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THE NEWS FOR FEBRUARY 8, 1999
QUESTION: WHAT IS WORSE THAN,”BEATING A DEAD HORSE”?–ANSWER: BELIEVING THAT YOU ARE STILL RIDING IT.
QUESTION: WHAT IS WORSE THAN BEING IGNORANT? -ANSWER: BELIEVING THAT OTHERS MAY NOT BE EQUALLY SO.
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THOSE WHO DO NOT RECOGNIZE AND UNDERSTAND THAT LIFE ITSELF IS ALIVE,
AND THAT MAN IS BUT AN INTERNAL PART THEREOF,
ARE FOREVER CONFUSED AND LOST IN AN INTERNAL MENTAL WOODS FROM WHICH FEW EVER ESCAPE …P.S.: TALKING ABOUT IT ACCOMPLISHES NOTHING.
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UPDATE & EXPANSION OF A STORY WE PREVIOUSLY COVERED: AS HE WAS READING OVER HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, A MAN MUSED: “MOST OF THIS SOUNDS STRANGELY LIKE FICTION TO ME.”
HINT # 143/T-14:
YOU ARE GETTING CLOSER WHEN THE MERE SIGHT OF THE SYMBOLIC INK MARKINGS LAID DOWN ON THE PAGES OF BOOKS MAKES YOU QUEASY AND UNEASY.
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THE NON-PHYSICAL “HELPING” OF OTHER PEOPLE IS TOTALLY A TALKING GAME: ONE PERSON TALKS TO ANOTHER PERSON ABOUT THEIR PROBLEM,
THEN ASKS THE OTHER PERSON: “DID I HELP?”,
AND THE OTHER PERSON REPLIES: “YES.”,
AND GOES AWAY HAPPY FOR A MOMENT.
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AS OPPOSED TO ROUTINE THINKERS’ AND PHILOSOPHERS’ POSTULATIONS THAT
THE ONLY LIFE “WELL SPENT” IS ONE IN WHICH A MAN STRUGGLES TO UNDERSTAND, “THE MEANING OF LIFE”,
THE CLEAR-HEADED REALITY OF THE MATTER FOR THE FEW IS THAT THE ONLY LIFE, WELL_SPENT IS THE ONE IN WHICH THEIR CONSCIOUSNESS AWAKENS TO THE PLAIN AND OBVIOUS FACT THAT THERE IS NO DISCERNIBLE “MEANING TO LIFE” OTHER THAN TO LIVE II
THE REALIZATION OF THIS, DOWN TO THE MARROW IN YOUR BONES,
IS THE ONLY FREEDOM THAT IS WORTHY OF THE WORD.
TO SUSTAIN MAN’S MENTALLY BASED, SECONDARY SENSE OF LIFE, CONSTANT SELF-DECEIT IS NECESSARY. WHEN YOU FORGET THAT”LIFE AS ALIVE” YOU WILL ATTRIBUTE TO MAN A
VARIETY OF ILLUSIONARY ABILITIES & WILL ALSO CONDEMN HIM FOR A MULTITUDE OF CONTRIVED TRANSGRESSIONS.
UPDATE & EXPANSION OF A STORY PREVIOUSLY UPDATED & EXPANDED:
AS ONE MAN HEARD HIMSELF TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF HE SUDDENLY THOUGHT TO HIMSELF: “MOST OF THIS SOUNDS AS THOUGH I AM TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE WITH WHOM I AM NOT PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED.”
..(NOW HE IS BEGINNING TO CATCH ON).
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ONE MAN COULD PRODUCE BRAND NEW PARABLES & ALLEGORIES JUST AS FAST AS HE COULD
WRITE:
THOSE WHO OBSERVED THIS CONSIDERED IT TO BE A MARVELOUS “TALENT” — HE ULTIMATELY SAW IT AS SOMETHING LESS.
…(ARE YOU BEGINNING TO CATCH ON?)
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FACE IT: THE MIND PLAINLY FINDS IT BORING, (IF NOT DOWNRIGHT FRUSTRATING),
TO NOT BE RANDOMLY ENGAGED IN THINKING:
EVEN A BUDDHA’S MIND WOULD BY NATURE, RATHER BE TOTALLY IMMERSED IN MEANINGLESS,
MEANDERING THOUGHT THAN TO BE STILL, SILENT AND AWAKE.
….(KINDA BRINGS IT ALL BACK DOWN TO TERRA FIRMA, HUH?!)
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TELL ME PLEASE: WHAT KIND OF “INTELLIGENCE” IS INVOLVED IN THOSE WHO PROFESS,
AND ARE ACCEPTED AS BEING “INTELLIGENT”: WHO
‘PRESENT AS PROOF OF THEIR INTELLIGENCE THE QUOTING OF OTHERS?!
A CASE OF: SHADOWS STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF ILLUSIONS.
SUPPLEMENTAL HINT:
YOU ARE BEGINNING TO CATCH ON WHEN EVERYTHING YOU HEAR BEGINS TO SOUND LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE YOU’VE HEARD.
ALTHOUGH THE IMAGINARY REALM OF THE MIND IS UNLIMITED
MEN SEEM NOT GIVEN — OR ABLE TO — AVAIL THEMSELVES FULLY THEREOF.
….ONLY THOSE WHO FINALLY GRASP THE ESSENCE OF THE MIND ARE SO CAPABLE — THEN,”ALL-BETS-ARE-OFF”, AND,
ALL GAMES ARE OVER.
…(IS THAT THEN: “WELCOME HOME”, OR, “WELCOME BACK” NO MATTER,
WHEN YOU REACH THAT STAGE OF AWARENESS, (AS I JUST NOTED), EVERYTHING YOU HEAR AND THINK SOUNDS LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE.
IN THE REALM OF THE IMAGINARY EXISTS NO DISTINCTIONS. …(NOW THAT MUST BE CLEAR TO EVEN THE MOST RELUCTANT.)
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NO MAN CAN CLAIM TO BE A “MYSTIC” WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN:
GODS, GHOSTS, FLYING SAUCERS, ALIEN BEINGS, MAGICAL POWERS, SECRET KNOWLEDGE, HEROES & SUPERMEN:
NO MAN EVER EXPERIENCES THE REALITY OF BEING A MYSTIC WHO DOES NOT GET OVER SAME
THE INCREDIBLE ABILITIES OF THOUGHTS CAN INFINITELY BEDAZZLE & BAMBOOZLE THE ORDINARY,
BUT FOR THE CLEAR-HEADED FEW, NOTHING RIVALS THE WONDER OF REALIZING THAT, “LIFE IS ALIVE” AND MAN BUT ALONG FOR THE RIDE.
WHAT KIND OF”ACHIEVEMENT”OR”FREEDOM”IS IT TO, “BELIEVE-IN”
AND THUS BE, CAPTURED-BY — ANYTHING YOU MIGHT THINK OR HAVE ADOPTED FROM THE THINKING OF OTHERS?! —
SUCH IS NO FREEDOM, SUCH IS NO “PROGRESS” OR ACHIEVEMENT:
TO BE AWAKE, TO BE ENLIGHTENED, TO BE LIBERATED, IS TO HAVE A CONSCIOUSNESS THAT IS NOT LITTERED WITH SUCH USELESS JUNK AND REFUSE THAT SHOULD HAVE LONG AGO BEEN DISCARDED AND ABANDONED.
“BELIEF” IS JUST ANOTHER ROUTINE SYNONYM FOR, “IGNORANCE” AND SLEEP.
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IN HIS THOUGHTS, ONE MAN HELD A CERTAIN DECEASED FIGURE TO BE HIS “HERO”, AND IMAGINED IN HIS DAY DREAMS OF HOW PROFITABLE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
HAD HE BEEN CONTEMPORANEOUSLY ALIVE AND ABLE TO HAVE QUESTIONED HIS HERO ABOUT THE MANY DEEP, DARK MYSTERIES THAT TROUBLED HIS MIND.
BUT THEN A DAY CAME WHEN THE MAN’S UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE BEGAN TO RIPEN
AND CLARIFY, AND HE GRADUALLY REALIZED THAT IF HE HAD BEEN ALIVE AND ABLE TO
QUESTION THE PAST FIGURE HE SO REVERED,,
AND HAD THIS FIGURE OF REVERENCE RESPONDED TO HIS QUESTIONS
THIS PERFORCE WOULD HAVE DESTROYED HIS POSITION OF, “HERO”.
THE SIMPLE FACT IS THIS: ALL OF THE MANY HEROES WORSHIPED & REVERED BY MAN
ARE NOTHING OTHER THAN THE THOUGHTS WITHIN HIS OWN MIND,
AND INDEED, (AT ONE LEVEL),
THEY ARE TRULY WORTHY OF ADMIRATION FOR THEIR SINGULAR TALENTS,
BUT THEN AT ANOTHER LEVEL,(‘KNOWN ONLY TO A FEW),
THOUGHTS LOSE THEIR CAPACITY TO MASQUERADE AS GODS, HEROES AND SUPERMEN,
AND NO LONGER IS A MAN DECEIVED AS TO THEIR ACTUAL REALITY, (SUCH AS IT IS).
AND I PRESENT TO YOU ONCE MORE THIS QUERY:
WHAT ELSE COULD AN AWAKE MAN BE OTHER THAN A PERSON WHO NO LONGER: ATTEMPTS THE IMPOSSIBLE, OR PURSUES THE IMAGINARY?!
AWAKENED CONSCIOUSNESS HAS NO HEROES,
FOR IT CLEARLY SEES LIFE ITSELF AS ONLY THAT WORTHY OF ADMIRATION & AWE,
AND FEELS OBJECTIVE GRATITUDE FOR IT PERMITTING AN IN-DEPTH VIEW OF ITS NATURE.
…NEVER REALIZED [N THIS ENTIRE UNIVERSE, BUT FOR A PRECIOUS FEW, IS THE FACT THAT WHENEVER MEN SAY: “THANK YOU GOD.”,
THEY ARE UNKNOWINGLY EXPRESSING THEIR APPRECIATION AND SUBMISSION TO – THOUGHT.
AWAKENING TO THE OBJECTIVE REALITY OF LIFE IS NOT A THING, OVERLY FANTASTIC, NOR IS IT A THING, OVERLY MUNDANE —
NO, IT IS A THING — JUST RIGHT!, (THANK YOU MISS GOLDILOCKS)
NO ONE IF FREE WHO BELIEVES :[N THE WORDS AND IDEAS OF OTHERS -….SAME REGARDING HIS OWN.
NOW GET OUTTA HERE AND GO BACK TO THE WOODS, YOU OLD BEARS YOU.