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THE NEWS FOR MARCH 17,1999
AS OPPOSED TO CERTAIN OTHER STORIES I’VE RELATED ON A SIMILAR THEME:
THERE IS THIS ONE MAN WHO FEELS AS THOUGH HE HAS A TAME, FRIENDLY DOG,
BUT ONE WHICH A PARTICULAR “GROUP OF ROWDIES” KEEPS ENTICING FROM HIS YARD: HE SAYS THAT IF HIS ATTENTION DRIFTS ONLY MOMENTARILY FROM THE DOG — BAM! HE’S OUT OF THE YARD AND HIDDEN AMIDST THAT CROWD OF ROWDIES.
YOU COULD SAY THAT EVERYONE’S “DOG-OF-ATTENTION” IS INDIVIDUALISTIC,
AND PERSONAL TO THEM SO LONG AS IT IS — IN THEIR YARD,
BUT THAT IF YOU DO NOT KEEP A CONSTANT EYE ON IT,
THERE IS A CONSTANT, EVERY-PRESENT FORCE,
(THE”GROUP-OF-ROWDIES” THAT IS THE COLLECTIVE CACHE OF HUMAN THOUGHTS),
WAITING JUST OUTSIDE YOUR YARD, AND WHICH,
IF YOUR DOG GOES OUTSIDE YOUR FENCE,
WILL INSTANTLY “TAKE HIM OVER”;_-_=_
AND LEAD HIS THINKING INTO TOTALLY MEANINGLESS & CIRCUITOUS PATTERNS:
AND LOOK NOT AT THIS SITUATION CRITICALLY,
FOR THE ROWDY, UNCONTROLLABLE DEPOSITORY OF COMMONLY AVAILABLE HUMAN IDEAS
IS DOING ONLY WHAT IT IS NATURALLY CREATED TO DO,
AND YOUR OWN DOG-OF-ATTENTION IS IN NO WISE ACTING UNNATURALLY,
IN THAT ITS INHERENT NATURE IS TO STRAY FROM THE YARD,
AND ITS INDIGENOUS CURIOSITY LEADS IT TO EASILY FALL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
FORCES OUTSIDE OF ITSELF._
SO —
IF FOR WHATEVER PERSONAL REASONS, YOU FIND THE ARRANGEMENT LESS THAN ACCEPTABLE
DON’T WASTE YOUR ENERGY IN FUTILE, FAULT-FINDING,
FOR IN TRUTH, THERE IS NO FAULT HEREIN, TO BE FOUND, (ONLY TO BE IMAGINED);
NO
TURN YOUR ATTENTION & EFFORTS TO THE MATTER OF SEEING PLAINLY THIS SITUATION FO
PRECISELY WHAT IT IS, (WHICH SHOULDN’T TAKE LONG),
AND THEN FIND A WAY TO KEEP YOUR DOG FROM STRAYING
IN-THE-KNOWLEDGE-THAT
IF IT DOES, IT WILL ALWAYS GET INSTANTLY EATEN-UP, TAKEN-OVER BY THE
EVER-WAITING, ROWDY CACHE OF COLLECTIVE-THOUGHT JUST OUTSIDE YOUR FENCE OF
PERSONAL ATTENTION, AND INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS.
YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE EN THIS SCENARIO WITH EVEN THE POTENTIAL TO EXERCISE
ANY CONTROL SUFFICIENT TO CHANGE IT: NOT THE CACHE OF COLLECTIVE THOUGHT, NOT
THF DOG-OF-ATTENTION IN ITS NATURAL STATE–ONLY YOU (IF YOU HAVE ONE).
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IF THERE IS ANY REALITY BEHIND THE COMMONLY HELD NOTION OF SOME, ALL-INCLUSIVE,
“BROTHERHOOD OF MAN” IT WOULD BE REFLECTED IN THIS STATEMENT
WITH WHICH ALL ORDINARY MEN WOULD READILY AGREE:
“WE ARE ALL HELPLESS VICTIMS OF — CIRCUMSTANCE.”,
BUT WHILE THEY, (THE ORDINARY, WHO WOULD SO SURELY AGREE),
HAVE IN THEIR MINDS, BEING A VICTIM OF EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCE,
THOSE-WHO-KNOW, INTERPRET THE STATEMENT AS POINTING TO CIRCUMSTANCES, INTERNALLY
— IN THE THINKING OF MAN — IN HAVING YOUR DOG-OF-ATTENTION
BEING IN THE HANDS OF THE ROWDIES JUST OUTSIDE YOUR YARD-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS.
TO TALK OF “PHYSICAL FREEDOM” IN THIS LIFE, IS PATENT FOOLISHNESS,
TO SPEAK OF”INTERNAL LIBERATION” IS EQUALLY FANCIFUL IF YOU LACK A DIRECT, PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING OF MAN’S MENTAL TOPOGRAPHY:
THE ENTIRE QUESTION OF, “FREEDOM” IS JUST BARELY SENSIBLE,
AND THEN SO, ONLY WHEN YOU SEE CLEARLY THE REALITY THAT GAVE RISE TO MEN’S WORDS OF, “FREEDOM” AND “CAPTIVITY”.
WHEN YOU CAN SEE WHAT’S GOING ON IN THIS MATTER,
IT IS NOT AS COMPLEX AS IT APPEARS TO DROWSY EYES:
NO, IT IS INDEED — QUITE SIMPLE:
IF THE DOG IS IN YOUR YARD — ALL IS WELL:
LET IT GET OUTSIDE, AND IT WILL DISAPPEAR AMIDST THE MEANINGLESS MUMBLES AND
MOVEMENTS OF THAT EVER-WAITING BAND OF ROWDIES,
THE IMPERSONAL, COLLECTIVE CACHE OF HUMAN THOUGHTS.
EVEN IF IT ULTIMATELY TURNS OUT THAT WE’RE ALL MECHANICAL & ROBOTIC,
AT LEAST MAKE THE MOVES YOU KNOW ARE POSSIBLE THAT SEEM TO SHIFT THE SOURCE
OF MANS’ MECHANICAL ENERGY
INTO YOUR OWN YARD
RATHER THAN LEAVING IT IN THE HANDS OF UNCOUTH “OUTSIDERS”.
…(THAT’S THE VERY LEAST AN INSIGHTFUL MAN WOULD DO.)
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IN CASE YOU’VE YET TO PUT IT TOGETHER LIKE THIS FOR YOURSELF, -CONSIDER ANOTHER DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IT IS TO, “BE ASLEEP”:
TO BE ASLEEP IS TO PASSIVELY ACCEPT THE MENTAL SELF-DECEPTION THAT LIFE,
THRU OUR BRAINS, FOISTS UPON US.
IF YOU LOSE YOUR — “PASSION FOR LIVING” THEN YOU 99039-3
ABANDON YOUR DESIRE TO AWAKEN.
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ONE EXTREMELY, MENTALLY ACTIVE MAN WOULD SOAK HIS UNDERPANTS IN COLD WATER EVERY MORNING, THEN PUT THEM ON WHILE STILL WET
SO AS TO REMIND HIMSELF OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE
PRIMARY & SECONDARY WORLDS HE COMMONLY INHABITED.
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DO YOUR RECOGNIZE THAT THE PLEASURE ORDINARY PEOPLE ORDINARILY GET FROM
THEIR THINKING COMES FROM THOUGHTS THEY HAVE WHICH RE-ENFORCE WHAT THEY
ALREADY THINK,
WHILE THE FEW RECEIVE THEIR THOUGHT-BASED PLEASURE ONLY FROM
THINKING THAT WHICH THEY HAVE NEVER THOUGHT BEFORE — AND WHICH, MAY IN FACT,
CONFLICT —
EVEN — DENY
THOUGHTS THEY HAVE PREVIOUSLY HAD AND EVEN PERHAPS, EMBRACED?!
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OKAY, YOU SAY YOU’RE STILL NOT SATISFIED: YOU SEZ YOU WANTS EVEN MORE FOR YOUR MENTAL MONEY, OKAY. YET ANOTHER. DESCRIPTION OF “BEING AWAKE”:
AN AWAKENED MAN IS AN ORDINARY MAN, JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT HE IS COMPLETELY AWARE OF THE MATTER.
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AS REGARDS MANY MATTERS IN MANS’ MENTALLY-CONTRIVED, “SECONDARY REALITY” WHEREIN HE CLAIMS AS FACT, MATTERS TOTALLY WITHOUT EVIDENCE,
(SUCH AS A BELIEF IN A SUPERNATURAL, EXTRA-SYSTEMIC FORCE, [A DEITY] WHO
TAKES A PERSONAL INTEREST IN YOUR AFFAIR, OR IN THE BELIEF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH) MEN HAPPILY ACCEPT THESE SELF-CONCOCTED FICTIONS AND FIND THEM TO BE MORE THAN “SUFFICIENT” FOR THE PURPOSE BEING SERVED:
NOW CONSIDER THAT FULLY FOR A MOMENT: THE THINKING OF ORDINARY, SANE MEN TAKING THE CONSPICUOUSLY, “NON-EXISTENT” AS BEING, “MORE THAN — SUFFICIENT”!!
WHAT THEN, (FOR THE AWAKENED IN THEIR MENTAL REALM), WOULD ACTUALLY BE, “SUFFICIENT”?! — NOT LESS THAN SUFFICIENT: NOT”MORE-THAN-SUFFICIENT”,(IN THAT IMAGINARY SENSE JUST NOTED REGARDING THE ORDINARY): WHAT WOULD BE “SUFFICIENT”, (PLAIN AND SIMPLE), IN THE THOUGHT-BASED WORLD OF”THOSE-WHO-KNOW”?!?!
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REGARDING: ELVIS AND THE ENLIGHTENED:
AT THE END OF EACH DAY
WOULDN’T IT BE NICE TO — BE ABLE TO SAY:
“MY SELF-DECEPTION HAS — LEFT THE BUILDING!”
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AFTER MANY YEARS OF: FASTING, PRAYING, CHANTING, SITTING, READING, LISTENING,
AND PONDERING,
ONE MAN UNEXPECTEDLY HAD A SUDDEN AND CURIOUS IDEA:
“IF I DIDN’T THINK — I COULD NOT, ‘DECEIVE MYSELF’.”,
…I SAID THE NOTION WAS UNEXPECTED, BUT COME ON NOW:
IT CAN’T BY NOW, BE ALL THAT SURPRISING.
…( I GUESS THAT IT IS ITS OBVIOUSNESS
THAT MAKES IT SO DIFFICULT TO PLAINLY SEE,,,,AND THEN BELIEVE THAT
WHAT YOU SO PLAINLY SAW — YOU ACTUALLY — SAW !!
YOU SEE: THE REASON THAT MAN’S MIND HAS THIS APPARENT “DIFFICULTY”
IN RECOGNIZING “THE TRUTH” ABOUT THINGS IS THAT IT DEALS SOLELY IN THOUGHT,
AND THE TRUTH CAN ONLY BE SEEN WHEN THOUGHT IS NOT PRESENT.
SO YOU CAN FORGET ALL IDEAS OF GODS OR DEMONS CLOUDING MEN’S MINDS
AND HIDING THE TRUTH FROM THEM FOR SOME REASON,
OR EVEN OF THE NOTION THAT MAN, SOME WHERE IN THE PAST,
SOME HOW MADE A WRONG TURN AND TOOK HIMSELF AWAY FROM “THE TRUTH”
AHH! — YOU CAN FORGET ALL EXPLANATIONS SUCH AS THOSE,
AND SIMPLY SEE FOR YOURSELF THAT IT IS ONLY THE NATURAL OPERATIONS & LIMITATIONS
OF THE MIND WHICH, UNREALIZED BY THE MIND, WHICH STAND BETWEEN IT & “THE TRUTH”
…WHICH. SHOULD ACTUALLY BE. SAID AS:” IT IS THAT WHICH CAUSES THE MIND TO
BELIEVE THAT
SOMETHING “STANDS BETWEEN IT AND ‘THE TRUTH’.”
• • [IS THIS OR IS THIS NOT A GOOD PLACE FOR ME TO ONCE AGAIN PRESENT YOU WITH THE RHETORICAL INQUIRY: “NEAT, HUH?!])
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REMINDER: NO MATTER HOW “LOGICAL”(BY THEIR OWN DEFINITION) MAY BE YOUR THINKING PROCESSES, AND REGARDLESS OF THEIR APPARENT, DESERVED – CONCLUSIONS, THERE IS ALWAYS PRESENT: “AN IGNORED FACTOR — AN OVERLOOKED CONNECTION”., …WHICH ONLY THE ENLIGHTENED EVER PERCEIVE…SINCE THEIR EYES & MINDS ARE
BLANK AND FILLED WITH — NOTHING. (THUS, NO MISTAKES OR DECEPTIONS ARE POSSIBLE)