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HERE ARE TWO APPARENTLY DIFFERENT WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE THOUGHTS THAT PASS NATURALLY THRU YOUR M[ND:
ONE WAY IS TO SAY THAT SINCE THEY ARE NOT PRODUCTS OF YOUR OWN DOING, THEY MAY BE PROPERLY TREATED AS FOREIGN TO YOU:
THE OTHER WAY IS IN THIS QUESTION:
WHY TREAT SOMETHING THAT IS NATURALLY YOURS AS FOREIGN?!
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DUE TO THE FACT THAT OUR THOUGHTS CAN BE FAR, FAR REMOVED FROM OUR INSTANT,
PHYSICAL REALITY,
QUITE ORDINARY MEN OFTEN FEEL A KIND OF ALIENATION FROM THEM SELF:
THEY COMMONLY TRY TO TREAT THE SITUATION WITH MEDICATION, MEDITATION,
PRAYER, PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING, DRUGS, ALCOHOL, AND TALKING ABOUT THEM SELF.
A MAN HOWEVER, WHO HAS COME TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF THOUGHTS
KNOWS THERE IS NO CURATIVE TREATMENT FOR THE NATURAL OPERATIONS OF THE MIND.
SUCH A MAN GRADUALLY REALIZES THAT THIS DISTURBING SENSE OF INTERNAL ALIENATION
RESULTING FROM THE CLASHES BETWEEN HIS INSTINCTS & HIS THOUGHTS
IS SIMPLY THE WAY THINGS ARE ALREADY ARRANGED IN MAN,
AND THAT THE ONLY POSSIBLE RELIEF FROM THE SITUATION IS A
PLAIN, ABIDING AWARENESS THEREOF,
AND THEN A CONSCIOUS TURNING AWAY THEREFROM.
WHAT IS TO BE GAINED BY THINKING OF THAT WHICH IS NATURAL IN YOU AS, FOREIGN TO YOU ?!
THE PRINCESS WOULD HAVE HAD HER DREAM PRICE MUCH QUICKER HAD SHE,
INSTEAD OF RESISTING THE FROG, HAD SNATCHED IT UP & INSTANTLY SWALLOWED IT WHOLE.
AND ALL JUST SAID CAUSED ONE BOY TO SAY TO HIS FATHER:
“AM I BEING REMINDED AGAIN THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A ‘VALID MENTAL MAP’
OF ANYTHING?’ AND THAT THEREFORE I SHOULD ALWAYS BE STRIVING-FOR, AND
OPEN-TO NEW ONES, NO MATTER HOW DISRUPTIVE THEY MAY BE TO PREVIOUSLY HELD ONES?!”
AND HIS FATHER QUICKLY ASSURED HIM OF HIS CORRECTNESS THEN THEY BOTH
FELL SILENT. AND GAZED OFF, FAR INTO THE INF[NITE DISTANCE,
AS THEY PONDERED THE DIFFICULTY IN CONTINUALLY EXECUTING THIS SEEMINGLY SIMPLE TASK.
ONCE A MAP OF CONCEPTS REGARDING WHAT YOU PERCEIVE L[FE & YOURSELF TO BE HAS BECOME FAMILIAR, COMFORTABLE AND EVEN APPARENTLY, FUNCTIONAL FOR YOU —
— DISCARD IT, AND SET ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FRESH ONE,
AND THE FURTHER REMOVED FROM PAST ONES, THE BETTER.
….AND UPON HEARING THIS NOTED, A MAN ASKED:
“WELL ISN’T ALL THAT YOU’RE SAYING IS THAT
NOTHING COMING OUT OF ANY MAN’S IDEAS IS AN AUTHENTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE INTERNAL AREAS IT PURPORTS TO MAP, AND ARE THUS OF NO PERMANENT VALUE,
BUT MERELY MOMENTARY HINTS AS TO WHICH DIRECTION AN INDIVIDUAL HERE & THERE MIGHT PROFITABLE GLANCE?!”
NO MATTER HOW USEFULLY YOU LOOK AT THINGS ONCE — DON’T DO IT AGAIN!
…AND TO HIS FATHER, THE BOY SAID:
“IS THAT NOT A MOST DIFFICULT THING TO DO?!,
FOR THE MIND, NOT UNLIKE INSTINCTS,
IS NATURALLY INCLINED TO PURSUE THAT WHICH ONCE WAS FOUND NOURISHING.”
“TRUE”, REPLIED THE FATHER, “AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS:
SEE THE SITUATION AS IT IS, THEN TURN YOUR CONSCIOUS ATTENTION ELSE WHERE.
ALL-IN-ALL, SON,
TO EVER REALIZE THAT SPECIAL GOAL
YOU CANNOT INTERNALLY — LIVE-THE-LIFE-OF-THE-ORDINARY —
— NO MATTER HOW DIFFICULT & TRICKY
TURNING AWAY FROM IT MAY SEEM.
IT GRADUALLY BECOMES LESS & LESS LABORIOUS, AND EVENTUALLY IS RECOGNIZED IN FACT
TO BE A MUCH SIMPLER UNDERTAKING THAT YOU HAD ALWAYS THOUGHT.
JUST RELENTLESSLY REMIND YOURSELF OF THE STATEMENT:
‘NO MATTER HOW USEFULLY, EVEN PLEASURABLY YOU LOOKED AT SOMETHING ONCE —
— DON’T LOOK AT IT THAT WAY EVER AGAIN
…THERE IS YOUR KEY, MY BOY, THERE IS YOUR KEY.”
THE MYSTICAL TRAVELER SHOULD ALWAYS SPEAK SPANISH TO A GREEK
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AS REGARDS THE STRUGGLE WITH CONSCIOUSNESS AT THE OLD SWIMMIN’ HOLE: THE FEW ARE CONSTANTLY EITHER: SINKING OR FLOATING —
LIGHT AS A FEATHER — TETHERED TO NOTHING.
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THE TIGHTER YOU HOLD TO YOUR CONCEPTS
THE MORE ARE YOU OFF BALANCE THROWN.
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ONE MAN NAMED HIS MIND, “LET GO.”,
SO THAT EVER TIME HE REFERRED TO IT HE’D BE BLATANTLY REMINDED OF HIS AIM.
CLINGING TO CONCEPTS BLASPHEMES REALITY.
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THE TRUTH ABOUT MEMORY IS THIS: AN AWAKENED MIND HAS NOTHING TO REMEMBER.” CONTINUED ILLNESS IS ASSURED IF TO NEW SYMPTOMS,NEW TREATMENTS AREN’T APPLIED.
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THE ENLIGHTENED MIND IS IN PERFECT BALANCE, AND BY SO BEING,
NOTHING CAN STICK TO IT.
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TAKING THE MIND BEYOND THE REALM OF THOUGHT — NOW THERE’S THE TICKET.
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ENLIGHTENMENT IS BOTH GRADUAL AND SUDDEN:
IN THE BEGINNING IT SEEMS SUDDEN:
THEN IT BECOMES GRADUAL,
AND FINALLY IT IS SUDDEN AGAIN, (DEFINING “SUDDEN” AS SYNONYMOUS WITH “SIMPLE”).
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A BOOK OF MYSTICAL COMMENTARIES IS A MYSTIC’S WORST FOE: A MYSTIC WITH A MIND FILLED WITH MYSTICAL COMMENTARIES HAS THAT PART OF HIS MIND AS HIS WORST FOE.
ONLY MYSTICS WITHOUT THE FULL UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT MYSTICISM IS CONSIDER THEMSELVES MYSTICS.
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IN THE MIND,
THE TOLERATION OF STICKY THOUGHTS IS THE ONE THING INTOLERABLE.
ONE MAN DECLARED: “I WASH MY HANDS OF THE WHOLE AFFAIR.”, THEN ADDED:
“AH, BUT WERE IT ONLY THAT SIMPLE.” THEN I ADDED: “WHY DOES THE MIND INVARIABLY
INSIST THAT NOTHING CAN BE PLAIN & SIMPLE?” (ONLY THE AWAKENED KNOW).
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AND ONE MAN MUSED TO HIS OLE SELF:
“ONCE YOU FULLY REALIZE THAT NOTHING YOU CAN THINK IS ‘SERIOUS’ OR MEANINGFUL, IS IT ALL RIGHT THEN TO
— GO AHEAD THINKING?”
OR, AS STILL ANOTHER CHAP CONSIDERED IT:
“ONCE YOU REALIZE THAT YOU’RE NOT GOING TO DROWN, IS IT ALL RIGHT THEN TO –
– GO AHEAD AND DROWN?”
DEATH COMES BUT ONCE
BUT STUPIDITY JUST — KEEPS ON A’KNOCKIN’.
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IN THE REAL MYSTIC’S LEXICON
THE CLOSEST WORD THERE IS FOR “EVIL” IS — HABIT.
IN INSTINCT’S DICTIONARY THERE IS BUT ONE WORD — HABIT.
QUERY: WHO IS CORRECT’? BETTER QUESTION YET:
WHY DOES THE MIND ALWAYS THINK THAT JUST ONE OF ANY TWO POSSIBILITIES MUST BE THE PROPER ONE?
NO REAL MYSTIC HOLDS TO ANY ONE MAP IF HE FINDS HIMSELF THINKING THAT IT IS THE ONLY TRUE ONE.
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WHEN IN THE MIDST OF THOUGHT — YOU CUT IT OFF
YOU HAVE MOMENTARILY SEPARATED YOUR WORLD OF CONCEPTS FROM YOUR REALM OF INSTINCT.
IN THE FLOW OF A RIVER: ONE DROP OF WATER INCESSANTLY FOLLOWS ANOTHER:
INTO THE INCESSANT FLOW OF THOUGHTS MUST
AN ALERT MAN FIRMLY PUT DOWN HIS FOOT.
IT IS NOT SO MUCH A MATTER OF THOUGHTS PER SE BEING THE PROBLEM
AS IT IS THEIR CLINGING NATURE WHICH NEVER FAILS TO CAUSE ONE THOUGHT TO ATTRACT ANOTHER WHICH IN TURN ATTRACTS YET ANOTHER AND SO ON
ONE MAN CALLED HIS MIND BY THE NAME: “NOW THAT’S ENOUGH OF IT!”