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IN RE: “THE TRUTH”: THERE ARE TWO FORMS OF, “THE TRUTH”:
THE”TRUTH-OF-THE-M[ND” & THE “TRUTH-OF-THE-TRUTH”: THE FORMER IS WHAT EVERYONE INDIVIDUALLY TAKES TO BE THE TRUTH,
WHILE THE LATTER FORM IS THE TRUTH OF REALITY — OF “HOW THINGS ARE”,
AND IS GRASPED BUT BY THE FEW, AND WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PERCEIVED, “INDIVIDUAL TRUTHS” THAT EXIST IN MENS’ THOUGHTS.
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LISTENING-TO, OR READING-ABOUT WHAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO SAY ABOUT “AWAKENING” IS USEFUL ONLY IF THEIR WORDS CAN TEMPORARY, “SLICE-OFF-YOUR-TONGUE”, AND MOMENTARILY, “SET-YOUR-HEAD-ON-FIRE”.
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THE “TRUTH-OF-THE-MIND” MUST BE DESCRIBED, TO EXIST:
WHILE THE “TRUTH-OF-THE-TRUTH” EVAPORATES IS SUBJECTED TO SUCH.
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NO IDEAS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE KNOWLEDGE THAT MAKES UP YOUR, “TRUTHS-OF-THE-MIND” ARE WORTHWHILE OR MEANINGFUL IN ANY WAY:
THUS, BE ALL OF THE ENLIGHTENED, “SELF-EDUCATED, (WHICH [N THEIR CASE CONSISTS OF, THE TOTAL CLEANING OUT OF THEIR MIND.)
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AREN’T YOU STILL “TAKEN BY” THE FACT THAT
EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE WORLD KNOWS MORE THAN DO THE ENLIGHTENED?!
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IF, (AS WIDELY CLAIMED BY THE SPIRITUALLY & POETICALLY INCLINED), MAN HAD A “HEART” THEN A CERTAIN PROGRESSION WOULD PROCEED THUSLY:
THE MIND WOULD BE FED BY THE HEART, AND THE HEART WOULD BE FED BY THE STOMACH. AT THE BOTTOM OF EVERYTHING, (INCLUDING MAN’S MENTAL WORLD), IS — FOOD,
AND THE TRICK TO CLEAR-PIGHEADEDNESS IS TO BREAK UP THIS INTERNAL FOOD CHAIN,
SO THAT YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT ULTIMATELY DEPENDENT ON THE SPECIOUS NOURISHMENT OF THRICE-DIGESTED MEAN & POTATOES, (KNOWN AT THAT END OF THE CHAIN AS: THOUGHTS, [AND. EVEN BETTER KNOWN TO US AS:”DREAMS & THEIR CONCURRENT FUMES”.
AMONG THE RELIGIOUS MYSTICS IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THERE IS A “DIVINE MEDITATION” THAT DIFFERS FROM THE NOVICE’S “MUNDANE MEDITATION, (AS ATTEMPTED THRU SUCH MEANS AS, PRAYER) IN THAT THE LATTER IS “ACTIVE” WHILE THE FORMER IS, “PASSIVE”, SO EVEN THEY HAD A VAGUE GRASP OF THE FACT THAT EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN & MUST, “STRUGGLE”, (THAT IS, BE “ACTIVE”) IN YOUR PURSUIT OF THE GREAT GOAL,,
THE STATE ITSELF, (WHEN IT COMES), SIMPLY “FALLS ON YOU”,
AND FOR ALL THAT IT’S WORTH DESCRIBING, YOUR PART IN THE EXPERIENCE IS “PASSIVE”. CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TO BE BUT ANOTHER WAY OF NOTING THAT YOU MUST ULTIMATELY “RE-FINE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT”,
AND ABANDON AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, ALL MEANINGLESS EFFORT —
— AND THE “ULTIMATE-OF-THE-ULTIMATE” BEING THE ABANDONMENT OF YOUR USELESS, THINKING ABOUT THE MATTER.
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A BOY ASKED HIS FATHER: “EVEN THOUGH YOU CONTINUALLY TELL ME THAT
NOTHING THAT CAN BE SAID HAS ANYTHING REALLY TO DO WITH BECOME CLEAR-HEADED, THEN HOW IS IT THAT I OFTEN FEEL ENLIGHTENED & ENCOURAGED BY YOUR WORDS?!”, AND THE ELDER REPLIED: “BECAUSE I CONTINUALLY ‘REFRESH’ WHAT I SAY TO YOU — FOREVER CHANGING THE WORDS THAT CLOTH THAT UNKNOWN TO WHICH I DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION.
THIS,(LET ME NOTE), IS THE SAME THAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING REGARDING YOUR OWN MENTAL ACTIVITY, (SUCH AS IT STILL BE).”
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BEING CLEAR-HEADED & ENLIGHTENED IS LIKE BEING A MAN WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO SPEAK WHO SUDDENLY HAS THE REALIZATION THAT THERE IS NOTHING WORTHY OF BEING SAID, BUT WHO CANNOT TELL ANYONE OF HIS DISCOVERY.
WHAT A THOROUGHLY, GRAND, GLORIOUS & UP-LIFTING THING TO HAPPEN TO A MAN !!
YOU THEN, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YOUR LIFE, ACTUALLY — “KNOW SOMETHING”! -BUT IT IS KNOWN TO YOU ALONE.
AND MORE NOTATION VIS A VIS THE VIEW OF THOSE RELIGIOUSLY INCLINED IN THEIR ILL-DESCRIBED & CONCEIVED EFFORTS WHICH UNWITTING, IN A SIMPLISTIC FASHION, PARALLEL OUR OWN:
WE SPEAK OF “STRUGGLING TO AWAKEN”
WHILE THEY SPEAK OF IT AS: “GOD RELENTLESSLY STRIVING TO ‘APPROACH-US’!”, AND THAT IT IS ONLY OUR “HUMAN WILL” THAT KEEPS HIS PRESENCE FROM US, EVEN AS HE CONTINUALLY TRIES TO “COME TO US”.
SO — ONCE AGAIN WOULD YOU CARE TO CONSIDER THAT THE MYSTICALLY INCLINED MAY,
FOR SOME STRETCH OF TIME,
HAVE AN APPROACH TO THE GOAL THAT COULD BE EVENTUALLY SEEN AS SOMEHOW, “BACKWARDS”
— THAT THE STATE OF ENLIGHTENMENT & CLEAR-HEADEDNESS IS IN FACT, STRUGGLING TO,
— “GET TO-US”
WITH THERE NOT ACTUALLY BE ANY NEED FOR US TO BE SEEKING IT,
(BE IT CALLED, “GOD”, OR “ENLIGHTENMENT”)
ALSO: SOME OF THE ANCIENT RELIGIOUS-STYLED MYSTICS HAVE GONE ON TO SAYS THAT THE, “TWO SPIRITS”, (THAT OF MAN & THAT OF GOD),
CONTINUALLY CONFRONT ONE ANOTHER — AND, SHINE ON ONE ANOTHER,
FOREVER ENCOURAGING THE UNION OF MAN’S & GOD’S SPIRIT — THE AWAKENING.
SO — YOU COULD THEN,(FOR A MOMENT), CONSIDER THE SITUATION THUSLY:
THAT WHAT WE CALL THE 2 STATES OF” SLEEP AND AWAKENING”,
(AS FAR REMOVED FROM ONE ANOTHER AS MYSTICS NORMALLY CLAIM),
ARE ACTUALLY QUITE AWARE OF EACH OTHER,
AND ARE CONSTANTLY IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO ONE ANOTHER,
AND INDEED, EACH EASILY SHOWS ITS FACE TO THE OTHER WHICH MAKES THEM EACH,
LONG FOR THE OTHER — SOMEHOW KNOWING INSTINCTIVELY,
THE DELIGHT WHICH WILL RESULT FROM THEIR UNION.
LOOK AT THE MATTER DIRECTLY & PLAINLY: WHAT IS THE EXOTIC, “MYSTICAL LONGING TO AWAKEN” OTHER THAN A MOST DEEP DESIRE FOR PERSONAL, “UNIFICATION”?!
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WHAT IF WE IMAGINED, (FOR INSTANCE), THAT THE EXTERNAL WORLD-OF-EVENTS MOVES, “.HORIZONTALLY”, & THAT YOUR INNER WORLD-OF-DREAMS-&-STATES RUNS VERTICALLY — THEN — “ENLIGHTENMENT” WOULD BE SOMETHING OPERATING “PERPENDICULAR”
TO THE WORLD OF DREAMS. DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE TO YOU7 WELL, DOES IT?!
ONE GUY SAID TO HIMSELF:
“IF A DUMB OLE THERMOS BOTTLE KNOWS WHETHER TO KEEP SOMETHING HOT,
OR TO KEEP IT COLD,
THEN WHY CAN’T I BE MORE CERTAIN AS TO WHETHER I AM ENLIGHTENED OR NOT?!” (NOT THE SORT OF QUESTION YOU’D WANT TO DWELL ON, HUH?!)
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WHAT IN OLDEN DAYS WAS CALLED: “THE APPEARANCE OF: THE GREAT FUNCTION”,
I NOW CALL: “THE CLEARING OF ONE’S HEAD WHEREBY CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT DEPENDENT ON DREAMING.” —
AND WHAT THE PAST ONES REFEREED TO AS:” THE MYSTICAL ABILITY TO: “PASS BEYOND ONESELF, I REFER TO AS:
“THE FREEING OF ONE’S SELF FROM THE BINDING, BLINDING ILLUSION THAT THERE IS A SELF — OUT-SIDE-OF
ONE’S DREAMING.
WHEN FINALLY — “IT IS ALL SAID & DONE” — WHAT YOU WILL FIND IS THAT: “IT WAS ALWAYS: ‘ALL-SAID-AND-DONE’ — THAT THE JOB YOU UNDERTOOK WAS COMPLETED BEFORE YOU BEGAN,
AND THAT EVERYTHING YOU HAVE LEARNED, GAINED & ACHIEVED ALONG THE WAY CAN NOW BE IGNORED & ABANDONED.
NOW WHEN THIS IS YOUR OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
IT IS TRULY TRUE THAT: “IT HAS ALL BEEN SAID & DONE,
AND TO NO AVAIL WHATSOEVER….OTHER THAN FOR THE FACT THAT IT ALL: “HAD TO BE SAID & DONE”.
WHEW! — WHAT A GRAND & GLORIOUS RELIEF TO FINALLY BE — EMPTY OF ME.