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THE NEWS FOR MARCH 22, 1999
JUST AS THE EXAMINATION WAS BEGINNING, A CERTAIN PATIENT SAID TO THE DOCTOR: “YOU MUST PROMISE ME THAT IF I’M GOING TO LIVE — YOU WON’T TELL ME.”
‘TIS ALLEGED THAT ONCE LONG AGO; ONE ENLIGHTENED MAN ANNOUNCED THAT THE BEST THING ABOUT BECOMING ENLIGHTENED IS THAT AFTER THAT — YOU HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITIES.
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THE MATTER OF ORDINARY MEN BEING INTERESTED IN WHY THEY HAVE PARTICULAR THOUGHT
COMPARED TO THE AWAKENED, AS HIGHLIGHTED BY THE DIFFERENT ATTITUDES MEN,
AND WOMEN HAVE TOWARD UNEXPECTED ATTENTION THEY RECEIVE FROM ONE ANOTHER:,
WHEN A MAN FINDS HIMSELF THE FOCUS OF AMOROUS INTENTIONS
FROM A WOMAN OF A TYPE THAT HE WOULD NEVER HAVE ANTICIPATED,
HE WILL BECOME DEEPLY INVOLVED IN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY HE HAS BECOME
THE SUBJECT OF SUCH AN UNFORESEEN EVENT, WHEREAS
IF A WOMAN FINDS HER SELF AT THE CENTER OF SUCH A SIMILAR SITUATION
SHE WILL JUST BLITHE-FULLY ACCEPT IT WITH NO ATTEMPTED ANALYSIS THEREOF.
SUCH IS AN AWAKENED PERSON’S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE UNPLANNED THOUGHTS THAT PASS THRU HIM, AND ALSO TOWARD THE OVERALL MATTER OF — BEING ALIVE.
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ONE DAY, ONE MAN FOUND HIMSELF SO SUDDENLY AND MOMENTARILY HAPPY THAT
HE SAID TO HIMSELF: “WHICH IS THE BEST: THE JOY OF BEING ALIVE AT THE MOMENT,
OR THE PLEASURE IN THE EXPECTATIONS YOU HAVE OF FUTURE TIMES? “,
AFTER A SECOND, HE THEN ANSWERED, (SORT OF), HIS OWN QUESTION THUS:
“BUT ARE THEY BOTH NOT DELIGHTS TO BE SAVORED? WHY LIMIT YOURSELF TO EITHER?
…PLUS: HOW MUCH CONTROL DOES A MAN HAVE REGARDING WHICH OF THE TWO
POSSIBILITIES MAY TAKE OVER HIS INSTANT ATTENTION?’ “,
THE MAN THEN,(AFTER A BIT MORE OF APPARENT PONDERING), DECIDED TO GIVE A NAME TO HIS EFFORTS TO AWAKEN & UNDERSTAND LIFE MORE FULLY, THE NAME WAS:
“ROLL WITH IT.”….IS THAT NOT AN ENGAGING & EXPLICATIVE SOBRIQUET FOR THIS WINSOME AFFAIR?…”ROLL WITH IT.”; HOW MUCH BETTER CAN THE MATTER BE DESCRIBED?
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TO AN AWAKENED MAN, PATRIOTISM & LOVE-OF-HOMELAND AMOUNTS TO THIS:
“I AM WHERE I AM MOST HAPPY.” (AND YOU DO REALIZE THAT I AM NOT ACTUALLY
TAKING ABOUT NATIONS & ONE’S PHYSICAL LOCATION?!)
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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ORDINARY TRUCK TUMBLING OFF A CLIFF, AND DOWN AN EMBANKMENT AND AN ENLIGHTENED ONE IN THE SAME SITUATION? -THE ORDINARY TRUCK WILL BE THINKING, AS IT TUMBLES:
“OH MY GOD — WHY AM I, ‘TUMBLING-DOWN-THIS-HILL?!”,
WHILE THE ENLIGHTENED ONE WILL BE SAYING NOTHING ABOUT THE AFFAIR, BUT SIMPLY ENJOYING THE MOMENTARY — INEVITABLE RIDE.
THE BODY HAS, (AT EVERY GIVEN SECOND), THE POTENTIAL TO BE DAMN-NEAR, DELIRIOUSLY HAPPY OVER JUST BEING ALIVE — AND,
THE MIND OF AN AWAKENED MAN ALSO HAS SUCH A NON-PHYSICAL POTENTIAL TO BE GREATLY PLEASED AT EVERY INSTANT TO SIMPLY — BE ALIVE — IF:
IT IS NOT AT THE MOMENT, SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT THE MATTER, (OF, “BEING ALIVE”)
NOTE: WHEN SUCH IS YOUR STATE OF MIND,
THE CHANCES FOR YOUR BODY & ENTIRE BEING TO EXPERIENCE THE SIMPLE ENJOYMENT OF BEING ALIVE
ARE MUCH, MUCH IMPROVED.
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A COMMON CLICHE, CORRECTED FOR THE EDIFICATION OF THE FEW: THERE ARE NO ‘DUMB” QUESTIONS — ONLY, “STUPID” ANSWERS.
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ONE MAN HAD A BOOK OF WORLD RENOWNED QUOTATIONS, WHICH HE WOULD LAY ON HIS DESK AND
STARE AT
IN AMAZEMENT.
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THROUGH MEMORIES, THE MIND CAN BREATHE LIFE AGAIN INTO THAT WHICH IS LIFELESS: AN ABILITY AND PROCLIVITY WHICH THE ENLIGHTENED SIMPLY — LOATHE-E-E.
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TO BE “AWAKE” IS TO BE “FREE”:
FREE FIRST FROM THE NEED FOR OTHER PEOPLE:
THEN FREE FROM BEING INFLUENCED BY THE IDEAS OF OTHER PEOPLE,
AND LASTLY: TO BE FREE FROM ATTACHMENT TO THE IDEAS PASSING THRU YOU.
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ABOVE THE ENTRANCE TO AN ALLEGED SCHOOL OF ENLIGHTENMENT WAS A SIGN THAT SAID: “IF YOU, ‘FEEL-LIKE-YOU-SHOULD’ — THEN, YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO — ‘DO IT’!”
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A MAN WITH NOTHING PARTICULAR TO DO OR TO PROVE, IN THE SECONDARY WORLD IS NOT — SNORING.
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HOUSEKEEPING TIP:
IF YOU LEAVE SOMETHING SITTING WHERE IT DOESN’T BELONG — LONG ENOUGH -YOU’LL BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO IT AND ACCEPT ITS PLACEMENT THERE AS PROPER. ….(DID I SAY, “TIP REGARDING HOUSEKEEPING”, OR CONCERNING,
“MENTAL ARRANGEMENTS” )
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THE ONLY MENTAL ACTIVITY AVAILABLE TO MEN THAT IS NOT POTENTIALLY, “TOXIC” IS THAT WHOSE SOLE PURPOSE IS TO EXPOSE THE MIND FOR WHAT IT IS,
AND THUS – PURPOSEFULLY — POISON IT BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL STATE OF,
EMPTINESS, PEACE AND QUIET. (NOT TO MENTION, COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING:
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WHAT MAKES THE INTERESTS OF THE FEW, SO DOGGONE — TRICKY-TO-PURSUE
IS BECAUSE THEY’RE IN DIRECT CONTRAVENTION WITH MAN’S NATURAL-BORN MENTAL PROGRAMMING.
WITHOUT DOUBT….INDEED: ‘ITS HARD TO — GO-AGAINST-MOTHER-NATURE.
• • “AHHHHHHH!”, HAPPILY REPORTED ONE MAN UPON HEARING THIS SAID:
“JUST WHAT I WANTED: AN – ‘EXCUSE’ FOR MY PREDICAMENT!”,
IN THAT CASE SIR — IT DOESN’T APPLY TO YOU.
…”AHHHHHH, THEN”, DEJECTEDLY SAID HE, “THINGS ARE BACK TO NORMAL…FOR ME.”
REVISION OF THE ABOVE:
WITHOUT DOUBT….INDEED, INDEED: FOR THOSE WHO WANT MORE FROM THEIR, “INNER LIFE”
HAVING THINGS — “NORMAL” IS THE WORST OF ALL POSSIBLE CONDITIONS.
IF YOU ARE NOT IN CONSTANT, DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE NATURAL & AUTOMATIC OPERATIONS OF YOUR MIND
THEN YOU’RE JUST DREAMING THAT YOU, SHARE THE — INTERESTS-OF-THE-FEW,
AND ONE MAN, (WITH SOME NOTABLE EXPERIENCE UNDER HIS SUSPENDERS), SAID TO HIMSELF ‘_’IF:-.I.WANTED TO BE ‘ORDINARY”
THEN I WOULD CONTINUE TO DO
WHAT THE — ORDINARY DO.
…JEEZE!”, HE FURTHER MUSED TO HIMSELF, AS HE INSTANTLY, AND BRIEFLY, (THOUGH ADEQUATELY), LOOKED BACK ON HIS ROUTINE LIFE,
AND REALIZED HOW THINGS WOULD NOW BE HAD HE CONTINUED ALONG SUCH A LINE, “JEEZE — WHAT A WASTE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN.”
FROM A RELATED VIEW, (THOUGH TURNED IN AN UNAUTHORIZED MANNER), PONDER THIS: IS IT ACTUALLY, “MORE DEMANDING” TO ACCEPT & LIVE THE LIFE THAT HAS SEEMINGLY BEEN APPOINTED TO YOU — OR TO STRUGGLE AGAINST WHAT,
(FROM WHAT WAS JUST NOTED), MAY VERY WELL BE YOUR ASSIGNED — INEVITABLE ?!?!
TWO POSSIBLE APPROACHES TO ATTEMPTING THE IMPROBABLE ARE AT. MAN’S DISPOSAL:
THE FIRST IS TO UNDERTAKE IT, TOTALLY IN THE DARK, WHILE THE OTHER IS TO
GO ABOUT IT, COMPLETELY,OUT-IN-THE-OPEN, IN THE LIGHT — AND ABANDONING ALL
ENTICING, AVAILABLE FORMS OF SELF-DECEPTION.
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THE ROUTINE LIFE OF MAN IS SUCH THAT BOATS CONTINUE TO DOCK WHICH WERE — NE’RE STEERED.
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WHEN READING ABOUT, “HOW TO AWAKEN” IS NOT ONLY NO LONGER HELPFUL, BUT IS, DOWNRIGHT ANNOYING
THEN YOU, BY YIMMINIE, HAVE REACHED A SIGNIFICANT MILEPOST.
….(WELCOME TO TURKEY AT LEAST!)
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ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE DELIGHTFUL, (THOUGH TOO OFTEN, OVERLOOKED) WAY IN WHICH THE MIND DEALS WITH ITS OWN, (THOUGH NOW: LONG-FORGOTTEN-THAT-IT-DID-IT), CREATIONS:
RATHER THAN MEN SO COMMONLY, “THANKING GOD FOR” THIS-OR-THAT,
THIS GOD OF THEIRS SHOULD BE CONSTANTLY THANKING THEM FOR THE FACT THAT WHEN, THINGS ARE UNACCOUNTABLY GOING WELL,
MEN ATTRIBUTE IT TO THEIR GOD AND EXPRESS TO HIM THEIR GRATITUDE THEREFOR, AND YET WHEN THINGS ARE NOT GOING SO WELL,
THEY DO NOT ON HIM, THE BLAME LAY.
…(WEIRD’ CERTAINLY TO HIM, ADVANTAGEOUS, BUT NONETHELESS — WEIRD-D-D!
…BY THE BY: I WONDER WHY MEN DO NOT ALSO, TOWARD THEMSELVES, ROUTINELY, TAKE SUCH A POSITION?!?!
…[I GUESS IF THEY DID SO, (AND STAYED ALERT AS TO WHAT IT COULD REVEAL;
THEY WOULD BE FACE-TO-FACE WITH A CERTAIN, NORMALLY-UNNOTICED,
“REALITY-OF-LIFE” FOR WHICH
ONLY A FEW SEEM GENUINELY INTERESTED AND PREDISPOSED.J)
IN A CERTAIN WAY, THE AWAKENED STATE IS EVEN MORE COMPLEX AND STRANGE THAT
THE SLEEPING,ONE IN THAT IT CAN CONTAIN A KIND OF CONTINUING
FASCINATION WITH THE SLEEPING STATE.
…(BUT I REMIND YOU: WHILE ALIVE, YOU CAN DREAM OF BEING DEAD,
BUT WHEN DEAD, YOU CANNOT DREAM OF BEING ALIVE.
IT ,IS STILL, (AND ALWAYS), A MATTER OF YOU UNDERSTANDING –
— AT THIS INSTANT MOMENT —
EXACTLY,WHERE-IT-IS AND — ON-WHAT
YOUR MIND RESTS.
TRY AND TAKE NOTE: YOU CANNOT “BE AWAKE” WHILE “BEING ASLEEP”, NEITHER CAN YOU, “BE AWAKE” WHILE THINKING-THAT — YOU’RE. ASLEEP.
…(DO YOU BEGIN TO “GET IT”? AND DON’T LET YOUR THINKING ANSWER THE QUESTION
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AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, YOU SHOULD DISCOVER FOR YOURSELF
HOW TO USE THE MIND IN THE WAY MOST CONDUCIVE TO ACHIEVING AWAKENING, FOR THE LONGER YOU REFRAIN FROM DOING SO, THE MORE DIFFICULT IT BECOMES.
NO NON-PHYSICAL “HABIT” IS, (WITHIN ITSELF),AS DETRIMENTAL AS IS THE MATTER OF) HABIT — ITSELF!
FOR THE ALERT FEW: THERE IS NOTHING MORE DAMNING YOU CAN SAY ABOUT THE
STATE OF MENTAL SLEEP THAN THE MERE DESCRIPTION — SLEEP.
..(AND AS ALWAYS: THE BEST STATEMENT OF THE “REALITY OF A”
GIVEN THING
IS SIMPLY THE SILENCE AWARENESS OF THE THING.
….[“HEY, WHY DON’T YOU PEOPLE JUST, ‘SHUT-UP’ AND LET LIFE DRIVE?!])
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NO ONE WHO TRULY STRIVES TO AWAKEN
EVER, (ON A GIVEN DAY), GOES TO BED IN THE SAME CONDITION INWHICH HE AROSE.
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AMONGST THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND: AS MUCH GOOD WILL CAN BE CONVEYED BY
ENLIGHTENED SILENCE
AS BY A HUNDRED CHEERFUL WORDS.
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A MAN NOT MORE MINDFUL OF HIS INNER STATE THAN OF HIS BEHAVIOR IS A MAN WHO, (IF YOU ARE AWAKE), CAN BE HEARD — SNORING.
NOTE: IT IS NOT A MATTER OF “WHAT-TO-DO” IN THE PRIMARY REALM,
BUT RATHER ALWAYS, IN YOUR SECRET, SECONDARY ONE. (THAT’S PART OF WHAT MAKES IT SUCH — OUT-&-OUT FUN.)
…AND THEN THERE WAS THIS ONE GUY WHO CONCLUDED EVERYTHING HE SAID WITH•A RHYME-ELSE CONCLUDED IT APPARENTLY, “CONCLUSIVELY”….EVEN IF SAID,
“CONCLUSION” WAS FAUX-AND-FORCED….[WHICH OF COURSE, THEY ALL ARE.
…BUT YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT, RIGHT”?’ NO?!, YOU MEAN YOU’RE NOT THAT AWAKE
YET” AH, COME ON: YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO MAKE THAT FINAL,”BIG EFFORT”])