In Affairs of Man, Life Shouts Out What It Is All About
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There was once a garden that was silent,
but, in so being, it was no garden.
Then the garden became noisy, and thus became a real, living garden.
Now it wants to become silent again and become “god-knows-what.”
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There was once a ruler who had many enemies,
until he studied and struggled with them for many years
and discovered they were but one.
…(And later still came to see the one as something less than an
adversary.)
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A businessman asked:
“Why can’t The Secret be sold?
Why can’t Enlightenment be marketed?
Why can’t Awakening be franchised?
And why do I see a price tag on everything? —
Because I am man, that’s why.”
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For the few: the value of that which they cherish
forever remains undeclared.
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The mind,
in seeking “deeper meaning” in what it observes,
ends up finding none.
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In the affairs of man,
Life shouts out
what it’s all about.
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Proverb Update
The collective are want to say that
“it takes a whole village to raise a child,”
while the few understand that it requires one whole individual to
ever awaken himself.
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Anything you eat can change your state,
likewise what you drink;
what you hear and see also can alter your condition,
but mainly it comes down to whatever you’re thinking about.
…Well, of course, that in conjunction with
discovering where what you think comes from!
Hey! — are we actin’ silly and havin’ some fun now, or what?
…(“Where it comes from” — what a riot!)
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One version has it that
the very first mystics had no idea what to call this kind of activity,
and just as a stopgap measure came up with the name “Mystical,”
and then by the time some of the later ones understood it more clearly,
the original name had become so popular with outsiders (among others)
that is now seems permanently affixed.
…(Not that it matters to those who know.)
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The mind can mentally “step on the hand,”
even step on the heart,
but what it finds most difficult is to step on itself.
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What can mercury see when it looks in a mirror?
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Man’s attempts to “treat” or repair his soul do not work —
for they’re not intended to work.
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The simple look to the past,
the sophisticated, to their wallets,
while who knows where the few are actually looking.
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The Court Philosopher stood and declared:
“Thoughts are like an army of ants.”
And His Grace muttered: “Yes, and much harder to defeat.”
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A man once asked a mystic to play a game of “Let’s Say That…”
to which the supercharged one agreed, and off the man began,
“Let’s say that it takes someone five or ten years
to find a path that seems appropriate for him….”
And the mystic said, “Okay.” And the man continued,
“And let’s say that it takes one twenty or thirty years
to get a clear idea of just where all such paths lead….”
And the mystic nodded and said, “Go on.” And the man did so,
“And let’s say that it then takes another five years or so
to really understand exactly what it is that stands between him
and the goal of the struggle–.” And right there the mystic stopped him,
and asked, “Who put you up to this meaningless, chronological meandering?”
According to one rarely repeated legend,
the only thing that can permanently kill a mystic,
during those times between his personal full moon,
is a bullet made of materials too complex, confused, and convoluted.
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Man’s older ideas of many gods came from the fact of many minds;
later notions of a One God were reflections of things not theological.
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Another situation possible within each person
exemplary of the distinction between an
ordinary mental condition and extraordinary one
would be like the difference between someone who doesn’t care, and
someone who knows not to care.
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The notion of “ancestor worship” becomes transparent
when you discover there’s an ancient one still alive in you,
a silent recluse,
hidden in the depths — just behind your thoughts.
It is not so much that Adam left Eden as it is that
he folded it up,
put it in his billfold,
slipped it in his back pocket, and kinda forgot about it.
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One man thought about life,
as he went about living, he thought about life.
He lived, and he thought,
he thought, and he lived,
he lived life, and he thought about living.
One man thought about life.
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When we awake in the morning we know we’re no longer dreaming,
and when the more awakened awake in the middle of the day,
they are always greatly amazed and pleased.
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Today’s Travel Tip
Although Istanbul is certainly the aim of the trip,
you still sure can have a lot of fun on the way.
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Information Age Update
If you don’t take any garbage in,
you won’t have to worry about any going out.
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The Soul: what those lacking familiarity with the mind like to call theirs.
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Okay, now for today’s big Mystical Question:
What is undoubtably the most useless, ill-directed, asinine undertaking
possible?
— To try and tell people about this.
But then again,
as regards the stresses of multiple occupations so common to ordinary man,
one of the minor benefits of being a mystic might be that
you only have one job.
Remember:
life giveth,
and
life taketh away —
but mainly it’s your imagination.
…So, now you could quiz yourself and ponder:
“Is that why I shouldn’t even try and describe to myself
what this as actually all about?”
…(Oh, all right, I’ll give you a hint: yes.)
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If you have to remind someone of what a friend you’ve been to them,
then they’re not really much of a friend.
…(But don’t try telling this to your thoughts.)
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The simple like to ride trains,
the sophisticated like to discuss the metaphorical possibilities of such
rides, while the few — the few — (God & Casey Jones love ’em)
just wanna get off! — derail it! — move to another universe
(or somethin’!)
…but careful now —
it’s just an allegory.
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According to another version of man’s origins myth,
not only did Adam partake of a forbidden fruit while in the Garden,
but also, just as he was leaving, swallowed something else quite
extraordinary.
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By Request: A Slightly Shifted Verbal Run-At-It, One More Time
The Secret is not so much a thing as it is an experience.
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Men have long loved to repeat the adage:
“A coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave man, only once.”
But a more useful version for the few would be:
“The mind is stupid a trillion times, but awareness only once.”
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Possessions
Only the more awakened know what belongs to them.
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Possessions And Being Possessed
Only the more awakened know what belongs to them
and what they can and should do without
in light of the larger prize they seek.
When one man heard a sales pitch that began
“do you believe you can’t afford a quality bed,” he thought,
“Hell, I can’t afford sleep.”
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Today’s Ballistic Travel Tip
All of the many stations between Paris and Istanbul are to be destroyed.
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One man’s motto was
“Come one, come all — everyone invited!
(That is, except for your thought!)”
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A Hierarchy Of Exculpations
If your only excuse is that you’re human, that’s pretty good;
if your only excuse is that you’re you, that’s better;
if your only excuse is silence, better yet,
and if your excuse is also internal silence, then you’re really getting
somewhere.
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Those who believe that death is the most serious aspect to living
have a lot to learn.
…(Assuming they live long enough.)
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Even given sufficient time and interest,
if you described to the ordinary everything The Secret is not,
they still wouldn’t get it.
…Well, hey! — have you?
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Who the hell besides a mystic likes a joke that turns out to be on them?
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If you mentally run with a herd,
you may expect to remain a cow.
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Any attempted mystical philosophy which does not ultimately lead to
no-philosophy-at-all
was not mystical to begin with.
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Once, in one land, was a certain mind condemned to death,
and when allowed to choose its own form of execution, it said:
“I’ll just take some more glue, thank you.”
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One guy (though he doesn’t want to admit it) has a private slogan:
“I wouldn’t take anything for having gotten on this train,
yet sometimes it nearly drives me mad.”
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Men have asked:
“Must we overcome the body to be free in the mystical sense?”
And while it be so that one cannot be pursuing The Liberation while
gradually committing physical suicide,
this is just the beginning;
the ultimate struggle for freedom is with something
much more subtle than bones and sinews.
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Instead of a mirror,
one guy hung a sign above his bathroom sink that said: “Fuck You!”
…(Hey, lighten up, sport —
it’s just a joke…or a…a…a metaphor, or something like that.)
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In one sense,
there is no such thing as a serious person who knows The Secret…
which will cause someone to wonder whether this means that
no serious person ever discovers The Secret, or that
once it is discovered, no one is ever serious again.
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The Hallmark Of Good Vision
Nowhere: where a mystic looks when he cares enough to see the very best.
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Pop Quiz:
If you were in a locked room with a starving lion,
a deranged alligator, and your own thoughts,
and had a gun with only two bullets — who would you shoot?”
…And one guy said: “My thoughts, twice.”
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Is it not interesting that only man can be liberated —
and only he who is captive?
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Today’s Final Travel Tip
Once on the Mystical Mental Express,
if you’ll remove (or at least ignore)
the adhesive that holds the individual cars together,
you’ll arrive a lot sooner.
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If the simple have an excuse for everything,
and the sophisticated, an explanation,
then the more knowing have nothing to offer.
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The philosophy & teaching of the mystical exists only where the experience
does not.
…(A thumbnail guide for those who have already,
at some time,
pulled theirs out.)
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All ways but the true way concern themselves with
man’s behavior and his relationships with others —
this is their giveaway.
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The Hidden Justice Of It Examined Yet Again-Gain:
As long as you believe that you are ill, disturbed, or damaged in some way,
you cannot be healed, pacified, or made whole.
…If it weren’t so beautiful, it’d be frightening…I guess…to children.
…Put it to you another way:
The Great Quest will never be widely popular for the simple reason that
it doesn’t seem to cure anything.
(Hint, hint! [Pant, pant] — four thousand & three.)
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The isolation so often mentioned by mystics,
and so misunderstood by outsiders,
is not one of physical seclusion from other people,
but rather a separation of one’s consciousness from thought.
A man one had a bed laid out for a garden,
and, as strange as it sounds,
once he began to seed it,
the type garden he wanted became impossible.
A man pondered:
“Is it our expectations that are in error, or
the mechanism that gives rise to our expectations?”
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Looked at from an even more oblique view:
The mystical quest is the only thing in man’s world
for which there is no adequate metaphor.
“Believe It Or Choke On Some Rhetoric,” Professor Ripley.
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How to unquestionably identify people who understand nothing about life:
they take their plight personally and seriously.
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When secrets wish to hide from man,
they do so right behind his forehead.
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The extent of mystical compassion is about like this:
those less conscious than you will never be aware of it,
so lay off of ’em.