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THE NEWS FOR DECEMBER 30, 1998
ONE MAN SIGHS:
“SAD TO SAY BUT PRESENTLY THERE’S NOTHING I ENJOY MORE THAN READING ABOUT —
— IGNORING-THE-MIND;
SAD, YET ALSO SILLY IN THAT THIS, MY CURRENT FAVORITE MENTAL APPROACH TO
BEING MORE AWAKE HAS MY ATTENTION STUCK IN A BOOK,
OR IN ANY PLACE OUTSIDE OF ME
THAT IT SHOULDN’T BE.”
ALTHOUGH I UNDERSTAND WHAT’S BEHIND THE MAN’S EXPRESSED POSITION,
WHAT HE HAS YET TO FULLY COME TO GRIPS WITH IS THE SIMPLE AND SHOULD-BE OBVIOUS FACT THAT
ALL SORTS OF ‘THINKING=ABOUT-BEING-AWAKE: CAN BE GREAT FUN, AND EVEN APPARENTLY INSPIRING, STILL,
‘THINKING-ABOUT’ ANYTHING IS STILL JUST — THINKING-ABOUT-IT.
GO AHEAD AND GIVE TO MIND THE CREDIT IT SO SURELY DESERVES,
AND PLAINLY RECOGNIZE IT FOR THE MARVELOUS SOURCE OF PLEASURE IT CAN BE,
BUT THE SOONER YOU GET OVER THE FUTILE AND FRUSTRATING DELUSIONS-THAT THE MIND
HAS OF ITS ABILITIES,
THE MORE WILL THE ACTUAL NATURE OF WHAT AWAKENING IS BECOME CLEAR TO YOU.
IF THOUGHTS WERE BUT THE SOLE REALITY OF THE MIND
A MAN COULD REALIZE THE ESSENCE OF AWAKENING IN A MATTER OF SECONDS, RATHER THAN YEARS.
NO THOUGHT CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING MORE THAN — PLEASING ITSELF ‘& OTHER THOUGHTS:
THERE IS NOTHING INJURIOUS IN THIS EITHER FROM AN ORDINARY OR MYSTICAL VIEW:
THE “HARM”, (IN ITS WASTE OF EFFORT), IS IN FOREVER ALLOWING YOUR M[ND, AND
ALL OF ITS POTENTIAL,
TO BE TAKEN-LIP-WITH, AND CONSUMED-BY
NOTHING MORE THAN THE EVERYDAY, ROUTINE THOUGHTS THAT AUTOMATICALLY PASS THRU
YOUR MIND.
PASS THRU, THEY WILL —
— THE ONLY QUESTION IS WHETHER OR NOT YOU PASSIVELY ALLOW THEM TO
FILL UP ALL OF THE TIME & SPACE AVAILABLE IN YOUR MIND, OR ELSE WILLFULLY, MOMENT-TO-MOMENT, SPLIT OFF A PIECE OF YOUR MIND THAT THEN STANDS ASIDE THE MECHANICAL FLOW OF THOUGHTS ALWAYS AIMED IN ITS DIRECTION.
THE MIND, WITH ITS INHERENT ABILITY TO BE STILL, AND SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED,
IS, (AS IT WERE), UNDER CONSTANT ASSAULT BY UN-FOCUSED
RANDOM & ASSOCIATIVE THOUGHTS,
AND WHEN MIND IS OVERWHELMED AND TOTALLY TAKEN UP BY SUCH THOUGHTS
IT IS THE STATE REFERRED TO AS, “SLEEP, CAPTIVITY AND DELUSION”.
WHAT IS OH SO EASY TO OCCUR, EVEN WITH THE MOST SINCERE OF MYSTICS
IS TO IGNORE — APPARENTLY EVEN, FORGET ABOUT — THAT SIMPLE, ALWAYS-AVAILABLE
ACT OF PEELING OFF A SLICE OF YOUR EVERYDAY, ALWAYS-THERE “MIND”
WHICH WILL THEN STAND STILL, CLEAR-EYED AND FOCUSED,
AND ABSOLUTELY APART-FROM THE MEANINGLESS, SLEEP-PRODUCING THOUGHTS THAT MAY
YET BE RUNNING THRU THE REMAINING SECTION OF ITSELF, FOR AS LONG AS YOU CAUSE THIS
CONDITION TO PERSIST.
WHILE IT CAN BE VALIDLY SAID THAT A MAN DOES NOT ACTUALLY HAVE AN “I” SUCH AS IS
THE PERFUNCTORY MENTAL SENSATION BROUGHT ON BY THE NEVER ENDING FLOW OF
EVER CHANGING THOUGHTS RUNNING THRU HIS MIND,
IT CAN EQUALLY BE SAID WITH AUTHORITY THAT A MAN CAN INDEED PRODUCE AN “I”
WITHIN HIMSELF WHEN EVER HE CHOOSES
SIMPLY BY THE ACT OF
SPLITTING OFF A PIECE OF HIS MIND FROM THIS FLOW OF THOUGHTS
WHICH THEN, INSTANTANEOUSLY, BECOMES THE NEAREST THING DESCRIBABLE AS BEING
ACTUALLY,-“INDIVIDUALISTIC” TO THE PERSON.
THE EVER-IMMEDIACY — AND THE, UTTER-SIMPLICITY OF WHAT A MAN CAN ALWAYS BE DOING
AT EVER SINGLE MOMENT,
UNDER ALL POSSIBLE CONDITIONS,
TENDS TO STAY PARTIAL SUBMERGED IN THE EVER TUMBLING HODGE-PODGE OF THOUGHTS
THAT POUR THRU A MAN’S MIND LIKE A ROARING RIVER THRU ITS BED,
AND KEEPS, JUST OUT OF SIGHT OF HIS MEMORY AND ATTENTION
THE PROFITABLE ACT OF HIM SIMPLY SLICING OFF A PIECE OF HIS
NATURALLY “UNENCUMBERED MIND”, A PART THAT THEN,
FOR AS LONG AS HE MAINTAINS THE SITUATION,
IS HIS MENTAL STEPPING STONE, IF NOT, OUTRIGHT ENTREE TO THE WORLD OF AWAKENING.
THERE IS ONE THING FOR EXPERIENTIALLY CERTAIN: THAT PIECE OF YOUR M[ND THAT YOU
CAN, AT ANY MOMENT, PULL APART FROM THE FLOW OF THOUGHTS, IS NOT — AND NOT SUBJECT TO BE — FOOLED OR CONFUSED.
ANY PART OF THE MIND THAT YOU CAN SEPARATE FROM THE THOUGHTS RUNNING THRU IT IS A PIECE OF WHAT ENLIGHTENMENT TRULY IS
AWARENESS WITHOUT INTERFERENCE: CONSCIOUSNESS WITHOUT INTERRUPTION: THIS IS ENLIGHTENMENT — THIS IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE THIS VERY INSTANT.
THINKING ABOUT IT WON’T DO IT, BUT KEEPING JUST ONE PART OF YOUR MIND FROM
DOING SO, WILL. BLESSED BE THE SIMPLE FOR THEY FINALLY “SEE”.
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THE WARRIOR WHO BECOMES MORE UNDERSTANDING OF THE BATTLEFIELD CONDITIONS
COMES TO REALIZE THAT HE IS NOT ACTUALLY IMPALED ON HIS OWN MIND,
BUT RATHER ON THE THOUGHTS THAT ARE NOT HIS OWN
WHICH WANT TO OCCUPY
HIS MIND.
THE UN-MOVING, UNENCUMBERED MIND YOU HAVE — WHICH IS REALLY YOUR OWN -IS :[N NO WISE THE IMPEDIMENT TO YOUR ENLIGHTENMENT,
BUT RATHER IT BE THE THOUGHTS IN IT — WHICH ARE NOT YOUR OWN —
AND FROM WHICH A CONSTANTLY ALERT MAN CAN SEPARATE HIS MIND.
THOSE PASSING, UNPREDICTABLE STATES CALLED, “ENLIGHTENMENT”
ARE HAD — EFFORTLESSLY,
BUT THE PLACING OF YOURSELF IN THE POSITION TO EXPERIENCE THESE STATES
ENTAIL CONSTANT EFFORT AND ATTENTION:
AND NOT ANY STRENUOUS OR MYSTERIOUS EFFORTS,
JUST EFFORT THAT IS PLAIN AND OBVIOUS.
AND THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT, FROM THE VIEW OF THOUGHTS, SO DOWN RIGHT ELUSIVE AND APPARENTLY CONFOUNDING.
BLESSED BE THOSE WHO,”KEEP-IT-SIMPLE”
FOR ONLY SIMPLICITY WILL SEE YOU THROUGH.
* * *
A BAND OF PEOPLE INTERESTED [N THE IDEA OF AWAKENING HAD A DISCUSSION GROUP TO WHICH THEY GAVE THE TITLE: “DISCUSSING IT WON’T HELP”.
THAT PART OF MENTAL ACTIVITY, ARTICULATING AN INTEREST IN THE IDEA OF AWAKENING, NEVER WILL.
FEET WHO WANT TO BE FREE OF THEIR OWN SOLES ARE IN FOR A FUTILE RUN.
ALTHOUGH A MAN, ONCE ENLIGHTENED, KNOWS THAT THERE IS NOTHING IN LIFE TO TAKE SERIOUSLY, OR THAT REQUIRES HIS ATTENTION,
HE STILL IS INCLINED TO TAKE HIS ENLIGHTENED OF THIS FACT, SO.
IN THE WORLD OF THOUGHT: IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO EVER FULLY “KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING’
* * *
ON THE REVERSE SIDE OF EVERY MAP OF AWAKENING IS AN EQUALLY VALID, OPPOSITE ONE.
IN THE WORLD OF WORDS: IT IS GRIEVOUS ERROR TO EVER BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN EVER FULLY UNDERSTAND THINGS THEY PURPORT TO REPRESENT.
THUS IT UNRECOGNIZED BE — THAT:
WHILE IT DOES SEEM POSSIBLE TO “EXPLAIN” THINGS,
IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU “UNDERSTAND” WHAT YOU HAVE EXPLAINED.
REMEMBER: THOUGHTS & WORDS HAVE NO ONE TO PLEASE OR ANSWER TO, BUT THEMSELVES.
TO BE INATTENTIVELY CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS SITUATION
IS TO BE DAZED, DOZING AND DECEIVED.-
— BUT ALL THAT’S NEEDED FOR FREEDOM FROM THE SITUATION
IS AN ABIDING, SILENT RECOGNITION THEREOF.
…IN OTHER WORDS, AGAIN: TO SEPARATE MIND FROM THOUGHTS.
* * *
OH – I’VE JUST BEEN HANDED AN IMPORTANT, LATE BREAKING STORY: STAND BY:
IT SAYS THAT YOU CAN IGNORE ALL THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN SAID ON TONIGHT’S BROADCAST — THAT THERE IS AN ENTIRELY OTHER WAY OF CONSIDERING THE MATTER UNDER
GENERAL CONSIDERATION THIS EVENING: THIS INSTANT BIT-OF=NEWS_ GOES ON TO SAY THAT, RATHER THAN PICTURING THAT YOU SPLIT OFF A PIECE OF THE MIND, APART FROM THE NORMAL FLOW OF THOUGHTS PASSING THRU IT, THAT YOU CAN PERCEIVE THE SITUATION AS BEING THAT WHAT YOU’RE REALLY DOING IN SUCH AN UNDERTAKING IS SIMPLY FOCUSING YOUR AWARENESS OF THAT PART OF THE BRAIN’S ROUTINE OPERATION THAT IS CONSTANTLY INVOLVED IN NON-VERBAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR PHYSICAL SURVIVAL.
PUT ANOTHER WAY: THAT PART OF THE M[ND WHICH YOU CAN APPARENTLY SPIN OFF, AND
SEPARATE FROM THE FLOW OF THOUGHTS, IS ACTUALLY THAT PART OF THE M[ND THAT IS ALWAYS THERE, ALREADY SEPARATE FROM THOUGHTS, WHICH IS ENDLESSLY INVOLVED IN ASSISTING YOUR OTHER SENSES IN KEEPING YOU ALIVE AND SAFE.
NOT SO MUCH A “NEW” FORM OF M[ND AS IT IS AN EXTENDED USE OF ITS PRESENT OPERATION.
EVERY MAP CONCERNING ENLIGHTENMENT, WHEN TURNED OVER, REVEALS, IN REVERSE, AN EQUALLY VALID ONE.
MORAL FOR THOSE SICK OF SLEEPING AND BEING BED-RIDDEN: EACH AND EVERY DAY YOU SHOULD, “TURN YOUR MIND OVER,
AND SEE WHAT’S ON THE OTHER SIDE.”