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ONE NOVEMBER DAY THE HEAD OF A CERTAIN MYSTICAL SCHOOL SAID TO THOSE YOUNGER IN ATTENDANCE:
“THE MORE I UNDERSTAND AWAKENING THE LESS I KNOW ABOUT IT.”
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ONE MAN HAD A NOSE — AND ONLY THE ONE NOSE, I MIGHT ADD -AND THE NOSE TOOK ON A PECULIAR TRAIT: IT BEGAN TO “DISLIKE ITSELF”!
NOW THE MAN HAD NO COMPLAINT WITH HIS NOSE — ONLY THE NOSE ITSELF DID.
NOW WHAT D’YA THINK ABOUT THAT?!
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AND SPEAKING OF, “WHAT D’YA THINK” — WHAT D’YA THINK ABOUT THIS ONE:
WHAT D’YA MAKE OF THE STATEMENT, ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS MADE BY PAST HONORABLE ONES WHO SAID THAT THE DESIRE FOR ENLIGHTENMENT WAS THE UNDERTAKING TO:
“OVERCOME THE IMPOSSIBLE; FOREBEAR THE UNBEARABLE, AND UNTANGLE THE UNSOLVABLE” …WHAT D’YA PERSONALLY — MAKE OF THAT?!
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THERE WAS ONCE A MAN WHO HAD A MAGIC TELESCOPE: IT COULD SEE EVERY WHERE, AND
IT COULD SEE EVERY THING WELL, THAT IS WITH ONE EXCEPTION:
IT COULD NOT SEE ITSELF. ….WAIT, COME TO THINK ON IT:
IT SHOULDN’T BE CALLED A “MAGIC” TELESCOPE UNLESS IT COULD — SEE ITSELF. …HEY, WHAT ELSE IS”THE-ENLIGHTENMENT-REGARDING -THE-MIND”ALL ABOUT ANY WAY?!
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NOTE: YOUR OWN ENLIGHTENMENT HAS TWO PARTICULAR ASPECTS: ONE IS THAT IT DOES NOT COME THRU MENTAL EFFORT, AND TWO, IT IS NOT SOMETHING APART FROM MENTAL EFFORT.
…AND WHAT D’YA THINK OF THIS ONE?!
AT LEAST ONCE A DAY THIS ONE CHAP WOULD SAY TO HIMSELF:
“WHAT IS NEEDED IS A TOTALLY NEW – RADICAL APPROACH TO THIS THING!”, AND THEN PROCEED TO LIVE THE SAME OLD KIND OF DAY.
THEN THERE WAS THIS OTHER GUY WHO SAID:
“I DON’T MIND SO MUCH BEING A, “CREATURE-OF-HABIT’,
NO, THE WORST PART IS THAT — I’VE BECOME SO USED TO IT.”
…(HE LATER ASKED HIMSELF WHAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT HE’D SAID ?!)
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NOT FAR FROM HERE WAS A MAN WHO DIDN’T CARE MUCH FOR WORDS,
BUT HE HAD HOWEVER,
ONE “SPECIAL WORD” WHICH HE COULD SAY THAT WOULD BANISH ALL OF THE OTHER ONES FOR WHICH HE HAD DISDAIN.-_
ALL WOULD SEEM WELL THEN IN THIS AREA OF HIS L[FE….EXCEPT FOR ONE DETAIL:
IT BOTHERED HIM THAT THE SOURCE OF THE ONE SPECIAL WORD THAT DISPLACED ALL OF THE COMMON ONES WHICH ANNOYED HIM
APPEARED TO BE THE SAME SOURCE FROM WHENCE CAME THE COMMON ONES.
I CAN’T TELL YOU PRECISELY WHY THIS BOTHERED H[M,
BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT IT DID’ AND MOST STRONGLY.
…(I WONDER WHY THAT WAS….DON’T YOU?!)
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FACT: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE WHO MERELY DREAM THAT THEY WISH THEY WERE AWAKE AND THOSE WHO DAMN-WELL INSIST ON IT IS THIS: THE FIRST BUNCH ARE “SOFT AND GOOEY”
WHILE THE SECOND ARE HARD AS RAILROAD SPIKES,
AND AS DIRECT .:AS THE DRIVING WHEELS AGAINST THE TRACKS
AND ONE MYSTIC SAID TO HIS SON: “TAKE NO USELESS CRAP FROM ANYONE.”, AND THE LAD INSTANTLY KNEW THAT
THE STATEMENT REFERRED TO HIM TAKING THE THOUGHTS IN HIS HEAD
TO BE HIMSELF.
SIMPLY DON’T BE THE DOG WITH THE CURLY TAIL_WHICH, UNBEKNOWNST TO HIM,
WHEN IT’S WAGGING, IS WHAT IS ANNOYINGLY BRUSHING HIS BACK
AND CAUSING HIM TO CONTINUALLY TAKE TIME OUT OF HIS BUSY & FASCINATING LIFE TO FRUITLESSLY — GLANCE BACK OVER HIS SHOULDER.
“BE NOT DISTRACTED BY ANYONE… ESPECIALLY BY-YOUR.OWN TAIL –
ONE MAN HAD A NOSE, A MAGIC TELESCOPE, A SPECIAL WORD,
AND A TAIL…AHH…I GUESS WE’VE COVERED THIS ADEQUATELY…
LET’S MOVE ON TO SOME “STORAGE NEWS”:
ONE MAN HAD NOTHING TO — “STORE”,
(IS THAT A RADICAL IDEA OR WHAT?!)
“OKAY KIDS,-.CLASS IS .OVER….TIME TO PUT AWAY YOUR TAILS.”
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AND NOW FROM OUR FILES OF: “HOW THINGS ARE”,
(THIS IS THE SAME FEATURE THAT WAS ORIGINALLY ENTITLED:
“HOW THINGS SURPRISINGLY ARE”, WHICH OUR EDITORIAL BOARD DECIDED WAS UNNECESSARILY VERBOSE INTHAT THE KINDS OF THINGS THAT ARE BEING NOTED
CAN NOT, (UPON REFLECTION), BE ALL THAT “SURPRISING”
TO ANY REASONABLY ALERT MAN), WELL, AT ANY RATE:
HERE ONCE AGAIN IS A FEATURE FROM OUR FILES OF: “HOW THINGS ARE”:
FORGET ABOUT SAINTS & DO-GOOD-ERS:
THE SAFEST, LEAST DANGEROUS MAN IS THE MAN WHO IS — HEARTLESS.
THOSE WHO TAKE NO MEANINGLESS CRAP FROM THEM SELF PROFFER NONE TO OTHERS.
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EVERYONE WALKS ON THEIR OWN FEET:.
TO BE ENLIGHTENED IS TO BE COMPLETELY AWARE THAT IT IS YOUR OWN FEET UPON WHICH YOU TREAD.
AND THIS MADE ONE MYSTIC MUSE TO HIMSELF:
“PUT THAT WAY, IT DOESN’T SOUND LIKE MUCH, DO IT?’
…’CEPT FOR THE FACT THAT IT NICELY COVERS EVERY SINGLE THING
I’VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR.AND WONDERING ABOUT.”
…(YOU THINK HE REALLY UNDERSTANDS WHAT HE JUST SAID?!)
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THE MIND IS INDEED, A NATURALLY “ROAMING” CREATURE, BUT THOSE AWAKE & FREE CAN NAIL SOUP TO A DOOR FRAME.
…(WELL WHAT LESS DID YOU IMAGINE IS ULTIMATELY REQUIRED?! )
AND A BOY ASKED HIS FATHER: “TELL ME – TELL ME ONCE AND FOR ALL:
IS ‘AWAKENING’ POSSIBLE, OR IS IT NOT?”, AND THE ELDER EXCLAIMED: “WELL FINALLY YOU’VE — GOT IT!”
ONE MAN HAD SOME INVESTMENTS, WHICH SEEMED PROFITABLE, AND
WHICH HE CONTINUED TO NURTURE UNTIL HE HAD MANY INVESTMENTS
ALL OF WHICH ALSO APPEARED TO — “GAIN” IN VALUE,
BUT SURPRISINGLY HE DISCOVERED THAT THE EXPANDED “INVESTMENTS”
WITH THEIR ADDITIONAL “GAINS” DID NOT BRING HIM THE SATISFACTION HE SOUGHT.
AFTER TIME SPENT IN A CERTAIN MANNER HE CAME TO REALIZE THAT WHAT HE NEEDED WAS NOT “GAINS”, BUT — LOSSES,
AND HE FORTHWITH WENT ABOUT TRYING TO DISPOSE OF ALL HIS INVESTMENTS
AS EXPEDITIOUSLY,AS WAS FOR HIM, POSSIBLE.
AND A BOY SAID TO HIMSELF: “THIS WAS SURELY ALL ABOUT THOSE THINGS THAT NORMALLY FILL ONE’S MIND.” AND WAS PLEASED TO ASSURE HIMSELF THAT IT WAS.
TO “BE MORE CONSCIOUS”
IS NOT TO BE MORE CONSCIOUS OF WHAT YOU POSSESS, BUT IS RATHER TO BE AWARE THAT,
OTHER THAN FOR THE BODY & YOUR NATURAL TEMPERAMENT YOU POSSESS NOTHING.
THUS, THE FULLY ENLIGHTENED DO NOT HAVE TO PLAY BEGGAR, AND PRETEND TO BE “DESTITUTE”.
…AND UNDER HIS BREATH,
AND UNDER HIS CLOTHES,
ONE MYSTIC MUTTERED: “THANK GOD FOR MY BASIC, IRREVOCABLE ‘NAKEDNESS’
FOR WITHOUT ITS EVER-PRESENCE
THE POSSIBILITY OF ME REACHING THE FARTHERMOST POINT OF MY GOAL
WOULD NOT EXIST.”
THE APPARENT EFFORT TO AWAKEN
WITH YOUR ARMS FOREVER FULL
IS A PITIFUL JOKE,
SAME AS WITH HE WHO PROCLAIMS: “YES, I AM NOW AWAKE, AND FREE OF ALL ILLUSIONS.”
AS LONG AS THE MIND STILL GRASPS — YOU STILL MISS.
…AND A BOY SAID TO HIS DAD: “SO PERHAPS I SHOULD JUST — ‘GIVE-IT-LIP’– RIGHT?! “IF YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE SAYING, YES.”, HE REPLIED.
“IF YOU TOTALLY REALIZE BY NOW THAT THERE IS NOTHING THAT A MAN CAN ‘GIVE UP’ SAVE HIS IRRELEVANT DREAMS & DELUSIONS.”
…AND A CERTAIN MYSTIC CALLED HIS BROKER WITH THE DIRECTIONS:
“SELL EVERYTHING — AND THE SOONER THE BETTER.”
TONIGHT’S “FAIRLY TALE”:
ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A PLACE IN WHICH EVERYTHING THAT IDENTIFIED ITSELF AS BEING “THIS OR THAT” IN PARTICULAR WAS THEN PERFORCE FOR SURE NOT TO BE
WHAT IT HAD CLAIMED ITSELF TO BE;
NOW YOU MIGHT BELIEVE THAT THIS WOULD BE THE CAUSE OF GREAT CONFUSION….
…BUT YOU WOULD BE IN ERROR,
EVERYTHING WENT ALONG JUST AS WELL & EFFICIENTLY AS IT DOES RIGHT HERE.. RIGHT NOW …:[F WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THAT GRAND WORLD OF WORD & THOUGHT.
IN THE REALM OF “CLEAR-HEADED MYSTOLOGY”(DO NOTE), THERE ARE NO SUCH CRITTERS AS “VERBOSE HEROES”, (THIS INDEED-EE TO INCLUDE INNER PALAVER.)
THE MOST ENLIGHTENED THING TO BE SAID IS: “I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY.”, THE MOST AWAKENED THING TO BE THOUGHT BEING: HAVING NO THOUGHT
AND A LAD ASKED HIS DAD: “TELL ME CONCLUSIVELY, OLD MAN:
IS IT ACTUALLY POSSIBLE TO HAVE NO THOUGHT, OR IS IT NOT?!”
AND HIS PA PA CRIED OUT: “AT LAST, YOU’VE FINALLY GOT IT’ WELL,
OTHER THAN FOR THE FACT OF YOU JUST THEN ASKING ABOUT IT BUT, HAY!,
WHAT THE HELL, AFTER ALL: YOU ARE JUST ‘HUMAN’!”
WHICH THE ALERT LAD HELD NOT FOR A MOMENT AS EXCULPATORY.
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THOSE HALF AWAKE, THOSE THREE-QUARTERS AWAKE,
AND THOSE WHO COMPREHEND WHAT THE WHOLE AFFAIR IS REALLY ALL ABOUT IS THIS:
THOSE HALF-AWAKE BELIEVE THEM SELF STURDY, BUT ARE :IN FACT, SEQUACIOUS:
THOSE THREE-QUARTERS AWAKE BELIEVE THEM SELF SUPPLE BUT ARE BRITTLE,
WHILE THOSE WHO “KNOW-WHAT-IT’S-ALL-ABOUT” BELIEVE NOTHING ABOUT THEM SELF, AND SIMPLY BEND AND SWAY WITH THE NORMAL COMINGS-&-GOINGS OF LIFE.
LACKING ANY PERSONAL COMMENTS ON THE MATTER.
YOU’VE GOT TO BE STRONG TO BE STURDY,
AND STRONG TO PROPERLY YIELD,
AND THE STRENGTH REFERRED TO HERE IS OF UNDERSTANDING, NOT OF MUSCLE,
AND THE BOY AGAIN APPROACHED HIS FATHER: “THEN TELL ME FINALLY;
IS THERE ANYTHING TO ‘UNDERSTAND’, OR IS THERE NOT?”,
“YOU’VE GOT IT!”, HE SHOUTED WITH CONCLUSIVE JOY.
…AND WITH THAT PIECE OF ANTI-NEWS, WE END TONIGHT’S NEWS.