Jan Cox Talk 2229

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The News

WE OPEN WITH A QUESTION:
“DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING? — ANSWER: NO,
BUT EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT THEY’RE DOING WITHOUT KNOWING THAT THEY, “KNOW-WHAT-THEY’RE-DOING” ,
WHICH IS TO SAY THAT: EVERYONE KNOWS IN THEIR NATURE — “WHAT THEY’RE DOING”, BUT NEVER IN THEIR DREAMING.
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WHILE “DREAMING”, YOU DROWN — WHEN “DOING”, YOU FLY.
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AS REGARDS: “PEOPLE CARING FOR ONE ANOTHER”:
YOU CAN ONLY TRULY “CARE” ABOUT ANOTHER PERSON — “IN-YOUR-NATURE”: CARING FOR THEM IN YOUR DREAMING IS AT BEST, USELESS,
AND AT WORST, LIABLE TO TURN INTO ITS OPPOSITE.
NOTE: THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE THAT IS NOT POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS – IN DREAMING.
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NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING WHATSOEVER ABOUT, “KNOWING”,
AND ONLY THE AWAKENED KNOW THIS
…SO YOU COULD SAY THAT WHILE NO ONE ELSE KNOWS ANYTHING
THE AWAKENED AT LEAST KNOW ONE THING — WHICH IS THAT:”NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING”….
…WHICH SORTA MAKES THE WHOLE THING, “SELF-DEFEATING”,
(AS THOSE WHO “KNOW SOMETHING” MIGHT CALL IT.)
ALSO NOTE: IF YOU CAN CALL SOMETHING BY A NAME THAT SATISFIES YOU —
— THEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT AND ARE FAST IN DREAMS.
THE FACT DOES REMAIN THAT YOU CAN “KNOW YOUR NATURE”, BUT NEVER KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT YOUR “KNOWING”
WHICH IS JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING THAT:
“DREAMING CAN NEVER RECOGNIZE ITSELF FOR WHAT IT IS.”
YOUR NATURE KNOWS WHAT IT IS — EVEN THOUGH THE QUESTION NEVER ARISES —
WHILE YOUR DREAMING WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT IT IS — EVEN THOUGH IT IS CONTINUALLY MAKING SUCH INQUIRIES.
…(IT’S STILL “PRETTY NEAT”,[IS IT NOT] HOW THIS WHOLE THING PLAYS ITSELF OUT?!)
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ONCE YOUR HEAD IS “CLEAR” — EVERYTHING IS CLEAR.
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SINCE “DREAMS” HAVE NO SUBSTANCE — HOW CAN THEY EVER BE “BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL”‘
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LET ME PUT SOMETHING TO YOU YET AGAIN, IN A SLIGHTLY ALTERED FORM:
NOTHING KNOWN TO MAN HAS ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH, “BEING AWAKE” – (AS A MATTER OF FACT):
EVERYTHING THAT MAN KNOWS IS WHAT CAUSES HIM TO SLEEP AND DREAM.
THUS: NO “KNOWING” — NO SLEEPING:
NO “KNOWING” — NO DREAMING —
— THEN ALL THAT IS LEFT IS YOUR: NATURALLY AWAKE, ENLIGHTENED, AND LIBERATED, “NATURE”.
YOU ARE THEN ‘THE SUPREME POPEYE: “YOU YAM WHAT YOU YAM!”
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EVERYONE WANTS TO “BE AWAKE”….UNTIL THEY FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS
…THEN IT’S TOO LATE….THEN THEY ARE– “AWAKE”.
…(STILL NEAT AS HELL, HUH?!
….[AND BY THE WAY – I JUST GOTTA ASK:
SINCE I MENTIONED IT: HAVE ANY OF YOU TAKEN UP THE WILLFUL HABIT OF
CONTINUALLY ASKING YOUR NATURE: “WELL, WHAT D’YA THINK?”….
…I’M TELLIN’ YA — YOU OUTTA TRY IT,
THE RESULTING REVELATION OF THIS LITTLE ENDEAVOR IS DOWNRIGHT, “HEAD CLEARING”].
…OH YEAH, AND SOMETHING ELSE: I WANNA QUOTE TO YOU WHAT ONE MAN RECENTLY SAID, (HE SAID): “I CAN’T QUIT THINKING! — I MEAN, ‘DREAMING’, (YOU MUST PARDON ME, I KEEP CONFUSING DREAMING FOR THINKING ….BUT THEN AM I BUT DREAMING WHEN I BELIEVE THAT I HAVE CAUGHT MYSELF CONFUSING THE TWO?!
…AHHHH, IT IS ALL SO — CONFUSING!” —
WELL, HEY!, MISTER!, THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR – “THINKING”, I MEAN, “DREAMING” YIKES !!!!])
QUEERY: WHAT WOULD BE THE PROPER DESCRIPTION OF A TRUE, “TEACHER OF AWAKENING”? ANSWER: SOMEONE WHO CAN MAKE THE SIMPLE SO-0-0 COMPLEX THAT BY THE TIME YOU UNRAVEL IT & GET THRU IT, YOU THEN HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO REALIZE THE SIMPLICITY.
IN ANOTHER CITY, ONE STORE HAD A SALE ON: “HOW TO HANDLE — ‘DREAMING”.”, AND THE FASTEST MOVING ITEM WAS THE ONE LABELED:
“THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO HANDLE DREAMING: DON’T DO IT.”,
…(MAN!, I’D HATE TO BE THE PERSON WORKING THE, “RETURNS” COUNTER!
…[AND A GUY WORKING IN THE WAREHOUSE IN BACK SAID TO HIMSELF: “I BELIEVE I’LL HAVE THAT ONE TATTOOED ON MY ARM THAT SAID:
‘SINCE DREAMS HAVE NO SUBSTANCE — HOW CAN THEY EVER BE,_”BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL?Q”‘”
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AS CONCERNS: “METHODS TO AWAKEN THE MIND”:
IF YOUR HEAD IS EMPTY, AND YOU THUS, “HAVE NO MIND”, OF WHAT USE ARE ANY INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO AWAKEN IT?! …(GOD!, IS IT JUST MY IMAGINATION,
OR DOES IT NOT GET — NEATER AND NEATER?!)
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OH, AND SOMETHING NEW JUST CAME IN CONCERNING THAT STORE I MENTIONED JUST A MINUTE
AGO THAT HAD A SALE ON: “HOW TO HANDLE DREAMING.”, AND WHOSE BIGGEST SELLER
WAS AN ITEM THAT GOES BY THE NAME: “DON’T DO IT.” — WELL,
IT SEEMS THAT A CERTAIN ASSISTANT MANAGER HAS THROWN THIS LITTLE VIEW OF HIS
INTO THIS METAPHYSICAL, COMMERCIAL MIX, HE NOW SAYS THIS:
“WOULDN’T SIMPLY IGNORING THE DREAMING BE EASIER APPROACH THAN TRYING TO ACTUALLY
STOP IT?!” — NICE TRY, SIR, BUT, RETAIL-LY SPEAKING — DIG THIS REALITY:
IF YOU DO START TO JUST IGNORE THE DREAMING — IT DISAPPEARS ANY WAY.
…WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT? —
…AND I’LL GO AHEAD AND GIVE YOU ONE PROFITABLE RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION:
“YOU” CANNOT MAKE ANYTHING “OUT-OF-THE-QUESTION”, BECAUSE,
([F YOU WILL BUT NOTICE), OUTSIDE OF THE DREAMING THERE IS NO “YOU”
TO BE MAKING ANYTHING OUR OF ANYTHING.
ONLY THOSE SECURELY IN DREAMS MAKE ANYTHING OUT OF JUST, “BEING ALIVE”,
AND ONLY THOSE AWAKE FROM THE SLEEP KNOW THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BE “MADE” OF JUST-.-. — BEING ALIVE.
DO ANY OF YOU SEE IT THIS CLEARLY ON A REGULAR BASIS?! — NOT SIMPLY LISTENING
TO ME “TALK ABOUT” — BUT DO YOU CONTINUALLY LOOK INSIDE YOURSELF AND REALIZE THAT
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WHEN YOUR SO-CALLED “MIND” IS THOROUGHLY TAKEN UP WITH THE AUTOMATICALLY RUNNING OF THE DREAMS,
THAT THERE PLAINLY IS NOT, AT THAT MOMENT,
ANYTHING IN YOU THAT EVEN LOOSELY COULD BE REFEREED TO AS A, “YOU, APART FROM THE DREAMING.
WHEN THIS FACT IS MORE DEEPLY EMBEDDED, IT IS THEN OBVIOUS,
WHY THE ENDLESS DIFFICULTLY IN EVER BRINGING THE DREAMING UNDER YOUR CONTROL—-JUST LOOK AT THE FACTS OF THE SITUATION AS YOU HAVE, AGAIN & AGAIN
EXPERIENCED IT:
IF — SOME WHERE INSIDE THE CONSCIOUS, VERBAL ACTIVITY OF THE BRAIN, THERE IS SOME ACTUAL, SUBSTANTIVE “YOU”,
THEN — AFTER ALL OF YOUR MANY & VARIED EFFORTS —
WOULD NOT SURELY BY NOW —
THIS ACTUAL “YOU” BE ABLE TO BEND THE RAMBLING, DREAMY MIND TO ITS WILL?!
EVEN THE INITIALLY, SCRAWNIEST-OF-WEAKLINGS, (IF HE HAS AN UPPER ARM),
CAN, THROUGH BLIND ROTE EXERCISE =EVENTUALLY, AND PREDICTABLY,
BUILD A STRONGER BICEP.
CONSIDER HOW FAR REMOVED FROM THIS PHYSICAL, MUSCULAR REALITY
IS THE ENDEAVOR TO CHANGE OR OVERCOME THE WORLD-OF-DREAMING.
AN ALERT, HIP WARRIOR DOES NOT ONLY NOT WASTE HIS ENERGY BATTLING”UNBEATABLE FOES” BUT MOREOVER, THE SUPER ALERT & KNOWLEDGEABLE EVEN ABANDON THE CONFLICT WITH “NON-EXISTENT” ONES.
–(COME ON — YOU LOOK “SUPER ALERT & HIP TO ME! —
NOW ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS INTERNALLY — “ACT THE PART”.
…(ALSO, MAY I REMIND YOU AGAIN: EVERYONE IS ACTUALLY, “SOME BODY”,
AND YO_U_TRULY DO HAVE A “SELF” — BUT IT IS CERTAINLY NOT THE SLIPPERY, SHADOWY SENSATION OF ONESELF THAT MEN ORDINARY EXTRACT FROM THEIR RANDOM, IMPERSONAL DREAMING.
TAKE AWAY ALL OF YOUR DREAMING, AND WHAT IS LEFT IS YOUR “SELF”.
…[I AM AWARE THAT I CONTINUE TO BUNG UP THIS MATTER, AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND I TRUST THAT IN MY SO DOING THAT YOU ARE NOT “OFFENDED” BY THE REPETITION. …(COURSE WE’VE ALREADY ESTABLISHED THE FACT THAT WHILE HE CAN BE “HURT”,
A MORE AWAKENED MAN CANNOT BE OFFENDED. …[YOU REMEMBER THAT ONE TOO, RIGHT?!])]
AND FINALLY: A “NEVER-FAIL-TEST” BY WHICH TO TELL IF SOMEONE WHO IS STRUGGLING TO AWAKEN HAS MADE ANY PROGRESS: YOU ASK THEM IF ANYTHING OF VALUE TAKES PLACE IN THEIR MIND, AND IF THEY SAY, “YES”, THEN “PROGRESS” IS TO THEM,
AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY. (I SAY AGAIN, AIN’T IT NEAT? AND SO DOGGONE SIMPLE!