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ONE MAN HAD MANY SYMPTOMS — NO DEFINABLE ILLNESS — BUT: MANY SYMPTOMS. HE DECIDED TO CALL HIS CONDITION: “BEING ASLEEP”.
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IF YOUR NATURAL TEMPERAMENT IS “IRRITABLE”, THEN YOU WILL IRRITATE YOURSELF. (AND WITH THE SPOOKILY INCLINED, THIS CAN RESULT IN WANTING TO BE ENLIGHTENED.)
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ONE MAN STUDIED “WORD ORIGINS”…AND FOUND THAT THERE WERE NONE. ..(NOW GO WORK ON THOUGHTS.)
IF YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU KNOW THE BEGINNINGS OF A THING,
YOU WELL THEN FOREVER BE SADDLED-WITH, AND AFFLICTED-BY ITS LACK OF CONCLUSION.
RULE: “ALWAYS LOOK AT THE MIDDLE.”, (THERE’S NOTHING ACTUALLY TO BE LEARNED THERE, BUT AT LEAST IT WELL CUT DOWN ON THE TIME YOU WOULD WASTE
MUCKING ABOUT WITH “IMAGINARY BEGINNINGS” AND NON-EXISTENT ENDINGS.)
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IF YOUR HAD IS NOT “EMPTY”, NEITHER IS THE UNIVERSE,
AND WHEN YOUR MEND IS NOT “VAST”, IT IS NEVER LARGE ENOUGH FOR EVERYTHING.
…AND A BOY SAID TO HIS FATHER: “WHAT DOES IT MEAN: “NOT LARGE ENOUGH FOR EVERYTHING’? — I THOUGHT THE UNIVERSE WAS EMPTY OF ANYTHING?!”,
“RIGHT SO, MY BOY.”, THE ELDER REPLIED: “BUT WITHOUT YOUR OWN HEAD BEING: ‘VAST & EMPTY’, ALL OF THE THINGS MEN NORMALLY THINK ABOUT DO SEEM TO EXIST’, AND IN SUCH CONFUSING ABUNDANCE AS TO TOTALLY OVERWHELM AN ORDINARY MAN’S ABILITY TO EVER PLAINLY SEE THE REALITY OF WHAT LIFE IS ABOUT.”
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ONE MAN OPERATING DICTUM IN ONE AREA IS:
“IF IT INTERESTS YOU — THEN IT DOESN’T INTEREST ME.”
FACT:
JUST WANTING TO “AWAKEN” IS NO EXCUSE FOR — “BEING ASLEEP”
… (IT MAY BE UN-FAIR BUT AT LEAST IT’S HARD.)
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THERE ARE TWO DIVISIONS OF PEOPLE WHO STRUGGLE TO AWAKEN:
THOSE WHO FOREVER, “STRUGGLE-TO-AWAKEN”,
AND THOSE WHO SUCCEED SUFFICIENTLY TO REALIZE THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING.
…OH, THERE’S CERTAINLY THE WORD, AND THE IDEA BEHIND IT,
BUT AS FAR AS THERE BEING AN ACTUAL SOMETHING — “AWAKENING” — NO,
IT DOESN’T ANY MORE EXIST THAN DO YOUR REMINISCENCES OF YESTERDAY.
…AND A LAD ASKED HIS DAD: “WERE IT NOT FOR,’MEMORY’,
WOULD MEN BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE ENLIGHTENMENT?”,
AND THE OLD MAN REPLIED BY HIMSELF ASKING:
“BETTER QUESTION IS:
WERE IT NOT FOR MEMORY, WOULD MEN HAVE THE DESIRE TO BE ENLIGHTENED?!”
…TO BE ABLE TO ADEQUATELY ANSWER THAT ONE
YOUR HEAD MUST BE SO VAST & EMPTY THAT YOU CAN LOOK BETWEEN YOUR FEET
TOWARD THE BOTTOM OF THE MIND,
AND FINALLY SEE THAT THERE IS NO BOTTOM, NO BASIS, NO FOUNDATION FOR
WHAT GOES ON INSIDE A MAN’S HEAD:
THERE ARE ONLY DREAMS, SHIPPED IN FROM AFAR,
WHICH ARE PROJECTED ONTO THE SCREEN OF THE MIND:
ALWAYS NOISY, ALWAYS IN MOTION, AND FOREVER, SIGNIFYING NOTHING.
LISTEN TO YOUR NATURE — NOT THE CHATTER OF YOUR HEAD,
AND SOMEONE IMMEDIATELY OBJECTS THAT: “OUR NATURE IS SILENT —
HOW CAN WE, ‘LISTEN TO IT’?”,
THAT’S SIMPLE: JUST QUIET THE CHATTER IN YOUR HEAD.
IF YOU WANT TO TEMPORARILY LOOK AT IT IN THIS MANNER, THEN DO SO:
ALLOW BUT ONE THOUGHT INTO YOUR MIND, (AND THAT IS):
“MY HEAD IS VAST AND EMPTY,
AND I HAVE NO ROOM THEREIN FOR DREAMS.”
MYSTICAL RULE: EVERYONE CAN “WAKE UP” IN INDIA. :RULE # 2: EVERYONE MAY AWAKEN EVENTUALLY.
RULE # 3: THE FIRST TWO RULES ARE TOTALLY MISLEADING OX DROPPINGS
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THE ORDINARY NATURALLY SEEK-OUT, AND THRIVE-BEST AMIDST THE CHATTER OF OTHERS:
THOSE BELIEVING THEY SEEK TO AWAKEN, ARE COMMONLY GIVEN TO SOME FORM OF
“WITHDRAWAL”, (EITHER LITERALLY OR FIGURATIVELY), FROM THE MASS CACOPHONY,
AND DWELL PRIMARILY AMIDST THE PRIVATE CHATTER OF THEIR OWN HEAD:
UNDER SAID CONDITIONS IS WHERE MOST WOULD BE MYSTICS BELIEVE THEY STRUGGLE
PROPERLY FOR AWAKENING, BUT I MUST POINT OUT TO YOU THAT:
SOME PLACE BEYOND THE POINT OF BEING BUT A “WOULD-BE-WAKER-UPPER”,
YOU MUST RECOGNIZE THAT NO CHATTER OF ANY TYPE —
— BE IT PUBLIC AND COMMONLY ACCEPTED,
OR: PRIVATE AND SINGULAR WITH YOU —
NO CHATTER HAS ANY CONNECTION WHATSOEVER WITH THE INDESCRIBABLE,
UNKNOWABLE REALITY OF, “BEING AWAKE”,
FOR WHEN YOU ARE SO — IN WHAT CONDITION ISTHE SOUND-ROOM-OF-YOUR-HEAD”,
BUT: “EMPTY AND TOTALLY SILENT”?!
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IF YOUR NATURAL DISPOSITION IS ONE OF “ANNOYANCE”,
THEN YOU, (WHATEVER THE YOU LISTENING TO ME BELIEVES THAT YOUR “YOU” IS),
THEN YOU WILL BE CONTINUALLY “ANNOYED WITH” YOURSELF,
…(AND AMONG THOSE INCLINED TO MATTERS EXOTIC,
THIS CAN LEAD TO YOU WANTING TO BE “ENLIGHTENED”,
AND THUS RELIEVED OF YOUR “ANNOYANCE” TOWARD YOURSELF.
…KID INURED OF HIS PA PA: “THE MORE I LISTEN TO YOU, OLD MAN, THE LESS CERTAIN I AM AS TO WHETHER I AM BECOMING MORE CONFUSED ABOUT THIS, OR WHETHER I AM IN FACT
BEGINNING TO SEE IT MORE CLEARLY: SO LET ME ASK YOU POINT BLANK: IF WE DO NOT HAVE
AN ACTUAL ‘SELF”, THEN WHAT IS IT THAT THOSE STRUGGLING TO “AWAKEN” THEMSELVES
ARE ACTUALLY UP TO?” — “AHH!”, SIGHED THE ELDER [N OBVIOUS PLEASURE,
“TO EVER ANSWER THAT, YOU MUST — ‘BE AWAKE’!”
…(AND AFTER THE YOUNGER PONDERED ON THIS FOR A WHILE, HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF:
“HOW UN-FAIR!…HOW: GROSSLY, UN-FAIR’ AND”, HE SUDDENLY GIGGLED,
“HOW DELIGHTFULLY APPROPRIATE TO THE ENTIRE EPISODE OF — ‘AWAKENING’.”
FACT: ONLY POMEGRANATE FARMERS KNOW EXACTLY HOW POMEGRANATES TASTE…AND ONLY . THEY WOULD BE THE ONES TO KNOW IF :[N FACT, POMEGRANATES WERE PRETTY TASTELESS…. BUT THAT WOULD STILL BE IRRELEVANT TO THE FACT OF THEM BEING: “FARMERS OF
POMEGRANATES”