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A BOY ASKED HIS FATHER: “IF YOU CAN, ‘THINK TOO MUCH’,
THEN CAN YOU ALSO, ‘FEEL TOO MUCH’?”, AND THE ELDER REPLIED:
“NO, BUT YOU CAN – “THINK-ABOUT-FEELINGS’ EXCESSIVELY.”, AND THE LAD INQUIRED:
“AND HOW MUCH IS, ‘EXCESSIVELY’?”, TO WHICH THE FATHER RESPONDED:
“HOW ABOUT – ‘ANY’?!”
THIS SCENE REFLECTS THE VIEW OF A PAST MYSTICAL SCHOOL WHICH TAUGHT THAT:
“IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK, BUT — HOW YOU FEEL — AND,
NOT REALLY SO MUCH, ‘HOW YOU FEEL’ AS IT AS: WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT, ‘HOW YOU FEEL'”
AN APPROACH THAT BEDAZZLED, AND SOMETIMES, BEFUDDLED
THOSE WHO’D SPENT TIME SEEKING TO AWAKEN ALONG CONTRARY LINES.
AS SUCH CONFUSED SEEKERS WOULD STAGGER ABOUT AFTER HEARING OF THIS APPROACH, THE HEAD OF THE ORDER WOULD OFTEN PRESENT THEM WITH THIS ADDITIONAL COMMENT: “THINKING IS NOT SO MUCH ITSELF A, ‘FUNCTION’ AS IT IS A SIDE EFFECT OF FEELING. …AFTER ALL: OUR ‘TEMPERAMENT’ – (THAT WHICH WE ACTUALLY “ARE”,1 — IS ALL FEELING.
…WHAT MORE NEED BE SAID?!”
THERE IS HOSTILITY IN ALL HUMOR,
EVEN WHEN IT MAY SEEM NOT SO,
FOR ALWAYS PRESENT IS THE MESSAGE THAT SOMEONE ELSE IS “DUMB”,
AND IF YOU HEED, THRU LAUGHTER, YOUR AGREEMENT,
YOU BECOME EQUALLY DUMB.
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COMPARED-TO THE WORLD OF “FEELING”,
THE WORLD OF “THOUGHT” IS ONE OF TOTAL — MAKE BELIEVE.
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IF YOU WOULD BUT CONTINUALLY LOOK INWARDLY,
AND RELENTLESSLY PRESS THE QUESTION:
“FROM WHERE WITHIN ME, ARE THE ‘DECISIONS’ MADE THAT CAUSE ME TO,’ACT’?!”,
IF YOU WOULD BUT PUSH THIS QUESTION TO THE FINAL LIMITS OF INTELLECTUAL INQUIRY
THE TRUE NATURE OF THE THING CALLED, “MIND” WOULD BECOME Daringly APPARENT.
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NOTE: IF NOTHING ANYONE ELSE CAN SAY, IS OF ANY INTEREST TO YOU WHATSOEVER — YOU MAY CONSIDER THAT YOU ARE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION — BUT:
IF YOU REACH A PLACE WHERE EVEN WHAT IS SAID WITHIN YOUR OWN HEAD, INTERESTS-YOU-NOT,
YOU ARE THEN DRAWING NEAR THE DESTINATION ITSELF.
THOSE NOT YET AWAKE IN EVERY SINGLE MOLECULE OF THEIR BEING CAN STILL, “TALK ABOUT IT”.
…(AND DON’T ASK ME ABOUT THE OTHERS…DISCOVER THAT FOR YOURSELF.)
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SPEAKING IN “COMPRABLES”:
FEELINGS ARE OF A “PRIMARY” ORDER, AND “THOUGHTS” OF A SECONDARY ONE — BUT HOWEVER
NOW-A-DAYS, TO LIVE A FULL, NORMAL MORTAL LIFE,
THE SECONDARY ACTIVITY IS NECESSARY.
…(NOW LET ALL OF THOSE WISHING FOR ENLIGHTENMENT REPEAT AFTER ME:
“WE’RE NOT INTERESTED IN MERELY LIVING FULL “ORDINARY LIVES”,
WHICH TURN OUT TO BE, (OPERATIONALLY SPEAKING),
MUCH LESS THAN “FULL & ADEQUATE” FOR MY TASTES!”
..[REPEAT AS OFTEN AS NEEDED.])
A TIP ON KNOWING: “WHERE-TO-GO”:
IF YOU ARE NOT ALLOWING THE SECONDARY ACTIVITY OF “THINKING”, TO OVER-RIDE THE PRIMARY ONE OF, “FEELING”,
THEN ALWAYS TRUST THE LATTER TO GIVE YOU PROPER DIRECTIONS.
…AND ONE MAN WHO FINALLY AWOKE & WHOSE EYES OPENED TO “PLAIN REALITY” SAID TO HIMSELF: “YOU KNOW, ‘MYSTICISM’S’ NOT ALL THAT MYSTICAL.”
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ASSUMING YOU GRASP WHAT I MEAN BY THE WORD, “FEELINGS”, TAKE NOTE OF THIS:
IF YOU LIMIT & HOLD YOUR AWARENESS OF BEING ALIVE TO, “FEELINGS”,
SEVERAL THINGS, (CONDUCIVE TO CLEAR HEADEDNESS), WILL OCCUR:
YOU WILL CEASE “TALKING TO YOURSELF;
YOU WILL LOSE ALL SENSE OF “TI[ME PASSING”:
YOU WILL NOT DREAM OF PAST LOSSES, NOR FEAR OF FUTURE DISASTERS:
YOU WILL “PLAN FOR” NOTHING, AND, (ALL-IN-ALL): WANT FOR NOTHING…NOTHING,THAT IS
THAT FEELINGS WILL NOT UNFAILING LEAD YOU TO.
IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED HERE:
THE REASON THAT MEN GOSSIP EXCLUSIVELY ABOUT MATTERS “EXTERNAL”
(THAT IS: ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE’S “BEHAVIOR”,
RATHER THAN ABOUT WHAT GOES ON IN THEM, :[INTERNALLY),
IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT ORDINARY, NON-MYSTICALLY INCLINED MEN
NON-MENTALLY “KNOW-THAT” — FEELINGS
(WHICH ARE THE MOTIVATION BEHIND ALL NON-FRIVOLOUS BEHAVIOR),
ARE OBVIOUSLY OF MORE IMPORTANCE THAN THE “THOUGHTS” OF MEN.
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ANYONE WITH AN “ANSWER” TO ANY NON-PHYSICAL “PROBLEM” IS ENSNARED IN “SELF-DECEPTION”,
AND IF YOU GIVE HEED TO THEIR WORDS, YOU BECOME EQUALLY DECEIVED.
TAKE A TIP FROM THE MODERN ARMY AND LET YOUR MOTTO BE: “DON’T TALK — DON’T LISTEN
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DEMOGRAPHICS PROVE CONCLUSIVELY THAT: EVERYONE – “FEELS” BUT NOT
EVERYONE “THINKS”!,
(LEASTWISE IN ANY MEANINGFUL FASHION BEYOND THAT MINIMALLY REQUIRED TO
SIMPLY “SURVIVE”.)
* * *
BY THE BY: THE REASON THAT THERE ARE “NO-ANSWERS-TO” ANYTHING
IS SIMPLY BECAUSE THERE ARE NO ACTUAL QUESTIONS.
THAT IS: NO DOUBTS OR QUESTIONS REGARDING HOW A PERSON SHOULD LIVE THEIR LIFE TO MOST ENHANCE THEIR CHANCE OF PHYSICAL SURVIVAL:
ALL OF THE SO-CALLED, “QUESTIONS” THAT SEEM TO BEDEVIL MEN
ARE, (TO THE ENLIGHTENED EYE), BUT MANIFESTATIONS FROM A WORLD OF TOTAL,
“MAKE BELIEVE”,
AND OBVIOUSLY TO, SUCH “PRETEND INQUIRIES”,
NO RESPONSE IS TO BE REASONABLY EXPECTED.
AN AWAKENED MAN CAN “FEEL” THE TRUTH….BUT NEVER, “THINK” IT.
(THINK ABOUT THAT.)
THE HEAD OF A CERTAIN, “SOCIETY FOR CLEAR-HEADEDNESS”, (WHO DAILY GAVE LECTURES ON THE TOPIC),
ONE DAY SAID TO THOSE ASSEMBLED FOR THE PURPOSE:
“SINCE ‘TALKING’ REQUIRES, ‘THINKING’,
I DO NOT FEEL AS THOUGH I SHOULD BE TALKING TO YOU
…BUT IF I DO NOT, ‘TALK TO YOU’
THEN I CAN TELL YOU NOTHING ABOUT FEELING OR THINKING.”
* * *
JUST AS YOU SHOULD NOT BE SHOCKED,
IF YOU REACH DOWN TO HELP A WOUNDED SCORPION, AND ARE BITTEN,
NEITHER, IF YOU LOOK UP IN YOUR,OWN HEAD FOR ASSISTANCE & GUIDANCE, SHOULD YOU BE SURPRISED AT WHATEVER,BEFALLS YOU.
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ONE WAY FROM WHICH TO APPROACH THE PROPOSITION THAT:
“LIFE WANTS MAN, (VIA THOUGHT), TO — ‘DECEIVE HIMSELF”,
IS TO CONSIDER THAT THRU SO DOING,
MEN WILL ATTEMPT, OR — DREAM-OF-ATTEMPTING —
THINGS THAT MAY BE PRESENTLY — IMPOSSIBLE.
…(IS IT ANY WONDER WHY LIFE NEVER NEEDS THE SERVICES OF AN “EFFICACY EXPERT”!?
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WHEN YOUR AWARENESS OF LIFE IS PRIMARILY COMING THRU “FEELINGS”
YOU “FEEL” NO NEED TO – CRITICIZE ANY ASPECT OF LIFE,
AND THEN SEE QUITE CLEARLY THAT,
EVERY SINGLE THING IS THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IS WORKING JUST AS IT SHOULD & MUST.
THE UNDERSTANDING OF “JUSTICE”, AND THE DIRECT PERCEPTION OF LIFE
COMES THRU “FEELING” — NOT THRU “THOUGHT”.