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AMONGST MYSTICS: TALKING ABOUT AWAKENING IS FUN,
BUT WHEN THE FUN IS OVER, IT’S TIME TO — GET TO WORK —
— TO THE SIMPLE, IMMEDIATE & EFFORTLESS WORK OF — AWAKENING.
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ALTHOUGH IT CAN APPEAR THAT MAN IS IN SOME SORT OF “PARTNERSHIP” WITH HIMSELF, (THAT IS THERE IS:HIM AND THEN THE THOUGHTS THAT HE HAS),,
TO BECOME CLEAR-HEADED YOU MUST TURN THIS APPARENT PARTNERSHIP INTO A:
“SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP”
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CONCENTRATION IS THE KEY: THE FLOW-OF-DREAMS, THE DOOR TO TO ENLIGHTENMENT TO BE UN-LOCKED.
NOTE: CONCENTRATION IS THE VERY OPPOSITE OF DREAMING:
WHILE DREAMING, YOU DO NOT SUFFICIENTLY FOCUS ON ANY ONE SUBJECT LONG ENOUGH
TO OBTAIN ANY PROFIT.
“OH,J DREAM OF JEANNIE WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HAIR.”….”OH, I DREAM OF ROBBERS WITH
GUNS IN THEIR HAND” “OH, I DREAM OF SICKNESS WHICH IS CALLING MY NAME.”….
…”OH, I DREAM THAT I’M WEALTHY: I DREAM OF MY FAME.”…. …”OH, I JUST DREAM ON, AND ON, AND ON, AND ON.”
“WITHOUT CONCENTRATION, DREAMS FILL MY HEAD, WHEN I’M NOT IN FOCUS, OH HOW I’M MIS-LEAD.”
JUST AS THERE ARE NO “GOOD” DREAMS,
THERE IS NO POSSIBLE PROFIT IN EVER BEING NON-CONCENTRATING.
THE.APPROACH TO AWAKENING IS SUCH A SIMPLE MATTER THAT IT CAN SEEM COMPLEX, BEYOND BELIEF.
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AND NOW FOR TONIGHT’S NOTATION OF THAT “DIRTY LITTLE SECRET” THAT IS RIGHT-OUT-IN-THE-OPEN: LIFE RUNS ITSELF —
NO MATTER WHAT THE WEAK, THE POWERFUL, THE LEARNED OR THE IGNORANT SAY:
LIFE RUNS ITSELF AND — “THAT’S CLOSED”, FOR THE OPEN HEADED.
AND NOW TONIGHT’S: “BUSINESS NEWS”: A MAN WITH A “PARTNER” CAN’T “CONCENTRATE”.
ADDITIONAL TIP: IF YOU ‘CAN’T BUY CHEAP….AND SELL DEAR” — DON’T BUY AT ALL.
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THROUGH THE CLEAR-HEADEDNESS OF, “STANDING STILL” — DREAMS EVAPORATE.
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OKAY: TONIGHT’S REAL, “INFLAMMATORY SECRET”:
PAST A CERTAIN PLACE IN YOUR JOURNEY, THE “STRUGGLE TO AWAKEN”
BECOMES A PART OF YOUR SLEEPING.
CAN YOU TIE THIS TO THE MATTER REGARDING A CERTAIN ILLNESS, WHOSE PRESENCE
IS NOT PHYSICALLY FELT,
BUT WHOSE TREATMENT CAUSES SEVERE DISCOMFORT.
(HERE[N IS WHERE METAPHORICAL CONCENTRATION CAN PAY OFF.)
…(OH YEAH: FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO REALLY WANT TO, “BE INFLAMED”,
RELATE ALL I’VE JUST MENTIONED TO THAT PREVIOUS STORY ABOUT A MYSTICAL MONASTERY WHO CONSIDERED ALL OF THE ATTENDING MONKS TO BE MERE NOVICES UNTIL THEY
REACHED THE POINT WHERE THEY WERE NOT AT ALL AS CERTAIN AS THEY WERE WHEN THEY BEGAN, WHETHER THEY WERE “ENLIGHTENED”, OR STILL LIVING IN DELUSION.
THROUGH THE CLEAR-HEADEDNES OF “STANDING STILL & QUIET” — ALL DOUBTS DISAPPEAR:,
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IN THE ROUTINE “MARKET-PLACE-OF-LIFE”: A MAN,NOT, “DOING ANY BUSINESS” IS A MAN AWAKE.
EVERYONE’S MIND DOES, “CONSTANT BUSINESS”, THAT IS: THE ORDINARY BELIEVES THAT IT SEES BUSINESS, EVERY WHERE BEING DONE, AND THAT IT SHOULD BE DOING BUSINESS ALSO, BUT ALL OF THE VARIOUS, BUSY, HUMAN ACTIVITY IT BELIEVES IT PERCEIVES
ARE NOTHING MORE THAN EXTERNAL SHADOWS CAST BY ITS OWN INTERNAL TURMOIL.
ALL YOU NEED DO IS, “CONCENTRATE…AND STAND REAL STILL & QUIET” — AND, “BINGO” THE JOB IS DONE!.
WHAT UN-ENLIGHTENED MYSTICS IMAGINE TO BE THE “SPECIAL TECHNIQUES” NECESSARY FOR AWAKENING,
ARE IN FACT,
THE SAME SORTS OF EVERYDAY OPERATIONS NEEDED JUST TO LIVE.
…(AND THE DATA JUST BECOMES MORE AND MORE ANNOYING AND IMPOSSIBLE TO SWALLOW….
….RIGHT?! WELL — GOOD-D-D!)
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DEFINITION TIME: “BY THE WORD, “CONCENTRATION”
I IN PART REFER TO: “THE SUSPENSION OF REACTING TO YOUR THOUGHTS.” — NOT A: “FOCUSING ON THEM”.
WHENEVER YOU ARE ABSORBED IN YOUR OWN DREAMING, THAT IS:
YOUR AWARENESS IS TOTALLY FOCUSED ON THE THOUGHTS PASSING THRU YOUR HEAD -YOU ARE NOT — “FOCUSED”, AS I PRESENTLY EMPLOY THE WORD.
THE “CONCENTRATION” I AM SPEAKING OF IS, (IN THE BEGINNING), THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT MEN ORDINARY DEFINE IT TO BE:
THEN IT ULTIMATELY BEGINS TO MERGE WITH ITS ROUTINE COUNTERPART–
THE LATER IS LIKE ITS CONTRARY ONCE AGAIN.
(IT’S KINDA LIKE THIS: YOU START OUT TRYING TO CONCENTRATE ON NOTHING:
THEN IT UNAVOIDABLY SLIPS INTO YOUR CONCENTRATING ON THE IDEA OF:
“NOT CONCENTRATING ON ANY ONE THING” — WHICH BECOMES THE SINGLE,
FOCAL POINT OF YOUR INSTANT ATTEMPT TO, “CONCENTRATE” —
— BUT IF YOU PUSH ON AND DO NOT LAY DOWN & NAP,
THIS “CONCENTRATION” WILL EVENTUALLY TURN BACK INTO WHAT IT AUTOMATICALLY WAS
WHEN YOU FIRST UNDERTOOK ITS PURSUIT: A BLANKNESS…AN EMPTINESS…
A “CONCENTRATION” THAT DEFIES ITS OWN DEFINITION: A “CONCENTRATION” ON — ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
(OTHERWISE KNOWN AS: “AWAKENED AWARENESS”.)
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IF, FOR THE MOMENT, YOU WANTED TO, YOU COULD LOOK UPON THE DREAMING IN YOUR HEAD AS
“A VIOLATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS”.
“HELP! — CALL THE ‘CONCENTRATION, BUNKO SQUAD”.”
AND NOW FOR SOME: “LEGAL INFO”: THE NAME OF THE FIRM IN THE FORE-FRONT OF DEFENDING
THE RIGHTS OF THOSE WHO WANT TO REMAIN, “CLUTTER-HEADED” IS: CAVIL & CARP.
(BY THE WAY: THEIR OFFICES ARE NOT FAR FROM WHERE YOU ARE….NOT FAR AT ALL !!)
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A MAN WITH A CERTAIN ILLNESS
WAS TOLD BY HIS FRIENDS
OF SO MANY DIFFERENT AVAILABLE TREATMENTS
THAT HE BECAME THOROUGHLY CONFUSED & UNCERTAIN AS TO WHAT COURSE TO TAKE:
NOT AT ALL UNLIKE THE WIDE MENU AVAILABLE OF SELF-PROCLAIMED, “MEANS TO AWAKEN”
WHEN ALL THAT IS NECESSARY IS TO — “NOT BE_SICK” — IT’S NOT EVEN NECESSARY TO:
“GET WELL” ALL THAT’S NEEDED, (OR IS POSSIBLE) IS TO: “NOT BE SICK TO BEGIN WITH”
THAT IS: NOT ACCEPT THE DREAM THAT YOU ARE.(SIMPLE ENOUGH PROPOSITION, WHAT?!)
IF YOUR THOUGHTS COULD BE MADE TO “REFLECT” THE EXTERNAL WORLD,
RATHER THAN, “DISTORT IT”,
THEN NONE WOULD BE ILL WITH THIS, “SICKNESS-OF-SLEEP”, ALONG WITH
THE INABILITY TO PROPERLY — CONCENTRATE.
BEING “MENTALLY UN-FOCUSED” IS THE BASIS OF ALL MENTAL MALADIES: DREAMING CARRIES YOU ALONG LIKE CANCER CELLS GOBBLING UP HEALTHY ONES.
ONE GUY HAD A SIMPLE MOTTO “DON’T DRIFT.”
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THERE WAS ONCE A MYSTICAL ORDER WHICH TAUGHT THAT IT WAS GOOD TO SLOW-DOWN, AND, MAKE-MORE-RHYTHMICAL, YOUR BREATHING
SO THAT IT RESEMBLED YOUR BREATHING AS IT IS WHEN YOU ARE ASLEEP AT NIGHT.
CHEW ON THAT ONE !! THINK ABOUT IT:
THEY ENCOURAGED A TECHNIQUE, DESIGNED TO MAKE ONE OF YOUR NORMAL FUNCTIONS BEHAVE AS IT DOES WHEN YOU ARE PHYSICALLY ASLEEP, AND CLAIM THAT IT IS TO
FOSTER, METAPHYSICAL “AWAKENING” HOW ABSURD —
IS THIS UNBELIEVABLE & RIDICULOUS OR WHAT? MAYBE NOT:
WHAT IF THE PURPOSE WAS TO PRODUCE IN YOU A CONSTANT AWARENESS OF YOUR,
DAY-TIME, OPEN-EYED “DREAMING” BASED ON A COMPARISON TO THE FACT THAT WHEN YOU’RE SHUT-EYED, ASLEEP AT NIGHT AND DREAMING, YOU’RE AWARE OF THE FACT THAT IT IS ALL, “SIMPLY DREAMING”, AND THAT YOU CAN-BE AND SHOULD-BE
LIKEWISE COGNIZANT DURING THE OUT-OF-BED HOURS.
COULD IT NOT BE QUITE PROFITABLE TO DUPLICATE YOUR NIGHT-TIME SLEEPING AWARENESS
THAT YOUR DREAMING IS JUST DREAMING IN YOUR DAY TIME CONSCIOUSNESS?!
(YOU DAMN WELL CAN “SMELL “THE CORRECT ANSWER TO THAT ONE, RIGHT?!)
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AND FINALLY: THIS QUERY:
HOW CAN YOU TELL THAT YOU ARE FINALLY BEGINNING TO “UNDERSTAND” WHAT ENLIGHTENMENT REALLY IS?
ANSWER: WHEN — “THINGS INSANE”
MAKE JUST AS MUCH SENSE AS ANYTHING ELSE.
WELCOME HOME —
WELCOME BACK FROM WHERE YOU “DREAMED” THAT YOU BELONGED.
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