., it’s irrelevant to the midstream). People feel trapped between the two; feel a stricture to conform to the civilized middle.
The News
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Ignorance is a difficult burden to bear….Except, of course, for the stupid.
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Up until the twentieth century epigrams were birds -now they are motorized.
…(and four inane maxim merchants said: “We knew that”.)
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Just inside the monk’s private entrance into the mystical monastery was a sign that stated:
“The master is not permitted to ever offer any encouragement.
P.S.: should he ever do so — run for your life. For a form of self-destruct is about to take place.
P.P.S.: if, by some chance, you feel you can survive this, do stick around, for you’re just the kinda dude we’ve been looking for.”
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One man would never allow photographs to be made of him smiling …Unless, at the time, he was frowning.
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And now: today’s soy bean prices & how unusually straightforward, yet normally unrecognized, can be aspects of mortal existence:
Those seeking fame doubt their own talent.
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To be totally fair to all concerned
It should be herein noted that
The highest to which a cow can aspire is simply his acceptance by the herd,
Kin: the arrangement whereby ass-kissing is socially acceptable,
Coronary: true originality is never recognized because it can’t be recognized.
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It’s hard enough to ever get to Istanbul —
But to go on past it? Well…
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Offendum: an ending by an ellipsis is as good as a conclusion by a mile.
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The world’s worst financial approach: believing that you already have so much invested in your thinking
That you can’t change now.
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So reflected one man:
“Spring follows winter, and humus nourishes new plant life, but what has that to do with me!? —
Hell! I ain’t got that much longer to live!”
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Considering another description of one more-conscious, from an aurally symbolic position,
We might say: a man without modifiers.
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All ideas have at least two — no, make that three — definitions:
They have two definitions, and then the possibility that the idea doesn’t actually exist.
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Another: “Wise up, chumps!’ special notice:
Man’s everyday verbal life is the biggest conspiracy imaginable! — and one intended, (evidently), at keeping him d-u-m-b, and, d-i-s-t-r-a-c-t-e-d.
Say, boys & girls, can you spell, “Spell”?
If not, perhaps the conspirators are helping you with your studies.
And life muttered under its semi-breath
That if it’d a’wanted you to be able to “Think good,” it’d made you that way to start with.
Extracurricular theorem: a “Finished product” is not truly finished,
Til you let the local wholesaler convince you that you – I mean, it is.
Okay, look at it this way: life does want what’s best for itself — and man, it just doesn’t have time to see about people individually — that’s your job.
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How the more alert manage to hold onto the farm
By remembering that
Anyone who shows up at your door
On a mission to assist you — will:
Sleep with your pigs – and make sausage out of your daughter.
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The awakened never offer to share their awakening with you -nothing can’t be divided up —
,,,,and even if it could:
Slides of Istanbul aren’t the same as being there, and in fact once you’re there — being there is no longer the same.
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Anyone who believes that the sport & pursuit of expanded consciousness will ever be commonly popular
Simply reveal the extent to which their bucolic viewpoint has lounged in the arms of the local loco weed.
Only those destined for enlightenment are truly on a mission, and since no one is — no one is.
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More definitions from the big city operational library:
Progress: the discovery of the obvious, religion: being pissed about it.
Politics: still debating it.
Psychology: making a living from it.
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During the monk’s annual, verbal grab-ass & lateral I.Q. Bowl,
The challenge was presented as to who could describe the awakening in the best, and fewest possible words, and the first to step forward said: “The highest human achievement,” only to be followed by another who uttered: “Full mental realization,” and then a third, (whose offering stopped the show): “The future — always the future.”
…(if you’re interested, [by the way],
They videotaped the affair,
To be re-played later, but later never came.)
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How life actually works on grander metaphysical & lymphatic levels:
If, through his patrol car P.A. System, the cop behind you “Requests” that you pull over and stop at the first safe spot on the road —
— you don’t have to!
Such is another example of how life actually works, and yet how hardly anyone with their health realizes it.
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As they lay in each other’s arms by the gently running stream, life began softly singing in the mortal’s ear:
“Don’t go to strangers — come to me.”
And to himself the man mused: “They don’t come any stranger than you,”
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One characteristic of a real mystic is that he will use whatever tool may seem immediately promising no matter how short lived may be its usefulness.
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A man said: “My behavior is like a fine-tuned, decorous machine,” and was asked: “How about your understanding?”
And he replied: “My behavior is like a fine-tuned, decorous machine.”
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Shortly after life made man, it told him he should always “Take his best shot” -,,,since that’s what ‘it’d be doin’ to him.
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A man who won’t learn from life just won’t learn,
A man who won’t learn from life can’t learn.
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In Istanbul, yes, they do sell books — for kindling,
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One man told the conductor: “I left my ticket at home.”, and the conductor thought: “My kinda guy.”
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Forget,
(all you would-be mystics),
What you’ve heard,
The greatest vanity, (if not waste of time), possible is the mental reviewing of one’s day to day life.
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A man said:
“I’m afraid that if I ever quit talking about it, I might actually have to do it! He then said: “No wait — let me revise that:
I’m afraid that if you ever quit talking about it, I might actually have to do it.
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In “Real” intelligence, experience counts for nothing — that’s what the ordinary have knowledge for.
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A man wrote Buddha: “Dear sir: I certainly do enjoy your magazine -even though I no longer receive it.”
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One day a man passionately cried: “’tis hell to be ugly!”
And a mirror replied: “You do not recognize even the half of it, not its source, nor its power of distortion—–not from your present mental position.”
And from this observation — the man was suddenly taken away to that beautiful area near the Bosporus.
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And in conclusion:
The truth,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Is not stranger than fiction, the truth is fiction.