Great Thing About Awakening Is No One Can Exactly Tell You How
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02/08/1995
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Summary
#1396 – 2/08/95:
Notes by TK
Symbolic thought (ST) is the literal interpretation of once-metaphorical thought. Symbolic interpretation/translation forces participation in original thought on the part of the hearer.
The News
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As the pitch of the torture increased,
The prisoner was informed that from here on, he had a choice:
He could either: talk to his torturers,
Talk to himself,
Talk to life — or,
Go back to talking to his tormenters like everybody else! — except this time — differently.
The distinction between: “Same-as” and, “Differently.”
Is what ultimately separates the free from the not-free, and back to the free again.
If – within the reading of a single page —
You can experience both déja vu and precognition,
Then you waste your time hanging around school yards -….You should learn to waste your time some other way.
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Being made to think about things he’d never thought about before used to really piss this one guy off! And rightfully so.
Hey! I got it!
Let’s all distract the playground monitor and make a run for it!”
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….Yeah-h-h…..But still! –
When the going gets too tough, – life will have local conditions
Pat men on the back and re-assure them that it’s all right! – and that they’ll feel much better if they do bitch & whine at their own ankles, which they mistake for shackles.
Go on! — let it out, dammit!
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Today’s helpful hint for one-and-all…(and even others):
One way to protect yourself from ever becoming more conscious is to continue to let people tell you what it is.
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And now an important message from your local fire Marshall:
Some things seem to make more sense than others! And if they do, — don’t play with them!.
….(yeah, I’m with you,
It’s hard to tell if he’s Being serious or not!?!
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Some make-up and cosmetics news:
When, “in doubt,” it’s easier to put on lipstick and talk loud than it is to get un- “In doubt.”
Some charitable news, from which I trust you’ll benefit:
Man’s collective institutions only award grants when they’re sure they don’t know where they’re going.
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And look a’there! —
Yet another sign by the mystic’s on-ramp to that extraordinary highway: this time saying:
“Take certainty — give certainty,
But mainly just: be steady & sure.”
….(of course you may have noted that the ordinary have similar signs
On their roadways, but in their case they believe it all has to do with physical behavior.)
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Our understated tip for the day:
Having the mind under some control could be of some ultimate benefit.
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In thought, same as in glass blowing,
The key is in clarity and calm, deliberate action.
Upon hearing this,
One man became so overcited by incomement that he began to venter hyperlate.
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If you don’t laugh at language — language won’t laugh at you!
…And if you believe that,
You’d believe that Dante is saving up for a Lexus.
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Within a closed system —
Everything, eats its own,
Births its own,
Then – eats its own again.
Is it any wonder that
People as smart as mystics always want the hell outta here!?
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According to one legend:
Life used to snack on corn fritters…. til it learned to deep-fry man.
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Thus are we left (young munchers),
With the plain and glorious fact that:
The secret the few so seriously seek
Has got to reside either:
Outside of ordinary reality — or,
Inside of a man — somewhere past the normal reach of present awareness.
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Okay — for desert would any one care for a new description of what, “More-conscious-explanations” are? Okay, here ’tis: they’re like jokes,
The position of whose punch-lines are unpredictable.
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One day life said to a guy: “Wanna play a game?” and the guy said: “Sure,'” so life said: “Okay, think of something you’ve never thought about before.” And the guy thought for just a second, then said: “Ah-h-h, that’s not fair.” …And life just laughed and said: “Pay the cashier as you leave…
And don’t forget your hat.” And the guy whined again:
“That’s not my hat — that’s my head.”
Ah-h-h-h!
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He with the right word can write a sentence,
And he, with the right sentence can write a paragraph, and he with a right paragraph can write a book — and he who awakens to,
All he’s a’written can,
Stoke up his fire with
The verbal dead wood.
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One man’s personal precept was:
“You can — read ’em fast — or,
You can — read ’em slow,
But whatever you do — read ’em fast!”
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At a recent intergalactic medical conference
The subject came up of why you never hear of mystics throwing up (!?!)
…Could it be that they’re the only ones whose mothers always told them to: “Gulp your food!”
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The pugilistic arts got the idea for the, “Ole, one-two”
From the way in which the more-conscious think.
…(and professional wrestling came up with the idea of “Throwing matches” from the same basis.)
….By the way: if you don’t “Get this one,”
Don’t bother asking your mind to “Explain it to you.”
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In the spirit of equal-time-fairness from last show,
We present one man’s response to a particular item; (responds he): “The great thing about the past is that it is so — predictable.”
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Today’s legend:
There is a legend that says there was once a man who told others of a myth that said that life originally looks everyone dead-in-the-eye — once, only briefly, and that most immediately “Look away” and
Miss whatever opportunity it was available.
But this legend goes on to present the question of whether or not it is actually, “Everyone” who has this experience,
Or just a random few, here and there (!?!)
….(yeah, I’m with you! —
It’s this kind of legend that gives legends a “Bad name.”)
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One man adopted the motto: “Why worry!?”
And in a surprise move his brother countered with: “Why not!?”
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Each and every time he’d get married,
This one man would have the same song played as he walked down the aisle, (which went like this):
“And now, to Mr. John x. Smith, a Master’s Degree in medieval lit. “
…And, yes — as you probably guessed,
He’d also have it played every time he died.
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Collective thought is as beneficial to an individual as the Hormel brothers are to whole herds of cows.
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According to another legend,
As man began to grow,
Life began referring to the buildings
Housing his common wisdom
As “Libraries! — compendiums inclusive of,
All mental nourishments,”
Rather than by their original name of:
“Cookbooks on how to properly prepare human brains.”
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One man looked deeply into
The eyes of life,
And guess what he saw!?…
…Go on, guess…
…What!? — you don’t wanna guess!?…. Okay, we’ll go on then.
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It came to be that one man finally paused to ponder just what sort of, non-standard-justice might be afloat that made it be that
Those people usually most vocal and physically anxious to
Take up some mystical path
Are also most likely to be the least apt (?!)
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A tip if you’re going to the city:
If you squinch up your ears real-l-l good, you can hear a lot less.
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To say,
(in the way it is normally handled),
That the mind is a spontaneous, adventurous, free spirit is either a grand act of charity, or stunted perception.
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Have you come yet to note that all of collective man’s mythical heroes possess supernatural powers always of a physical nature only!? Have you come yet to ask: where are the otherwise!?
And to answer: they are within you.
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The simple remain disposed to fear and worship death through legendary figures who’ve physically overcome it,
While the more-alert, in their private lives,
Have replaced the concept of death with – stagnant consciousness.
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One day the royal carpet cleaner approached the king with this message: “The greatest allegory ever known to man is – the weather.”
Which was not that distant from what His Grace had been recently thinking
Regarding his own hormonal balance.
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Upon hearing the axiom: “It’s better to – wear out, than to – waste away”, one man’s mind made him immediately:
Reach for a beer and,
The remote control.
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Sipping on his coffee, while periodically glancing about, one climbing instructor noted to a friend:
“You know, the simple, simply scrambling about,
Can seem kind of ‘cute’ – in a way.”
And (allowing for a momentary pause), his pal responded: “Well…If you make that read, ‘pathetically cute’, maybe,” which said, (and them both understanding clearly what was privately intended between them),
They fell silent for a bit as they again reflected on how often aspects of “Out-in-the-open-reality”
Have no attendant, appropriate descriptions,
Even though it would seem that things most plain and obvious would be the first named.
Mystical surveying is not linear — but routine blueprints are, thus any reading from same makes the former seem so.
When anxious for egress from an uncomfortable cave, or unfamiliar ledge, the simple will often began to proclaim passing eagles to be no more than carping ravens.
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Those-who-know,
Criticize none but themself,
…And only then,
When they’re – “Not home” and – deserve it!
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As his, “Semi-guiding-light,” one man assumed the slogan: “When uncertain — don’t be.”
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Play-time mystics like to hear about forms of their intrigue that are: dead-and-gone,
Of exotic background,
With something resembling a structured discipline,
And with just a hint of exclusivity.
This of course – (ha, ha!) –
Leaves those seriously interested in enlightenment with nowhere to go.
Ha, ha! — is that a righteous riot or what, Scott!?
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One certain tabby had his own approach: when left outside,
in the cold and the snow, on caddies, he’d perch — never on porches.
One reason the awakened are so hard to find is that they so seldom go very far from home.
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It is a sagacious sailor who lends not his boat,
And the more-alert who do not let the collective borrow their mind.
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How to identify people who do not know what they are talking about:
–They will, with urgency, assure you that it is most important for you to- know what they are talking about.
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Literal thinking is to metaphorical thought as two dimensions are to three,
And metaphorical thinking is to symbolic as three dimensions are to four, and beyond all of that,
Is a form of awareness,
About which there’s little to think.
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The question: why do men most prefer to talk about the past? The answer: because they don’t like surprises!
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Next level:
The question–just what is: the awakening”? Answer: the world’s biggest surprise.
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And now a wrap of one particular transcendental rap:
Reality itself is not linear,
And since speech is,
Anything said about reality is at least partially misleading.
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One man, as he had increasing doubts about the value of everyday chatter, and small talk, began, in public to often act dumb.
You mean he’d pretend he couldn’t speak?
Yeah, that too.
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The future: the one thing that doesn’t have to be advertised, or promoted.
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A man who’d been interested in deep sea diving
Wondered why there were no stories about his activities (!?!) -since they are in fact, the same as mountain climbing, except of course, to linearly-limited, spatially driven minds.
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Query: since it seems like the intellect is the proper path to any potential increase in consciousness,
Why not give it some–special attention !?!
….(you don’t have to answer right this second.)
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Reports from certain battlefronts & other places:
“How did it begin?” he asked his friend,
“That so many believe concern for the body Is the way to mental enlightenment!?”
And his friend,
(being one to the end), replied:
“A simple man – when troubled —
Will always focus on that which is closest at hand.”
And yet the man still was perplexed,
Since the mind is as near man as any of his other parts,
But that remains the operational distinction between those: to-the-unprofitably, “Simple born,”
And the few whose genetic wiring is such that things initially – plain-&-simple, soon reveal themselves as being much more complex and significant.
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One warrior survived many a spear and arrow only to be cut down by excessive modifiers, stipulations,
Uncertainties, and
Apparent, local exceptions,
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A certain correspondent, (covering the wars), one day stopped & wondered: “Why does man have the word, ‘man-handled,’
But no other creature has a similar term relating to
Such behavior peculiar to itself!?”
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The only note,
From that rare recruit,
Back home to consciousness says: “If I’m alive–I’ll be there.”
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And slap-in-the-midst of all this –one guy up-and-mused: “The really great thing about awakening is that
No one can tell you just how to do it!
Another blow struck for — originality!”
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A story within a story,
A life within life,
What is its name — other than, man,