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THE NEWS FOR JANUARY 29,1999
MORE ABOUT: HOW IT GOES ON A CIVILIZED PLANET:
THE MASS OF MEN PLAY AROUND WITH BEHAVIOR:
THE INTELLECTUALS & WOULD-BE LEADERS PLAY AROUND WITH WORDS:
THE FEW PLAY AROUND WITH THE IDEA OF SOMEHOW “GETTING FREE” FROM ALL OF THE
UNIMPORTANT & MERCURIAL — PLAYING AROUND.
ONE MAN HAS DECIDED THAT THE KEY TO THE WHOLE “ESCAPE EFFORT” IS SIMPLY TO BE ALWAYS — “SILENTLY WATCHING” —
HE SAYS THAT NOTHING MORE IS REQUIRED.
“AND YOU KNOW”, REMARKED ANOTHER MAN,
“IT’S FUNNY HOW,
AFTER YOU HAVE FOR SO LONG,
STRUGGLED WITH THIS ‘CERTAIN MATTER’,
HOW YOUR PERSONAL CONCEPTS OF WHAT IS ‘SERIOUS’,
AND WHAT IS JUST, ‘PLAYING AROUND’
UNDERGO A DISTINCT THOUGH GRADUAL ALTERATION.
…IT’S ALMOST AS IF YOUR MOST DEEP-ROOTED PERCEPTIONS OF WHAT IS MEANINGFUL
TO THE EXISTENCE OF MAN AND WHAT IS THOROUGHLY WITHOUT LASTING SIGNIFICANCE
HAVE BECOME REVERSED FROM THOSE PROFESSED BY ORDINARY MINDS.
WHY WOULD A BOY ON THE BEACH, WHO WANTS TO “GET DRY” CONTINUE TO DART BACK INTO THE WAVES?!
….WHAT’S THE POINT?! WHY DOES HE KEEP DOING THIS IN LIGHT OF HIS INTENTION?!
…DOES THE WATER AT THE EDGE OF OUR DRY CONSCIOUS HAVE SOME,
“MAGICAL ATTRACTION” AGAINST WHICH THE MIND CAN SCARCE RESIST?!
THEN WHAT ABOUT THAT MAN’S CLAIM THAT ALL YOU NEED DO TO REMOVE YOURSELF FROM THIS NON-TANGIBLE,ENTANGLING CIRCUMSTANCE IS TO ALWAYS BE:
“SILENTLY WATCHING”?!
WHAT IF, (JUST PONDER AS A MOMENTARY, HARMLESS LITTLE MENTAL DIVERSION),
WHAT IF THE EFFORT TO FREE ONESELF FROM THE ROUTINE CONDITION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
IS A: GOAL WITHOUT A PREMISE…A TARGET WITHOUT AN ARROW…
A DESTINATION WITHOUT A GENUINE PLACE OF DEPARTURE?!
IF THAT WERE SO, WOULD IT NOT HELP EXPLAIN THE, (SHALL WE SAY),
“EMBARRASSING DIFFICULTIES” THAT SEEM SO INHERENT IN THIS ENDEAVOR?!
A DREAMER-IN-PRISON CAN NEVER BE FREE UNTIL HE REALIZES THAT THE PRISON IS A DREAM
…WHAT IF ALL THAT’S NEEDED IS A CONSTANT) “SILENT-WATCHING-OF”
ALL THE EVERYDAY, “PLAYING AROUND” THAT IS THE SECONDARY LIFE & REALITY OF MAN?! …IS TRUE, TRANSCENDENTAL “FREEDOM” NO MORE THAN – CLEAR, SILENT I-SIGHT?!
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MEN OF ORDINARY INTELLIGENCE NEVER UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF WHAT THEIR MINDS HAVE LABELED AS, “INTELLIGENCE”:
THOSE WHOSE CONSCIOUSNESS LIVES AND DIES BY THOUGHTS CAN NEVER SEE THE REALITY OF WHAT THOUGHTS REPRESENT — WHICH IS A MENTALLY-INVENTED, “SECONDARY REALITY” DISTINCT FROM THE PHYSICAL, PRIMARY ONE.
THUS BE THAT TROUBLESOME SITUATION WHICH CAUSES THOSE WHO
BELIEVE THEY ARE IMPRISONED — EVEN WHEN THE PLACE OF CONFINEMENT IS IMAGINARY –
TO STAY — “IMPRISONED”….
….SO OBVIOUSLY, (UNDER SUCH CONDITIONS),
WHAT IS NEEDED BY THOSE WHO ERRONEOUSLY BELIEVE THEY ARE IMPRISONED
IS THE LIBERATING INFORMATION THAT THEIR PRISON IS NOT REAL….
THE PROBLEM IS IN
GETTING SUCH INFORMATION TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE THEMSELVES SO IMPRISONED.
…IT BEING A TOTALLY, MENTALLY IMAGINED PLACE OF CONFINEMENT
IS WHAT RESULTS IN THAT PREVIOUSLY NOTED, “EMBARRASSING DIFFICULTY”
ONE SEEMS TO CONTINUALLY EXPERIENCE IN THEIR EFFORT TO ESCAPE.THEREFROM.
IS THIS AT THE ROOT OF THE ANCIENT, OFT-REPEATED DESCRIPTION OF AN ENLIGHTENED MAN
AS BEING LIKE A “ROCK”
…AN UNMOVING, NON-REACTIVE BOLDER, JUST SITTING THERE, “SILENTLY WATCHING”,
AND IMPERSONALLY — “TAKING IT ALL IN”
LETTING THE REALITY-OF-THINGS – NOT HIS COMMENTS-ABOUT-THEM —FLOW FREELY THROUGH HIM.
THE ULTIMATE, AND ONLY POSSIBLE — FREEDOM!, FREEDOM FROM MENTAL CAPTIVITY — AND FINALLY:
FREEDOM FROM YOUR MISTAKEN CONCEPTION OF WHAT FREEDOM IS POSSIBLE FOR MAN.
YES SIR, THERE’S NOTHING LIKE: STANDING BACK AWAY FROM THAT ‘THING’, AND JUST SILENTLY WATCHING IT, WEAVE-ITS-WORK.
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QUERY: HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU DESCRIBE A CERTAIN THING BEFORE IT REARS LIP,
AND BITES YOUR HEAD OFF? OR HOW ABOUT THIS: HOW MANY THOUGHTS CAN YOU
HAVE ABOUT A THING BEFORE YOU RUN OUT OF THOUGHTS TA_AltYOU CAR HAVE ABOUT THE THING?
HE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE NATURE OF THOUGHT CANNOT BE, CAPTIVE HELD.
…THERE’S NOTHING LEFT TO HOLD HIM.
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THERE EXISTS NOW AN UNKNOWN VERSION OF THE “TAR BABY” SAGA
IN WHICH A MAN UNWITTINGLY ATTACKS A FIGURE THAT IS IN TRUTH,
AN INANIMATE OBJECT MADE OF A STICKY SUBSTANCE WHICH,
THE MORE THE MAN STRUGGLED WITH IT — THE MORE WAS HE TRAPPED BY IT,
BUT THE TALE I REFER TO TAKES PLACES ENTIRELY IN A MAN’S MIND,
WITH THERE BEING NO “CHARACTERS-IN-CONFLICT”
SAVE THOSE PRESENT & INDIGENOUS TO HIS WORLD OF THOUGHT.
SO, AGAIN I ASK YOU: WHAT BETTER DESCRIPTION CAN THERE BE FOR A
TRULY PERCEPTIVE MAN, MUCH LESS ONE, “AWAKE”, THAN TO SAY THAT HE HAS: NO INTEREST IN THE IMPROBABLE,
AND ATTEMPTS NOT, THE IMPOSSIBLE.
WHAT SUPERIOR FREEDOM CAN THERE BE THAN: FREEDOM FROM STUPIDITY?!– NO,
MAKE THAT:
WHAT GREATER FREEDOM CAN THERE BE THAN: FREEDOM FROM THE ILLUSIONS OF STUPIDITY?! …FOR THE ONLY MANIFESTATION OF “STUPIDITY” AVAILABLE TO MAN IS THAT WHICH IS
GROUNDED-IN-THOUGHT
…AND YOU ALL BY NOW, CLEARLY RECOGNIZE WHAT CONSTITUTES THE SUBSTANCE OF THOUGHT
….RIGHT”‘ OKAY THEN: YOU’RE — “FREE TO GO”.
…SEND IN THE NEXT PRISONER.