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WHEN ONE MAN HEARD POLITICS DESCRIBED AS, “SHODDY”, & RELIGIONS AS, “DECEPTIVE”, AND THE POPULAR ARTS AS, “VACUOUS; AND MEANINGLESS”‘,-HE SAID TO HIMSELF
“WHAT A TERRIBLE WASTE OF PERFECTLY GOOD MODIFIERS.
THERE’S NO NECESSITY TO APPLY TO ANY OF MAN’S CONTRIVANCES, “NEGATIVE QUALIFIERS”: TO AN ALERT EYE, IT ALL “GOES WITHOUT SAYING”:
IT ALL COMES AS A “PRE-PACKAGED BUNDLE”
IF IT IS A PRODUCT OF MAN’S MIND THERE IS NO NEED FOR VERBAL ELABORATION THEREON
BEYOND THE MINIMUM OF SIMPLY: “SAYING WHAT IT IS”.
JUST, SAY WHAT IT IS AS SIMPLY & BRIEFLY AS POSSIBLE,
FOR IN SO DOING YOU WILL ALLOW FOR THE LEAST POSSIBLE COLLATERAL DAMAGE TO YOUR INTELLIGENCE AND=PROFITABLE PERCEPTIONS.
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NONE OF THE CAPTIVATING AND ENTERTAINING INVENTIONS THAT FLOW FROM MAN’S MIND, (SUCH AS LITERATURE, MYTHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, MUSIC, ETC.), CAN, IN ANY OBJECTIVE MANNER, “CONCEIVE OF THEMSELVES”:
FURTHERMORE: ALL CRITICISM OF THINGS, “MAN MADE” ARE BUT SHADOWS PASSING JUDGEMENT OF REFLECTIONS: MIRAGES ATTEMPTING APPRAISALS OF OPTICAL ILLUSIONS.
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ANY MAN WHO BELIEVES HIS VIEW OF ANYTHING TO BE SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER VIEW IS BEYOND THE NEED TO BE PROFESSIONALLY DIAGNOSED AS BEING, “A FOOL”.
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IF, AS REGARDS THE ROUTINE: TRIALS, IRRITANTS & TRIBULATIONS THAT BEFALL ALL MEN, YOU REBEL AND REJECT THEM AS BEING, “Unsuitable,UNACCEPTABLE TO YOUR”TEMPERAMENT” KNOW THIS: IT IS NOT YOUR TEMPERAMENT SPEAKING — BUT YOUR “MIND”:
AND MOREOVER, REMEMBER THIS: OVER YOUR TEMPERAMENT, YOU HAVE NO CONTROL,
BUT OVER YOUR MIND — NOW THAT IS A DUCK OF A DIFFERENT COLOR
IF WE WERE, (FOR A MOMENT), TO EMPLOY A RELIGIOUS VIEW OF A CERTAIN MATTER, THIS COULD BE CONCLUDED: “THE ONLY ASPECT OF MORTAL LIFE OVER WHICH THE GODS HAVE GIVEN US POWER IS — THE MIND.
NOW JUST PONDER! ‘HOW THIS POWER
WE DO SQUANDER.
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IN THAT, UNDER ORDINARY WORKING CONDITIONS,
MAN’S MUNDANE MENTAL FACILITIES ARE NOT WIRED TO_DIRECTLY GRASP PHYSICAL REALITY,
BUT RATHER ARE PROGRAMMED TO DEAL WITH BUT THE “APPEARANCES OF THINGS”,
NOTE SHOULD BE MADE OF THE FACT THAT THESE “APPEARANCES”
WHICH STAND IN FOR REALITY,
ARE ALWAYS “EMOTIONAL IN TENOR & TASTE” — AND: NEEDLESSLY, EMOTIONAL.
APROPOS THE JUST NOTED: FROM ONE PERSPECTIVE THE FULL, USE-FUL, “USE-OF-THE-MIND COULD BE DESCRIBED AS BEING:
“THE INDIVIDUAL, PRACTICAL MANIPULATION OF THE, “MENTAL APPEARANCES OF THINGS”
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THE CORE OF BEING ENLIGHTENED COULD BE EXPRESSED AS BEING:
“TOTALLY COMMITTED TO — DUTY.”,
UNDERSTANDING HEREIN THAT “DUTY” IS THE PRIVATE, INNER DUTY A KNOWLEDGEABLE MAN
RECOGNIZES AS BEING THE DUTY TO BE ONLY – HIMSELF — WHAT HE TRULY IS —
— NOT WHAT HE “APPEARS — AND, SEEMS TO BE” IN HIS OWN MIND.
THE FAITHFUL & RELENTLESS EXERCISE OF THIS PRIVATE DUTY IS NO LESS THAN — THE ENLIGHTENED STATE ITSELF.
IF YOU LOOK DEEPLY INTO WHAT WAS JUST SAID, YOU REALIZE: “HOW COULD IT NOT BE?!”
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ONE MAN’S PRIVATE MOTTO REMINDED HIM: “DO NOT BE A HINDRANCE TO — YOURSELF.”, WHICH HAPPENS WHENEVER YOU TRY TO EXERCISE CONTROL OVER THOSE ASPECTS OF LIFE OVER WHICH NO CONTROL IS POSSIBLE,
ALL THE WHILE IGNORING THE ONE FACTION OF YOUR EXISTENCE OVER WHICH YOU CAN
REALIZE SOME CARE AND CONTROL YOUR MIND.
BEING “BLIND-TO-THE-REALITY-OF-THE-MIND” IS THE MYSTIC’S SUPREME “HINDRANCE” …(THANKFULLY THOUGH — NOT NECESSARILY FATAL ONE.)
AND BEYOND THE EVERYDAY ATTENTION HE GAVE TO HIS PHYSICAL HYGIENE, 16124 0
ONE MAN HELD TO THIS DIRECTIVE: “FROM THE NECK UP — CLEAN UP.”
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ALTHOUGH WHAT IS THOUGHT-OF AS CONSTITUTING MAN’S SINGULAR, CIVILIZED REALM, (SUCH AS THAT OF ART, RELIGION, POLITICS, AND SO ON),
ARE OF=”SECONDARY”IMPORTANCE COMPARED TO THE ACTIVITIES NECESSARY FOR SURVIVAL, (WHICH ARE OF “PRIMARY” IMPORTANCE);
THE FORMER ARE STILL INCREASINGLY REQUIRED FOR A MAN TO LIVE A NORMAL,
PRIMARY EXISTENCE.
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WHILE ALL TALK REGARDING LIFE IS OF NO SIGNIFICANCE
AMONG BOTH THE ORDINARY AND THE ENLIGHTENED,
AT LEAST IN THE LATER’S CASE,
TALK IS USUALLY ABOUT LITTLE MORE THAN THE
TOTAL INSIGNIFICANCE OF TALK.
AND A BOY ASKED HIS FATHER:
“ARE THE WORDS OF THE AWAKENED JUST AS MUCH BULLSHIT AS EVERYONE ELSE’S?”,
AND THE ELDER REPLIED: “DELIGHTED TO SAY — EVEN MORE SO,.ME BOY….EVEN MORE SO.”
SURE SIGN OF A CLOUDY HEAD IS PRESENT IN PEOPLE WHO USE THEMSELVES — THEIR LIFE AS AN EXAMPLE OF “THIS-OR-THAT”
WHEREAS A CLEAR HEADED MAN WHO “KNOWS-THE-MIND”, AND THUS THE REALITY OF WHAT BOTH HE AND WHAT OCCURS IN LIFE AMOUNTS TO,
WOULD NEVER SPEAK IN SUCH A FASHION….SHOULD HE FOR SOME REASON – SPEAK.
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PAST A CERTAIN POINT: THE WISH TO AWAKEN BECOMES LIKE THE “TEETH-OF-A-SHARK”: IF YOU KEEP LOOKING INTO ITS MOUTH, YOU FIND THERE IS NO END TO THE APPEARANCE AND RE-APPEARANCE, AND RE-RE-APPEARANCES OF ITS CHOPPERS.
RELATED HAT TRICK: ENLIGHTENMENT IS TO MYSTICS AS “GOD” IS TO THE RELIGIOUS, AND AWAKENING LIKE, “LIFE-AFTER-DEATH”
(AND THE AD FOR REINCARNATION NOTED: “JUST KEEP STARING INTO THE BEAST’S MOUTH AND YOU WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF NEW TEETH TO DISCOVER.”, (OF COURSE THE AD DOESN’T POINT OUT THAT THE ENDLESS REPLACEMENT OF A SHARK’S MOLARS IS NATURAL AND INEVITABLE, WHILE THE MENTAL NOTE-TAKING THEREOF, IS NOT.)
A BOY INQUIRED OF HIS MASCULINE SIDE PROGENITOR THE FOLLOWING: “IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ANIMALS ARE SMARTER THAN WE ARE?” — “NO.”, REPLIED THE LOIN-SEEDER, “BUT, AT CERTAIN TIMES, (COMPARED TO US), THEY CAN BE — ‘LESS STUPID’.”
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A CERTAIN EMPLOYEE OBJECTED TO A PARTICULAR TASK DEMANDED BY HIS EMPLOYER,
PROTESTING THAT IT WAS, “BENEATH HIM…OFFENSIVE” EVEN TO HIS ESSENCE,
TO WHICH THE EMPLOYER REPLIED:
“BUT WOULD NOT, “DOING THE JOB” AND RECEIVING YOUR PAY THEREFROM
BE MORE AGREEABLE THAN NOT BEING PAID?!”,
AND THE EMPLOYEE IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED, (AT ANOTHER LEVEL ENTIRELY)
THE TRUTH OF WHAT WAS EARLIER NOTED HERE REGARDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
A MAN’S: INTRACTABLE TEMPERAMENT — AND HIS CONTROLLABLE “MENTAL-WORLD-OF-DREAMS”
MAY I BRING UP THE MATTER AGAIN:
THERE IS IN THE LIVES OF US HUMAN,
BUT ONE AREA AND ONE AREA ONLY
OVER WHICH WE CAN EXERT ANY MEANINGFUL & PROFITABLE CARE, CONTROL, OR FREEDOM,
(AND THAT IS) CONCERNING — THE MIND.
WE AS HUMANS CAN ONLY — AND ACTUALLY, “CARE-FOR AND SEE-TO” — ONE THING,
BUT WE ARE CONTINUALLY DISTRACTED BY THE MAGNETIC ATTRACTION OF — “THE MANY THINGS …THE ETERNALLY — MEANINGLESS, “MANY THINGS”.
IT IS AN ALERT MAN’S PRIVATE DUTY TO SEE THAT THOSE_THINGS WITHIN HIM THAT CAN BE, “SEEN-TO” — ARE, “SEEN-TO”
AND EVERYTHING ELSE, IGNORED.
WHY NOT REMEMBER THIS?’ (YEAH — WHY NOT?!):
ANYTHING THAT HE MIND COMES UP WITH — HEY!, IT JUST — “CAME UP WITH”!
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MEN DO NOT DREAM DREAMS — THEY DREAM ENZYMES, HORMONES AND IONS: LIKE WISE, NEITHER DO THEY THINK “THOUGHTS”.
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AND AS REGARDS THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING ABLE TO USE THINKING IN ANY WAY THAT MIGHT BE BENEFICIAL TO AWAKENING:INSTEAD OF,(AS EVERYONE ELSE DOES), THINKING ABOUT “THINGS & STUFF”, THINK ONLY ABOUT THE FACT OF YOU BEING ALIVE — AND,
BEING ABLE TO “THINK ABOUT” — BEING ALIVE.
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A MYSTIC WHO’D JUST GIVEN A PUBLIC LECTURE CONCERNING THE
MANIFESTATIONS AND MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND,
WAS APPROACHED BY SOMEONE FROM THE AUDIENCE WHO SAID TO HIM:
“I WANT TO COMPLIMENT YOU UPON THE CLARITY WITH WHICH
YOU MADE THE POINT REGARDING HOW ALL TALK IS ‘MEANINGLESS’.”,
(AND THE SPEAKER SMILED IN APPRECIATION OF THE COMMENT),
BUT THE COMMENTER CONTINUED:
“I WAS ALSO STRUCK BY THE PASSIONATE CERTAINTY WITH WHICH YOU MADE THE POINT.”,
AND WITH THAT, THE LECTURER’S FACE FELL INSTANTLY INTO A PICTURE OF DEJECTION.
FACT: THE RECOGNITION OF, “SELF-DECEPTION”
CAN RESULT IN
A NON FATAL FORM OF TEMPORARY DEJECTION.
“HEY”, NOTED SOME OTHER VOICE,
“THE ‘TRUTH’ WILL NOT ONLY ‘SET-YOU-FREE’,
BUT IT CAN ALSO BE MOMENTARILY — DOWN RIGHT EMBARRASSING.”
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A BOY SO SAID TO HIS FATHER:
“SO — IF IT BE TRUE — THAT:
FOR-THE-FEW
THE MATTER OF ENLIGHTENMENT IS THE ONLY SERIOUS THING IN THE LIFE,
THEN HOW CAN THEY SOME TIMES SPEAK OF IT SO LIGHTLY?”,
AND THE OLD MAN SMILED AND VIGOROUSLY NODDED HIS AGREEMENT.
FACT: ONE OF THE GHASTLY GREAT BENEFITS OF BECOMING”CLEAR-OF-MIND” IS THAT YOU THEN THOROUGHLY UNDERSTAND EVERYONE ELSE’S — “STATES-OF-MIND”
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AND NOW ANOTHER IN OUR ON-GOING SERIES ENTITLED: “QUESTIONS THAT ARE NEVER ASKED”: QUESTION: WHY IS ALL GOSSIP ALWAYS ONLY ABOUT MATTERS, “EXTERNAL”?’
AFTER THEY’D HEARD A PUBLIC UTTERANCE OF THE OLD ADAGE: “46 (6;
“LIFE IS WHAT YOU THINK IT IS.”, ONE MAN CAUTIONED HIS DAUGHTER: “NOT SO: LIFE IS – “WHAT IT IS”,
WHAT YOU THINK LIFE IS
IS MERELY WHAT YOU THINK IT TO BE. A SEVERE & TELLING DISTINCTION,MY DEAR.”
AND REGARDING A CONVERSATION THEY’D PREVIOUSLY HAD, A LAD SAID TO HIS DAD:
“YOU RECENTLY SAID TO ME THAT A SIGN OF AN AWAKENED MAN WOULD BE IF HE COULD
VISIT THE GRAVE OF A LOVED ONE AND NOT TALK TO THEM —
AND_THAT GOT ME TO A’PONDERIN’:
SHOULD THIS ALSO APPLY TO US CONVERSING WITH THAT ASPECT OF OUR MIND THAT
BY NOW SHOULD BE — DECEASED?”,
AND THE OLD MAN PUNCHED HIM ENTHUSIASTICALLY IN THE NOSE
SUFFICIENTLY HARD TO DRAW BLOOD
WHICH WAS THEIR FAMILY WAY OF REPLYING TO A QUESTION IN THE AFFIRMATIVE,
WHILE HE LOUDLY & HAPPILY EXCLAIMED:
“HOT DAMN, BOY! — YOU’RE STARTIN” TO CATCH RIGHT ON —
— HOT DAMN, AND — WHO-0-0 WEE !!”
ONE GUY WAS ASKED: “ARE YOU A THEOSOPHISTS?”, “NO.”, HE REPLIED, “ARE YOU A ZENIST “NO.”, HE ANSWERED, “THEN ARE YOU A CABALIST?”, “NOPE”. HE RESPONDED, “SO, ARE YOU A SUFIST?”, NOPE AGAIN,”, HE ANSWERED, “THEN WHAT ARE YOU?”, HE WAS ASKED, AND HE SAID: “I AM A – “SEE THRU IT ALL-IST”.”