Jan Cox Talk 1489

The Ordinary Mind Needs a Model

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Summary

#1489 – 09/18/1995
Notes by TK

The ordinary mind cannot function without a model and as part of a model. Speech is the mental equivalent of apes grooming each other—a social bonding.


The News

95089-1
IN A LAND OF LIONS
GETTING THE CATS TO SEE THAT ALL IS LEONINE
IS NOT AS MUCH THE CHALLENGE AS IS IN THEN
MAKING THEM REALIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THEIR OBSERVATION.
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IN A WORLD OF BINOCULARITY, TO WHOM IS A THREE-EYED MAN TO SPEAK!?
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95099-2
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FEW AND THE ORDINARY IS THAT THE LATTER ARE ALWAYS OFFENDED BY A BLUNT RECOUNTING OF PLAIN ACTUALITY.
EVEN AND CONDITIONAL NUMBERS TAKE ISSUE WITH ANY BEYOND THEIR PALE.
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95089-3
In knowing hands, fables, parables, and allegories can serve one of two Possible purposes: To make the obscure visible,
Or to keep the obvious from blinding you.
95089-4
PART OF THE MIND’S ETERNAL DISQUIETUDE IS DUE TO ITS SUBORDINATE POSITION TO INSTINCT.
L.
95089-5
WORRY OVER SOFTWARE WHEN IT SHOULD BE OVER HARDWARE
THE ORDINARY STAY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THEY THINK;
WHILE THE MORE ALERT BECOME ENGROSSED OVER THE FACT THAT THEY DO THINK.
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95089-6
ONE MAN WHO UNDERTOOK TO STOP A HABIT TOWHICH HE OBJECTED WAS ABLE TO DO SO — ,…BUT ONLY WHEN HE REMEMBER TO DO IT,
SUCH NON-STANDARD NOTES OF NOTORIOUS VERACITY ARE WELCOMED INDEED/ BY BUT FEW.
95089-7
AND NOW A RETURN, EXPANDED VISIT WITH THE MAN WHO SAID,
As THE HANDS OF TIME MADE THEIR PASSAGE: “No – I SHALL NOT CLAM DOWN!

IT’S BETTER TO BE WIRED, THAN RETIRED!”,
WHICH IS TRUE ENOUGH,,IF YOU USED AN ENLIGHTENED ELECTRICIAN.
95089-8
IN A KINGDOM PERCEIVED TO BE NONE BUT CROWS
WHO IS TO TELL THE BIRDS THAT THEY ARE NOT THE ONES DIRECTING THEIR DESTINY!?
ANOTHER STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, BY ITS VERY NAME, STANDS OUTSIDE ITS NATIVE HOMELAND,
AND SEES IN WAYS NOT BOUND BY INSTINCTIVE SIGHT.
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95089-9
As HE LAY STARVING, A MAN THOUGHT:
“AT LEAST – THANK GOD FOR THE EXISTENCE OF FOOD,” BUT
WHAT SIMILAR SCENE IS ROUTINELY PLAYED OUT
REGARDING A MAN’S ATTITUDE TOWARD MENTAL NOURISHMENT!?
95089-10
ONE MAN USED AS HIS EXPLANATION FOR NOT BEING MORE CONSCIOUS MORE OFTEN THE ROMANTIC TAKE THAT:
“IT’S BETTER. TO BE AWAY AND MISS SOMEONE THAN IT IS TO BE THERE & SICK OF THEM,” ,,,WHICH, SAD TO NOTE, DAMN NEAR WORKS,
95089-11
ANOTHER DISTINCTION IS THAT ORDINARY MINDS LIVE IN A STATE OF DEBATE WHILE THE FEW ARE TOURISTS THROUGH THE LAND OF CLARITY.
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THE WITLESS WILL WRANGLE ‘TIL THE COWS COME HOME, SUSPECTING ARIGHT, THAT THEY NEVER:WILL.
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95089-12
COMMON ENTERTAINMENTS ARE PRIMARILY FOR THE PURPOSE OF NUMBING MAN’S MENTAL AGITATION.
95089-13
A MAN WHO ALLOWS HIMSELF TO TALK TO HIMSELF WILL EVENTUALLY ARGUE WITH HIMSELF
DISAGREE WITH HIMSELF -THEN AGREE WITH HIMSELF -THEN ARGUE SOME MORE,
AND TO IT, THERE IS NO END.
95089-14
THE SPEED OF A HAWK SWOOPING AT NEAR GROUND LEVEL CAN STAGGER A GOPHER WITH DISBELIEF.
PRESCRIPTION: UPON ARISING EACH MORN,
APPLY THIS TO THE DAY’S NORMAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE HARDWARE OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SOFT OF THINKING.
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THE SOUND OF THE TRAIN ANNOYS SOME — THE TRAIN ITSELF, OTHERS.
95089-16
WHICH IS WORSE?!?
As HE TOOK HIS FINAL DRINK, A MAN THOUGHT:
“I AM GIVING UP ONE BAD HABIT ONLY TO NOW THINK ABOUT IT!?!”
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95089-17
A FEW’S MAIN OBJECTION TO NIGHT TIME SLEEP IS THAT IT IS AN EXAGGERATION OF THEIR DAY TIME CONDITION.
MAN HAS FOREVER CONSIDERED HIMSELF FLAWED FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT THE MIND CANNOT NORMALLY COMPREHEND ITSELF,
95089-18(B)
There is a continuing lag time between
what men can mentally accept & what they pragmatically practice.

95089-
JOGGING — TRANSCENDENTALLY
THERE IS NO PROPER “THINKING EXERCISE” — ONLY THE.CRIPPLING OF IT.
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THE SOUND OF ENLIGHTENMENT IS SILENCE.