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RATHER THAN BECOMING ATTACHED TO THE MAPPING OF MAN’S BRAIN ACTIVITY BEING DIVIDED INTO THE CATEGORIES OF: “USEFUL, SURVIVAL-RELATED, “PROBLEM-SOLVING”, AND THEN EVERYTHING ELSE LABELED AS: “USELESS, MEANINGLESS & A WASTE OF TIME”, TRY THIS: ALL BRAIN ACTIVITY IS EITHER: PROBLEM-SOLVING
HARMLESS, OR, DISTURBING. (“HARMLESS” AND “DISTURBING” NOW. REPRESENTING TWO MORE SPECIFIC DIVISION OF WHAT WAS FORMALLY UNDER THE SOBRIQUET OF SIMPLY, “USELESS”.
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ONE MAN STILL REMEMBERS HOW “GREAT” IT WAS WHEN HE FIRST REALIZED THAT WHEN HE WOULD FIND CERTAIN THOUGHTS HE WAS HAVING TO BE “DISTURBING” THAT HE COULD: “THINK OF ONE THING, RATHER THAN OF ANOTHER.”
HE SAYS HE PRESENTLY PERCEIVES THE NEXT CHALLENGE AS BEING ABLE TO INDEFINITELY SUSTAIN THIS REALIZATION — IN PRACTICE!”
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THE ORDINARY “LIVE AND DREAM”, BUT KNOW NOT THAT THEY DREAM:
PROMISING MYSTICS ALSO, “LIVE AND DREAM”, BUT WITH THE ADDITIONAL OF HAVING BEEN MADE AWARE OF THEIR DREAMING.
THOSE WHO ULTIMATELY SUCCEED IN THE ENDEAVOR ARE THOSE WHO “LIVE-WITH” A CEASELESS AWARENESS THAT: “MAN LIVES — AND MAN DREAMS”
…(NOTE: THERE IS NO CLASSIFICATION FOR THOSE WHO NEVER GET PAST THE POINT OF JUST DREAMING ABOUT THEIR DREAMING — RATHER THAN BEING CONSTANTLY KNOWLEDGEABLE OF IT.)
QUERY: CAN YOU TOO OFTEN REMIND YOURSELF THAT: “IF YOU DO NOT DREAM — YOU ARE NOT ASLEEP” ?
ANSWER –, HELL NO!…I CAN’T EVEN BELIEVE THAT YOU ASKED!
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UNREGISTERED FACT: A MAN WITH A TYPEWRITER & AN INTEREST 11\1 AWAKENING DOESN’T EVER NEED TO! ….HE CAN JUST WRITE ABOUT UNTIL IT UNTIL THE COWS
COME BACK TO CAPISTRANO…OR INFINITY “RUNS OUT OF SPACE” (WHICHEVER COMES FIRST
MANY PEOPLE “DREAM OF” BEING “TEACHERS..-OF-ENLIGHTENMENT:’: THESE ARE PEOPLE, INSUFFICIENTLY ENLIGHTENED.
MORE REGARDING THE APPROACH OF SAYING TO YOUR DREAMING: “JUST RELAX”: JUST RELAX — OR YOU ARE NOT “FULLY ALIVE”:
YOUR “NATURE”WILL AUTOMATICALLY TAKE CARE OF ALL NEEDED “TENSENESS”
TO “JUST RELAX” IS OBVIOUSLY IN ORDER WHEN YOU FIND YOUR DREAMING TO BE, “DISTURBING” –
BUT IT IS ALSO USEFUL WHEN YOU DISCOVER YOUR HEAD ONCE AGAIN, IMMERSED IN JUST THE “HARMLESS” VERSION WE MENTIONED EARLIER.
WHEN :[T COMES TO THE REALM OF DREAMING: IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO, “RELAX TOO MUCH”.
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THE AWAKENED KNOW THAT THE SONGS BEING SUNG IN THEIR HEAD WERE COMPOSED ELSEWHERE — THOSE BUT PARTIALLY AWAKE CONTINUE TO TRY AND ALTER THE TUNES —
— AND AS YOU PROBABLY SUSPECT: THOSE FULLY AWAKE HAVE SIMPLY,”QUIT LISTENING
…IS IT ALL STARTING TO CONGEAL?,
ARE YOU BEGINNING TO SEE THAT TO “BE ASLEEP” IS TO BE “INAPPROPRIATELY — TENSE”?! AND TO “BE AWAKE” IS TO SIMPLY, “BE RELAXED”?!
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AN INTELLIGENT “PATIENT’S VIEW”: IF THE TREATMENTS DO NOT KILL ME
THEN PERHAPS THE MALADY FROM WHICH I AM BEING TREATED — WILL NOT.
QUERY: HOW IS THIS SIMILAR TO A MAN DEDICATED TO A SYSTEM FOR ENLIGHTENMENT? …SURE, I’LL TELL YOU: IN THE MYSTIC’S CASE IT IS LIKE THIS:
IF MY ALLEGIANCE TO TO TEACHING DOES NOT TERMINALLY “PUT ME TO SLEEP”
THEN MAYBE I HAVE SOME CHANCE IN STRUGGLING AGAINST EVERYDAY CONDITIONS. …(YOU AMY REVERSE THIS PRESCRIPTION IF NEED BE).
RELATED NOTATION: A REALLY ALERT, “WOULD-BE-WAKER-UPPER”
IF HE HEARD SOMETHING SUPPOSEDLY PERTINENT THERETO, THAT HE DID NOT
IMMEDIATELY COMPREHEND,
HE WOULD NEVER SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
HEY — SINCE THERE ARE NO “ANSWERS” WHICH WILL “AWAKEN YOU”
THEN FOR DAMN SURE THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS ABOUT “THE ANSWERS” THAT WILL.
ANYTHING YOU DO NOT INSTANTLY “UNDERSTAND’ IS IN THE MEANINGLESS, HARMLESS
“WORLD OF DREAMS” — THUS YOU CAN IGNORE SUCH & FORGET ABOUT IT FROM THE OUTSET.
A NAN ASKED A MYSTIC: “WOULD THERE BE A BENEFIT IN ME ‘SEWING MY MOUTH SHUT’?” , AND THE SHARP ONE REPLIED: “WHY USE A NEEDLE?!”
QUERY: WHY IS IT SO GOD-AWFUL DIFFICULT, (VERGING ON THE IMPOSSIBLE), TO,
IN A MANNER SATISFYING,
DESCRIBE MAN’S, “INNER LIFE”? — WELL, THE REASON IS SIMPLE:
IT IS BECAUSE IT IS AN ILLUSIONARY WORLD….ONE THAT DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST…. …LEASTWISE NOT ENOUGH TO BE DESCRIBABLE.
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THERE WAS ONCE A LAND THAT WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS;
AND IN ONE PART, IT WAS ALWAYS LIGHT,
AND IN THE OTHER PART, IT WAS ALWAYS DARK.
THE AWAKENED KNOW WHAT I MEAN — AND NEVER CONFUSE THE TWO,
NOR DO THEY FUTILELY ATTEMPT TO ALTER THESE TWO — IN-ALTERABLES.
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BE QUITE CLEAR ON THIS ONE MATTER:
THERE ARE SEVERAL WELL IDENTIFIED AREAS THAT CAN BE OF NO HELP IN AWAKENING, (AND THESE ARE): ALL WORDS, IDEAS, OPINIONS, OR ANY OTHER SOUNDS ISSUING FROM A HUMAN HEAD.
RELATED ITEM OF INTEREST TO THOSE WITH ADVANCED HEARING:
THE ONE WAY IN WHICH IT IS POSSIBLE TO BENEFIT FROM IDEAS EXPRESSED BY THE AWAKENED
WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE YOU
IS IN READING WHAT THEY SAID
BUT GIVING TO IT — “NO SECOND THOUGHT”,
(WHICH IS TO SAY): IN NOT ADDING YOUR DREAMING TO WHAT WAS SAID.
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BET YOU NEVER LOOKED AT THE MATTER FROM THIS ANGLE: YOUR “NATURE” IS ALWAYS,
“CLEAR-HEADED”: IT IS ONLY THE ACTIVITY IN YOUR HEAD — THAT IS NOT.
AND A BOY ASKED HIS FATHER: “IS DREAMING ALWAYS CONFUSING?”, AND THE ELDER REPLIED: “WHY WOULD ANYONE IMAGINE THAT ‘NUMBERS-HAVE-AN-AROMA’?
THERE IS A CERTAIN BUS THAT IS AWAKE….THAT IS, UNTIL YOU “CRANK IT UP”, AND ATTEMPT TO GO SOME WHERE IN IT.
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SEEKING ENLIGHTENMENT SEEMS TO START OUT AS A BATTLE: A CONFLICT, A WARFARE:
THEN.. AS YOU BEGIN TO REALIZE WHAT IT TRULY IS, IT BECOMES MORE LIKE AN — ATTEMPTED “CRITICISM”
TO BELIEVE THAT SOME ONE ELSE HAS — OR HAS HAD
IDEAS, TEACHINGS, DISCIPLINES
THAT WILL CAUSE YOU TO AWAKEN
IS TO UNWITTINGLY BELIEVE THAT ADDING SOMEONE ELSE’S DREAMING TO YOUR OWN
WILL SOMEHOW BRING ABOUT THE END OF YOUR OWN.
…(WHEN PUT IN WAYS LIKE THIS: DOES IT NOT SOUND, OH-SO-FOOLISH” …OF COURSE THIS IS THE SAME OLD “FISH-EYED-FACT” THAT: “NOTHING HAS ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH, “ENLIGHTENMENT”
BECAUSE IF ANYTHING DID — IT WOULD NOT BE “ENLIGHTENMENT”
WHICH IS SIMPLY ANOTHER WORD FOR, “FREEDOM”, (OF A PARTICULAR SORT).
…AND A LAD ASKED HIS DAD: “IF WE LOOKED AT ALL OF THE ESTABLISHED & RESPECTED APPROACHES TO AWAKENING AS BEING: ‘MAINSTREAM MEDICINE’, THEN ARE THERE: ‘ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES’?,
“YES”, HE REPLIED, “BUT THEY ARE ALL SILENT AND UNKNOWN,
SAVE TO THOSE WHO — PRACTICE THEM.”
…REMEMBER THIS: IF YOU CAN, “DREAM IT” — IT’S USELESS.
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ALL “HEAD ACTIVITY” IS ACTUALLY, “DREAMING” — EVEN SURVIVAL RELATED,
“PROBLEM SOLVING”,
IN THAT IT IS JUST “DREAMING OF HOW TO DO A CERTAIN THING
MORE EFFICIENTLY.”
NOTE: THOSE WHO STILL BELIEVE THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO TOTALLY ESCAPE THE INFLUENCE OF DREAMING
ARE PEOPLE IN FOR A “SAD SHOCK”….THAT IS, IF THEY EVER REALIZED WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON….BUT IF THEY DID THAT, THEN IT WOULDN’T BE A “SAD SHOCK”, OR ANY KIND OF SHOCK, WOULD IT.
LET DREAMING REMAIN WHERE IT BELONGS: IN ITS OWN HARMLESS, LITTLE
MAKE BELIEVE WORLD.
…AN IRRESISTIBLE: P.S.: THE REASON THAT IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO GET YOUR HANDS DIRECTLY ON DREAMING AND TO BRING IT UNDER CONTROL IS THE FACT THAT IT IS SO HARMLESS TO BEGIN WITH.
FACT: NO ONE ATTEMPTS TO “OUTLAW MARSHMALLOWS”,
OR PERFORM LOBOTOMIES ON YOGURT. GIVE IT UP, I SAY.–
— GIVE UP THE MEANINGLESS ASSAULT ON THE MEANINGLESS.
THE BIBLICAL “GARDEN STORY” STRAIGHTENED OUT, YET AGAIN:
GOD DID NOT DRIVE ADAM FROM PARADISE FOR EATING OF FORBIDDEN FRUIT,
IT HAPPENED LIKE THIS:
ONE DAY GOD HAPPENED TO TAKE NOTICE OF ADAM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME ,
AND SAID TO HIM: “WHAT IS THAT YOU ARE DOING IN YOUR HEAD?”, TO WHICH ADAM
RESPONDED: “WHY I DON”T KNOW I GUESS ?!?!”, AND THE BIG GUY
IMMEDIATELY EXCLAIMED: “YOU’RE OUTTA HERE!”
QUERY: BASED ON THIS VERSION, IF THERE WAS “FAULT-TO-FIND”, THEN WHOSE WAS IT:? ADAM’S, FOR HAVING TAKEN UP DREAMING’?
OR GOD’S, FOR NOT INITIALLY RECOGNIZING WHAT HE HIMSELF HAD PUT IN MOTION ?!
OKAY, OKAY, I’LL GIVE YOU THE ANSWER:
THE FAULT LAYS WITH YOU FOR LISTENING TO SUCH STORIES.
DREAMING DOESN’T JUST SOMEHOW, “SLIP UP YOU” — NO,
IT IS DREAMING THAT CAUSE YOU TO “SLIP UP” AND BELIEVE THAT THE DREAMING IS YOU.
…AND A BOY ASKED HIS DAD: “BUT WITH OUT HIS DREAMING WHAT WOULD A MAN BE?!”
AND THE OLD BOY TOOK A GUESS: “AWAKE?!?!”