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The News
THE NEWS FOR DECEMBER 25,1998
AT THE END OF THE DAY,
AFTER ALL OF THE STATS & SCORES ARE TALLIED:
ENLIGHTENMENT IS NOT SOME EXOTIC,_METAPHYSICAL HAPPENSTANCE,
(ALTHOUGH EXTRAORDINARY, PASSING STATES MAY CERTAINLY ACCOMPANY IT),
NO, ENLIGHTENMENT IS MORE A MATTER OF A MAN BECOMING:
CLEAR-HEADED, FIRMLY GROUNDED, NOT DISTRACTED BY MEANINGLESS MENTAL ACTIVITY,
AND WELL SECURED & SATISFIED IN HIS REALIZATION OF HIMSELF AND LIFE.
A MAN WHOSE CONTINUING CONDITION IS THUS, IS ENLIGHTENED.
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IT IS CERTAINLY EASIER TO EXPLAIN THE MIND THAN IT IS TO UNDERSTAND IT.
…THUS IT IS EASIER TO EXPLAIN MAN THAN IT IS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HE IS. A_SATISFYING, (THUS, NON-ROUTINE), “UNDERSTANDING-OF-MAN” COMES ABOUT ONLY THRU A PLAIN, DIRECT & NON-CONCEPTIONAL AWARENESS OF HIM.
“THINKING-ABOUT” THE ACTIVITIES & NATURE OF MAN IS THE SURE BAR TO UNDERSTANDING HIM.
A MORE SPECIFIC VIEW OF THE ILLS ATTENDED-TO, “TALKING, EXTERNALLY & OTHERWISE, ABOUT YOURSELF IS THAT
EACH TIME YOU DO, YOU SUBVERSIVELY RE-ENFORCE THE DISTORTED, MENTAL CONCEPTION OF WHAT CONSTITUTES YOUR, “NORMAL SELF”.
THE WORDS & PICTURES A MAN HOLDS IN HIS HEAD REGARDING”WHAT-HE-IS”, WHEN, SEEN-FOR-WHAT-THEY-ARE
DO NOT FAITHFULLY REPRESENT WHAT HE REALLY IS.
WHAT EACH PERSON TRULY IS,
IS WHATEVER BE THEIR NATURAL BORN TEMPERAMENT & PHYSICAL MAKE LIP:
THIS ALONE IS A MAN’S TRUE, “NORMAL SELF”:
WHAT MEN COMMONLY REFER TO AS THEIR “NORMAL SELF” TURNS OUT TO BE AN
INDISTINCT, DISINGENUOUS HODGE-PODGE CONSISTING OF A
LITTLE BIT OF HIS NATURE, MIXED LIP WITH A WHOLE LOT OF
THINKING-ABOUT-HIMSELF
DRAWN FROM THE COLLECTIVE, COMMON CLOUD OF UNCONSCIOUS, HUMAN MENTATION.
THUS IT BE THAT YOU HAVE TWO POTENTIAL, “NORMAL SELFS”:
THE ONE YOU THINK YOU HAVE, AND THE SILENT ONE YOU ACTUALLY ARE.
…UNDERSTANDING THIS IS — “ENLIGHTENMENT”.
MEN LIVE IN TWO WORLDS:
THE PRIMARY ONE OF DOING, (NECESSARY FOR SURVIVAL),
AND THE SECONDARY ONE OF THINKING, (NECESSARY FOR FULL HUMAN EXISTENCE), AND NOTE: ACTIVITIES THAT ARE A RESULT OF THINKING ALWAYS HAVE,
“UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES”
AND: FURTHER NOTE, REGARDING,”UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES”: THE INSTANCE SIGNIFICANT TO THE FEW IS THE BELIEF THAT
CONSEQUENCES EXPERIENCED IN THE SECONDARY REALM OF THOUGHT ACTUALLY HAVE – CAUSES
NOTE UPON NOTE: THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF BEING, “INTERNALLY DISTRACTED FROM THE MOMENT”
IS THE CONDITION WE CALL – “SLEEP”
SO: THE MORE YOU LIVE IN THE PRIMARY WORLD
THE LESS OPPORTUNITY YOU HAVE TO DAZED, DUMB AND DISTRACTED, …AND BE VICTIM OF “UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES”.
P.S.: BOY SCOUTS AREN’T THE ONLY ONES — “PREPARED”.
LEGEND TELLS OF ONE MAN WHO THOUGHT SO MUCH ABOUT AWAKENING THAT HE NEVER HAD TIME TO GET AROUND TO DOING IT.
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THAT WHICH IS OBVIOUS REMAINS SO
ONLY WHEN IT IS NOT OBSCURED BY UNNECESSARY THINKING ABOUT IT.
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EVERYTHING IS PLAIN TO A MAN WHO IS PLAIN.
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JUST AS THE WEATHER WILL DO, JUST WHATEVER IT WANTS TO DO,
SO TOO ARE THE ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS WITHIN YOU.
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JUST WHAT IS, “BEING ENLIGHTENED” OTHER THAN SIMPLY REALIZING, WHAT’S GOING ON?!
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THE TRICK IS TO BE TOTALLY, “SELF-ABSORBED”
WITH THE RECOGNITION THAT YOUR THINKING IS NOT YOUR “SELF” — THUS:
THE TRICK IS TO BE TOTALLY, “SELF-ABSORBED”,
ABSORBED IN YOUR ACTUAL “SELF” — NOT ABSORBED :[N THE THOUGHTS PASSING THRU YOU.
WHAT IS, “BEING ENLIGHTENED” OTHER THAN SIMPLY REALIZING, “WHAT’S GOING ON”?!
AND: JUST WHAT IS “BEING ASLEEP” AND ORDINARY OTHER THAN BEING, “INTERNALLY DISTRACTED FROM THE MOMENT”?
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A ‘CERTAIN MAN WHO “KNEW-WHAT-HE-WAS-TALKING-ABOUT”,
SAID TO AN AUDIENCE OF THOSE WHO,”WANTED-TO-KNOW-WHAT-IS-GOING-ON”:
“I CAN DESCRIBE THE MATTER OF AWAKENING IN TWO WAYS:
I CAN DESCRIBE IT SO THAT IT WILL SOUND COMPLEX & FAR AWAY,
OR I CAN DESCRIBE IT SO THAT IT WILL SOUND SIMPLE & NEAR BY:
IF I DESCRIBE IT SO THAT IT SOUNDS COMPLEX & FAR AWAY,
MANY OF YOU WILL BECOME EXCITED AND READY TO UNDERTAKE THE JOURNEY:
IF I DESCRIBE ENLIGHTENMENT SO THAT IT SOUNDS SIMPLE & NEAR BY
ONLY A VERY FEW OF YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GRASP ANYTHING FROM MY WORDS WHICH WILL
INSPIRE YOU TO PERUSE THE MATTER FURTHER.
WHAT I HAVE JUST DESCRIBED TO YOU. CONSTITUTES YOUR
FIRST LESSON IN ‘AWAKENING’.”
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WHEN YOU ARE PHYSICALLY ILL,
YOU ARE DIZZY FROM THE SCALP DOWN:
WHEN YOU ARE IN MAN’S ORDINARY STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS YOU ARE DIZZY SPECIFICALLY IN YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS.
IN EACH & EVERY INSTANT
YOU CAN BE EITHER: DISTRACTED OR ALERT: EITHER: STARING OR SEEING:
EITHER: HERE, RIGHT NOW, OR OFF SOME WHERE ELSE IN AN IMAGINARY TIME ZONE.
JUST WHAT IS, “BEING AWAKE” OTHER THAN
BEING NON-DIZZY AND DISTRACTED?!
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WHEN YOU ARE “TOO BUSY” IN THE HEAD
THE AIM OF THIS ACTIVITY HIDES & RECEDES IN THE DISTANCE,
A SITUATION NOT NECESSARY IF YOU WILL BUT CLEAR YOUR HEAD, AND LOOK STRAIGHT AHEAD.
THAT WHICH IS PLAIN & SIMPLE
BECOMES LOST AMIDST THE SCRAMBLING OF THE MIND TO PERCEIVE IT.
JUST WHAT IS, “THE GREAT LIBERATION OTHER THAN, FREEDOM FROM, “UNNECESSARY BUSYNESS”?!
YOU’VE GOT TO, “TAKE YOUR TIME” —
— AND WHEN YOU’RE NOT DOING ANYTHING YOU’VE GOT TO DOUBLE YOUR ATTENTION TO, “TAKING YOUR TIME”.
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THOSE WHO HAVE UNCOVERED THE NATURE OF WHAT AWAKENING IS
DO NOT
TALK ABOUT WHAT IT IS,
DO NOT
THINK ABOUT WHAT IT IS,
AND DO NOT
KNOW WHAT IT IS.
ARE YOU SUCH A PERSON? IF NOT: WHAT’S HOLDING YOU UP?!
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ON DAYS WHEN HE FELT SIMPLE,
ONE MAN FOUND THE WHOLE IDEA OF ENLIGHTENMENT — SIMPLE:
BUT ON DAYS WHEN HE FELT CONFUSED, OVERWHELMED & DISTRACTED….WELL, YOU KNOW.
ARE YOU STILL SUCH A MAN?…IF SO: WHY?! WHAT’S THE CAUSE OF YOUR STAGNATION?
UNRELATED FACT: UNNECESSARY “BUSYNESS”
IS THE CAUSE OF EVERYTHING ANTIPODAL TO AWAKENING.
UNDEVELOPED MYSTICS FIND IT POSSIBLE TO BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE THE REINCARNATED SPIRIT OF A BUDDHA, JESUS, ETC., WHILE
THOSE ACTUALLY ENLIGHTENED OFF TIMES FIND IT DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE THEM SELF.
SOME TIMES SILLINESS MEANS A MUCH TO THE SUPER ALERT AS DOES THAT WHICH SEEMS SERIOUS.
FINAL FACT: MIS-PLACED “SERIOUSNESS” IS THE SOURCE OF ALL THINGS OPPOSED TO THE DIRECT PERCEPTION & UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT MEANS TO, “BE ALIVE”
PLEASE DON’T, (I BESEECH YOU), CONTINUE MUCH LONGER TO FALL PREY TO THE
DISTORTIONS & DELUSIONS OF: UNNECESSARY, “MENTAL BUSYNESS”, AND MEANINGLESS SENSATIONS OF “MORTAL SERIOUSNESS”.
GO AHEAD, TAKE A DEEP, CLEAR-HEADED BREATH & SMILE– IMITATE A MAN AWAKE.