You Are Thinking or Conscious, Not Both
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2029 97086.29 12/10/97 Copyright J. M. Cox 1997
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There are two mental possibilities for man: you are either thinking, or you
are conscious. And they are two entirely different states.
If you’re thinking, you’re not conscious, and if you’re conscious, you’re
not thinking.
(And that’s a wrap!)
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Man lives in two realms: in “life,” and in “conditions.”
Life is just “there” — the silent, physical world; conditions are all of
the circumstances conjured up by man’s thinking.
Life is to the body as conditions are to the mind.
(And that’s another wrap!)
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A man is either conscious or he is thinking — one of the two. To check if
you’re conscious, ask yourself “am I conscious?” And if you answer “yes”
then you are.
To check if you’re not conscious, see if you’re thinking; if you are, then
you’re not.
Rule: It is good for a man to know the difference between thinking and
consciousness.
Rule II: It is even better for a man to be constantly aware of whether he is
thinking or is conscious.
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Life makes men —
men make conditions —
conditions make men confused.
Life simply makes men,
and it is then men who make up the conditions that confuse them.
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Some Distinctions Between Thinking And Consciousness
— Thinking ceaselessly talks and attaches itself to things; consciousness
never does.
— Thinking never reveals the nature of life; consciousness will (and as a
matter of fact, has known all along).
— Thinking is not the individual “self” men dream of; conscious is.
— And thinking can never satisfy the inner man — only consciousness can.
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All men live in the same “life,” but believe they all live in different
“conditions” — this belief is the source of all uniquely “human” problems.
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Thinking is consciousness dragged to its lowest possible level…for a few,
that is; for most, thinking will be the highest form of their mental
awareness.
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There was a race of creatures who found a thing that gave them exceptional
powers — it later produced in them a dream of an additional ability, whose
realization however the presence of the original powers prevented.
The mind giveth and the mind taketh away,
without the mind ever recognizing-eth
exactly what the mind be up-eth to.
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A man said to a mystic, “You certainly have a knack for coming up with
metaphors.”
And he replied, “I deserve no credit, it was the human mind that originally
conceived of the concept when it first turned ‘being alive’ into ‘living
amidst ‘conditions.'”
A boy asked his father, “Does thought distort everything?”
“Yes,” the elder nodded.
“Does thought camouflage everything?” he asked.
And again the old man nodded his aye.
Then the lad asked, “Does thought separate man from everything?”
“Yes,” his father indicated.
And the boy finally asked, “Does thought ruin everything?”
And his progenitor replied, “Only if being human ruins being alive!”
“And if, with any individual, that proves to be true, the solution for him
is to find enlightenment.”
The lad may learn yet that, for any question thoughts may proffer, an answer
thoughts will offer.
Additional note: Life is just life — “conditions” are man’s metaphor for
life.
(And a damn piss-poor one at that, once you see through it.)
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There is no such thing as a valid “thinking view,” only consciousness
provides a faithful representation of what is to be seen.
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A girl asked her mother, “What do you call rude noises that come from your
body?”
And she replied, “It’s according to which end of your body they come from.”
“The-Installation-Of-Civilization,
And It’s Attendant Proper Approach To
‘Relative-Assignment-Of-Blame.'”
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Thinking men (with their individual sense of “I”)
live in two realms: in life, and in conditions.
There are conditions because man has an “I,”
and man has an “I” because there are conditions.
There are conditions because man thinks,
and man thinks because there are conditions.
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People in the woods are not confused —
it is only after they receive instructions that they become so.
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To think is to be definitively human —
to think is to be trapped in a room of mirrors.
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Life is just “there” — impartial, impersonal, and seemingly inactive.
Conditions, on the other hand, strike man as extremely biased, personal,
and always in unpredictable flux.
Life is just “there,” having no particular taste of either this or that.
Conditions however seem to man to be annoying or pleasant, distracting or
informative, threatening or supportive.
Life presents nothing other than itself — to be alive.
Conditions are the source of all that men call “problems,” but seen clearly
it is not after all actually conditions, but rather men’s thinking, which
alone gives birth to his perception that there are these
never settled,
ever frustrating,
always potentially dangerous — “conditions.”
To live solely in life (and never in conditions) is what is called
being Enlightened,
being Awake,
being Free, and Knowing What’s Going On.
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The influence of man’s thinking
upon the conditions in which he lives
cannot be overemphasized
…in that it is his thinking that creates conditions.
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Beyond physical needs, only one thing disturbs man, and it is not
consciousness…it’s what gets into consciousness and replaces it.
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Life is not conditional, only the world of conditions is conditional —
hence, living in the realm of conditions is to live a life of uncertainty.
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Consciousness is sure and spontaneous — thinking, anything but.
Forget the adage “he who hesitates is lost” — he who hesitates is thinking!
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A Mystic: Someone who is totally self-centered, but it having nothing to do
with vanity or with them personally.
…How weird is that?
“Not weird enough,” you say. And to that I say, “Hey — you my kinda guy!”
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The “most important thing” in each man’s life is whatever he thinks it is.
Oh! and by the way, if you feel that the above noted fact represents
something of significance in a man’s actual life — then you need to “get
out more” (Or something.)
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Those who believe themselves insightful by saying that all religions are
basically the same still don’t understand, and embarrass themselves by their
words, for how can one nothing differ from another?
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Thinking is never verifiable — only consciousness is…inasmuch as life
never needs “proving.”
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As a quite elderly man lay on his death bed, he smiled and said, “My innards
are worn-n-n out.”
And someone leaned over and comfortingly responded, “The physical
deterioration of one’s organs is a natural part of growing old.”
And the old man waved away the comment, saying, “No, you fool, I’m not
referring to THOSE innards! — why do you think I smiled when I said it?”
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If consciousness was a piece of machinery, thinking would be it “froze up.”
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When this one man would hear someone giving out advice or offering
instructions, he often liked to say to them, “Hey! put it on bread and
maybe I’ll consider it.”
(Health considerations can always play a part, though God only knows what
I mean by that.)
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Perhaps the worst thing a man with the potential to awaken can do is to
listen seriously to himself think.
Thus a man’s greatest foe may prove to be — his own words…if not his own
unenlightened hearing.
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The Official Excuse for all dumb moves that are uncovered is for the human
perpetrator to say, “I was desperate!”
Such are the common results of living a life amidst conditions.
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Two kids went to see a man-who-knew, and one of them said to him, “Tell us
again about ‘Enlightenment.'”
And the second one said, “Screw that, reveal to us how to do it!”
And to accommodate the latter tyke’s interest, the one-who-knew dropped dead.
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If thinking was a terminal illness, then words would be mini-strokes.
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Those who believe themselves to be “right” are right, but note, “right” (as
a stand-alone concept) is nonexistent, and in fact, seen in its full
context, right is more wrong than it is right.
(But what else is new for two-eyed creatures in a land of imaginarily
limited dimensions?)
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Thinking is local and specific — consciousness, universal and of no fixed
address.
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Questioner: “How can you tell that a man is enlightened?”
Contestant: “Uhh…you don’t see him any more?”
Questioner: “Not bad, but the award-winning reply is: He doesn’t see himself
any more.”
Contestant: “…Uhhh…do I still get the luggage?”
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Minds of a feather flock together, that is, minds of a mind flock together.
Which is to note that animals that think run in bunches…real noisy and
annoying bunches.
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A man who has faith in words ultimately has faith in ideas, and a man who
has faith in ideas is ultimately an idiot.
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Those who live in the woods are not confused — it is only after they get
in conditions that they become so.
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Anything you think about just adds to the illusion that thinking about
things is meaningful.
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After throwing his paper down and shaking his fist and his watch upon just
missing his train, someone on the vestibule of the departing conveyance
shouted to him, “When you’re dead you won’t care what time it is.”
And the angry men shouted back, “Yeah, and neither will I when I’m
conscious!”
– – –
The school song of all accredited Institutions Of Enlightenment is entitled
“So What” — a ditty with no words, no music, and no rhythm.
(No sweat!)
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On one world was a certain beast that many wished to capture, but you could
never do so if you said, or even thought, that you wanted to.
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Waking up in an unusually exuberant mood, a man shouted out, “What a
wonderful world!”
Then, as he popped out of bed, cried out, “Talk to me, life!” — but alas,
it was conditions who answered.
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Compared to thinking, how do you spell “consciousness”?
Unfettered,
unconditional,
independent,
untouchable,
unattached,
liberated, and happy as hell — that’s how you spell consciousness.
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Another “Surefire Test”:
The South Side “Surefire Test”
If you have anything serious left to say, you still don’t get it. That is,
no matter how much you know, no matter how charmingly you can express it,
you still don’t know what’s going on.
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Thinking is a distortion in the mirror of consciousness.
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One man had a pack of wild, noisy dogs that lived around his house, and
after years of unsuccessfully attempting to tame and quiet them, he hit on
the tactic of bringing them into the house, thus turning conditions into
life, and settling the whole affair.
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Consciousness, Thinking, And Conversation
You can either drink filth —
spew filth —
or wash your mouth out (so to speak).
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Since life presents no problems, and they all come from conditions, and all
conditions arise from thoughts, does not the solution to “problems” seem
clear? (Not to mention simple.)
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A man asked a mystic, “As regards thinking being a problem, is the problem
with what we think, or is it with how we think, or is it with the fact that
we think? — and don’t just bundle ’em all together and answer yes.”
So the mystic replied thusly, “All right, the answer to your first question
is yes, the answer to your second question is yes, and the answer to your
third question is yes.”
And the man thought, “Damn! he got me again.” “Well, either that or the
reality of things did.”
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Everyone has this “thing,” and you can either play-with-it or it will play-
with-you.
(No, not that thing, you silly!)
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Now some Medical News
The best way to fight a virus is to make it sick first.
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In confirmation and expansion of a commonly held concept, the best things
in life ARE free — CONSCIOUSNESS!
Consciousness is always free, only thinking costs.
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There are two unique, special, extraordinary areas in the life of man: one
is the one that men say they know about; and the other one is totally
unknown to them, the real one.
Okay, I see that some of you find this pretty vague, so picture it this
way. Somewhere is hidden a great treasure, and it is in a box, but what few
ever realize, even if they spot it, is that the box is the treasure.
(You have to be extremely hard to please, and have a mind like a worm farmer
to easily understand this matter.)
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The only way to actually appreciate the difference between thinking and
consciousness is to not think about it.
A Conscious Man’s Mirror: One that would show only the body — never the
thinking.
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Consciousness is always free and in motion — thinking, always fixed and
immobile.
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The natures of thinking and consciousness are not to be understood through
explanations and instructions.
“The Experiential Lab is now open…for the perceptive, it is always open.”
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Reminder Update
No matter what men appear to be talking about, it’s always about the mind.
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Adage Update
Think not — want not.
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Solutions Update
Consciousness is the answer to everything.
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Hearing experts in the area of propaganda claim that it encourages the
maximum of aggressive action against an enemy if you think of them as having
a foreign sounding name, one man immediately named all of his thoughts
Vladamushkish Groptimotzaldoff.
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Thinking can certainly be fun, but for a few, not doing so is even more so.
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A man who lets his knowledge show has no knowledge.
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What is a man’s true self but his unthinking consciousness?
What is enlightenment other than knowing this?
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Thoughts: The facility whereby men can make up an entire train from one
imaginary boxcar.
A Mystic: A man who can make the train fly.
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In every instant of your life you are either “conscious” (and thus
enlightened) or else you are “thinking” (and surely by now there’s no need
for further comment regarding the inevitable outcome of this).
The Consciousness Bar is now open! — drinks are on the house! (just like
they’ve always been).