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THE NEWS FOR FEBRUARY 13, 1999
IN THE CEASELESS STREAM OF THOUGHTS,
“I WANT TO AWAKEN” IS BUT ONE THOUGHT AMIDST A MULTITUDE —
ONE WHICH PERIODICALLY POPS TO THE SURFACE GIVING PLEASURE TO THE MYSTICALLY INCLINED.
….WHAT D’YA HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT
OR – LET’S CARRY THIS EVEN FURTHER:
THE THOUGHT THAT SAYS: “I WANT TO STOP THOUGHT”,
IS AFTER ALL, JUST ONE MORE THOUGHT AMONG ALL YOUR OTHER THOUGHTS. …SO WHAT D’YA SAY ABOUT THAT?’
MIGHT THE HUNGER TO “AWAKEN” BE NO MORE THAN A DESIRE TO HAVE THAT THOUGHT THAT SAYS, “I WANT TO STOP THOUGHT.”, BECOME YOUR SOLE, PERMANENT-THOUGHT?! …SHOULD I BE SO BOLD AS TO INQUIRE INTO YOUR FEELINGS CONCERNING THAT,ONE?
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AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE ACCIDENTALLY STUMBLED INTO THE SUBJECT OF “THOUGHTS”,
ONE OF OUR CORRESPONDENTS WRITES AS FOLLOWS:
“IS THE ‘PROBLEM’ ACTUALLY WITH: THOUGHTS, (THE OBJECTS),
OR WITH: THINKING, (THE ACTIVITY)?” (END QUOTE),
THE GENTLEMAN ASKS A QUESTION THAT INVOLVES A “DIFFERENCE-WITHOUT-A-DISTINCTION”,
WHICH I MIGHT NOTE IS A REVERSAL OF THE USUAL CLICHE,
WHICH I MIGHT FURTHER NOTE, CONTRASTS TWO WORDS WHICH ARE IN FACT,
SYNONYMS TO BEGIN WITH —
SO! — WHAT DIFFERENCE CAN IT MAKE IF I REVERSE THEM?!
…AND NEED I REMIND YOU THAT THIS WHOLE AFFAIR OF, “Waking UP” ETC, IS ABOUT NOTHING MORE THAN THE SUBJECT OF, “THOUGHT”….OR IS THAT:
THE ACTIVITY OF, “THINKING” OR….AH!,WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE ANY WAY?!
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AS HE COUGHED & CHOKED AFTER TOO QUICKLY TRYING TO CONSUME A BEVERAGE, A MAN SO CAUTIONED HIMSELF: “DON’T GULP WHEN YOU DRINK!”,
AND WAS IMMEDIATELY STRUCK THUS: “I SHOULD APPLY THIS SAME WARNING TO HOW I THINK THE THOUGHTS I THINK.”
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AND ANOTHER CORESPONDENT INTRODUCES THIS QUESTION: “WHEN YOU SPEAK, IF YOU DO NOT PRONOUNCE EVERY SYLLABLE IN EVERY WORD
DOES THAT MEAN THAT YOU’RE NOT LISTENING TO WHAT YOU’RE SAYING? — ….IS THAT WHY, ‘MECHANICAL TALK” SOUNDS SO — MECHANICAL?!”
AND ONE CHAP HAS DEVELOPED, AND NOW LIVES IN LIGHT OF, WHAT HE CALLS:
“THE PHOOEY FACTOR”,
WHEREBY WHENEVER HE CATCHES HIMSELF ENTERTAINING A SERIOUS OR CRITICAL THOUGHT, HE SAYS TO HIMSELF: “AH — PHOOEY WITH IT!”
AND STILL ANOTHER FELLOW ASKS:
“JUST HOW MANY DIFFERENT WAYS CAN YOU THINK AND RE-THINK THE SAME IDEA?
OR: HOW MANY DIFFERENT IDEAS CAN YOU THINK ABOUT IN THE SAME WAY?”,
WHICH MAKES ME WANT TO ASK YOU:”WHICH OF HIS TWO QUESTIONS WAS THE BETTER?”
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YOU AND YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES ARE ONE, AND
ONLY YOUR THOUGHTS SEPARATE YOU THEREFROM…. ….IN YOUR MIND, THAT IS,
FOR OBVIOUSLY — INDEED — THEY CANNOT DO SO PHYSICALLY, (NOW CAN THEY
…[AND ONLY THE AWAKENED, TO THAT, KNOW THE CORRECT RESPONSE].)
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IN A MYSTICAL MONASTERY, A YOUNG MONK ASKED THE ELDER, HEAD OF THE ORDER: “WHY DO SOME WHO HAVE COME HERE FOR MANY YEARS TO HEAR YOU SPEAK ON THAT, ‘CERTAIN MATTER’, AND WHO SEEMED TO BE BENEFITTING THEREFROM,
SUDDENLY ONE DAY, CEASE ATTENDING?”, AND THE ELDER REPLIED:
“THERE ARE TWO POSSIBILITIES: ONE IS THAT THEY BECAME MORE AWAKE THAN ME: THE OTHER IS THAT THEY WERE GETTING SO CLOSE TO THEM BECOMING MORE AWAKE THAT IT BECAME INTOLERABLY DISTURBING.”
…DO YOU REALIZE THAT ONLY THE ENLIGHTENED CAN SIT AROUND AND FREELY TALK ABOUT HOW TOTALLY, BIOLOGICALLY CAPTIVE MAN ACTUALLY IS?!
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AWAKENED, LIBERATED CONSCIOUSNESS IS LIKE A BALL FLOATING ON A STREAM -IT IS NOW UNSINKABLE
YET STILL AT THE MERCY OF THE WATER.
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ONE MAN HAS COME UP WITH HIS OWN PERSONAL, LIVING DICTUM
WHICH HE SILENTLY DIRECTS TO HIMSELF:
“I DON’T WANT TO BUY ANYTHING,
AND I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING,
AND I FOR SURE MYSELF DON’T HAVE ANYTHING TO — SELL OR TO SAY.”
AND THERE’S THIS OTHER GUY OVER THERE WHO SAYS:
“INVOLUNTARY THOUGHTS ARE RUNNING AND RUINING MY CONSCIOUSNESS.”
,,,(ARE WE BACK TO THAT AGAIN?! — WE’RE ALWAYS “BACK-TO-THAT” AGAIN
IN THE LIFE OF THOSE SEEKING THAT CERTAIN FREEDOM,
THERE IS NO WHERE ELSE TO “GO-BACK-TO”, BUT TO THE SUBJECT OF THE MIND, AND FOR THAT MATTER: THERE IS NO WHERE ELSE TO GO TO,
BUT TO THE SUBJECT OF THE MIND.
WERE IT NOT FOR THE MIND: THE FEW WOULD NOT SLEEP,
AND WERE IT NOT FOR THE MIND, THE FEW COULD NEVER AWAKE,
AND WERE IT NOT FOR THE MIND, I COULD NOT BE SAYING THESE FOOLISH WORDS
WHICH MEAN SO MUCH TO THE FEW.
…(I ASK YOU: AREN’T WE FEW AN ABSOLUTE RIOT”‘
…[A TRUE, “BARREL-OF-LAUGHS”AND OTHER ASSORTED ABSURDITIES,
(AND WHO AMONG US WOULD HAVE IT — ANY OTHER WAY?!)])
WHEN YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS IS COMPLETELY “CAUGHT-UP-IN-THOUGHT”
YOU ARE NEEDLESSLY DROWNING IN A RIVER OF MEANINGLESS COMMENTARY.
IN YOUR NEXT LIFE, AS THEY REVIVE YOU FROM THIS ONE,
THEY WILL PUMP YOUR LUNGS AND DISCOVER THAT YOU DIED FROM, “MENTAL SERIOUSNESS” …AND I ASK YOU: IS THAT NOT A SAD, SAD, SAD AND FOOLISH, “WAY TO GO””‘ …MUCH BETTER IT BE,(I SAY), TO “FLAME-OUT” AMIDST A BLAZING BALL OF,”FULLY AWAKENED ABSURDITIES”
….YEAH, THERE’S YOUR TICKET.