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MY NEWS FOR APRIL 9, 1999
ACCORDING TO ONE REPORT, THIS IS HOW IT GENERALLY GOES:
YOU SPEND ONE LIFE TIME ENTANGLED IN THINKING ABOUT THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF YOU: YOU THEN SPED THE NEXT LIFE EMBROILED IN THINKING ABOUT YOURSELF:
THEN YOU SPEND THE NEXT LIFE IMMERSED IN THINKING ABOUT YOUR MIND & THOUGHTS, THEN, IF YOU’RE LUCKY, YOUR NEXT LIFE IS SPENT IN NOTHING BUT THE JOYS OF WAKING UP AND BECOMING FREE FROM ALL NEEDLESS INVOLVEMENTS,
SUCH AS THE ONES I JUST MENTIONED.
..(SEE, I TOLD YOU, EVEN IF IT’S NOT THE WEEKEND THERE’S STILL SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO.)
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MEN ARE GIVEN TO SAY THAT: “BEFORE A PROBLEM CAN BE SOLVED
IT MUST BE CORRECTLY DESCRIBED.” ,
WHICH MAY BE TRUE ENOUGH REGARDING PHYSICAL MATTERS,
BUT WHEN APPLIED TO THE NON-TANGIBLE, ITS EFFICACY & APTNESS (TO SAY THE LEAST)
IS DIMINISHED, (LET’S MAKE IT MORE PERSONAL, SHALL WE):
IN THE ATTEMPT TO REALIZE THE GOAL OF THIS ACTIVITY
ANY DESCRIPTION THEREOF CONCERNING WHAT THE SITUATION IS,
AND WHAT YOU WILL DO TO CHANGE IT
ULTIMATELY SERVES TO REINFORCE THE SITUATION,
AND ADD TO ITS NATURAL RESISTANCE TO CHANGE.
THUS IT BE, (THOUGH DIFFICULT TO SEE), THAT
WHEN IT COMES TO INNER,(THAT IS TO SAY), “MENTAL” ALTERATIONS,
NO ONE UNDERSTANDS WHAT THEY’RE DOING,
AND ONLY THOSE WHO ARE AWARE OF THIS,
KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING.
….(AND AS APPROPRIATE TO SUCH KNOWLEDGEABLE MEN, THEY NEVER DESCRIBE WHAT THEY DO.)
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TO FINALLY RECOGNIZE FULLY WHAT’S GOING ON IS TO BE NEITHER PLEASED NOR DISPLEASED THAT OTHERS DO NOT:
AN AWAKENED MAN HAS NO PERSONAL FEELINGS IN THIS RESPECT.
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YOU CAN HEAR MEN SPEAK:
YOU CAN HEAR YOURSELF SPEAK,
BUT HAVE YOU EVER HEARD LIFE SPEAK?
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LET’S DROP ALL OF THE METAPHYSICAL BABBLE AND BE BLUNT IN OUR TELLING: TO “BE ASLEEP” IS TO BE LOCKED IN S SMALL, MENTAL BOX — YUK!!
…NAW, WE CAN BE BLUNTER THAT THAT:
TO BE ASLEEP & OF ORDINARY AWARENESS IS TO BE IN A BUCKET THAT IS
FELLED TO THE BRIM WITH CLOUDY, DISTASTEFUL BRINE. NOW THERE’S REAL YUK!
…NOPE, HOLD IT, HERE IT IS EVEN YUKKER, BLUNTER & BETTER:
TO LIVE OUT YOUR LIFE IN YOUR NATURAL BORN MENTAL CONDITION
IS TO BE TRAPPED IN A ROOM THAT IS JAM-PACKED WITH A GROUP OF ROWDY STRANGERS,
ALL PUSHING & SHOVING AND SHOUTING AT THE TOP OF THEIR VOICES,
AND WITH NOT A MILLIMETER OF EMPTY SPACE BETWEEN THEM —
…AND THE FUNNY THING IS THAT WHEN THIS IS THE CIRCUMSTANCES IN YOUR HEAD,
YOU’RE NOT AWARE OF IT,
YOU ACCEPT IT AS THE NORM,
YOU TAKE IT TO BE THE REAL, INNER & INDIVIDUAL, “YOU”.
…NOW THERE’S THE TRUE “YUKINESS” OF IT…(AT LEAST FOR THE FEW).
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PAST A CERTAIN POINT SPENT IN THIS ACTIVITY,
MERE THINKING ABOUT HOW TO PROPERLY PURSUE AND EXECUTE IT BECOMES A FORM OF SUICIDE….SLOW….GRADUALLY….SUBTLE, AND NOT AT ALL UNPLEASANT.
…SO BE FOREWARNED AND ALERT.
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A MAN’S ORDINARY, NATURALLY-BORN MENTAL ACTIVITY IS A “BORROWED ACTIVITY”, (FROM WHERE, GOD’S OWN DEITY ONLY KNOWS) BUT NEVERTHELESS, OBVIOUSLY – BORROWED. …(THE SOONER YOU REALIZE THIS, THE BETTER WILL BE YOUR TURNIP CROP.)
BUT HAVING SAID THAT, LET ME SAY THIS:
WHO KNOWS WHAT MIGHT BE “BETTER” FOR YOU?! —
WHO KNOWS THAT YOU WILL BE BETTER OFF IF YOU “WAKE UP” & SEE LIFE AS IT IS?!
WHO KNOWS AND WHO CARES?! —
LIFE DOESN’T CARE…YOUR FAMILY & FRIENDS DON’T CARE,
NO ONE CARES, SO WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?!
“HEY” I DON’T GET IT”, SAYS ONE MAN, TO WHICH I REPLY:
“I DON’T EITHER…AND I DON’T CARE…S0 WHY SHOULD YOU?!”
ALL MENTAL “CARING” IS BUT ANOTHER OF MAN’S “BORROWED” NEURAL ACTIVITIES.
DEFINE FOR ME AGAIN, A MAN AWAKE:
HE IS A MAN WHOSE MENTAL LIFE,(TO WHATEVER DEGREE IT EXISTS),
IS STRICTLY HIS OWN:
IT IS “UNNATURAL” IN THAT IT IS ACTUALLY PERSONAL & INDIVIDUAL TO HIM,
AND HAS COME ABOUT, POST NATALLY.
AS IS ALWAYS & FOREVER THE CASE: THERE IS STILL ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT IT, (TO WIT), THAT THE MIND DOES RECORD FOR US, AN OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE, AND THAT IT IS THE BORROWED THOUGHTS THAT COME :[N AND DISTORT THE RECORDINGS, SO THAT IT IS A MISTAKE TO BLAME THE MIND AS THE PROBLEM,
FOR IT IS BY NATURE A PRECISE, UNBIASED PERCEIVING & RECORDING DEVICE
AND IN NO WAY, (BY ITSELF), IS AN IMPEDIMENT TO FULL & CLEAR CONSCIOUSNESS.
SO FROM THIS VIEW: IF THE BORROWED, IMPOSED, UNINVITED THOUGHTS DID NOT COME INTO YOUR MIND — YOU WOULD HAVE NO COMPLAINT CONCERNING YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS, AND YOU WOULD NOT, BY ANY DEFINITION, BE “ASLEEP”,
(AND THAT’D BE THE CODA TO THAT LITTLE DITTY).
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YOU CAN’T BECOME FREE IN YOUR STOMACH:
YOU CAN’T BECOME FREE IN YOUR LUNGS:
YOU CAN ONLY BECOME FREE IN YOUR MIND,
(AND YOU CAN’T EVEN DO THAT IF YOU — THINK ABOUT!)
…(I BET BY NOW THAT YOU SAW THAT COMING FROM 14 MILES AWAY.)
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BEING ASLEEP IS A “PRESSING” MATTER: BEING AWAKE, RELAXING.
THERE WAS ONCE A MAN WHO WAS FULL OF ONE LINERS,
BUT AS HIS AWAKENING WIDENED, THEIR SUPPLY DWINDLED.
AND THE POET LAUREATE OF A CERTAIN MONASTERY BEGAN TO SING:
“ONCE I WAS FULL OF SLEEP,
THEN —- FULL OF SHIT,
BUT NOW, BY GOD, BY GOD, BY GOD,
I’M FILLED TO THE BRIM WITH — NOTHING!”
AND ONE MAN SUDDENLY SUFFERED A MOMENTARY PANIC ATTACK WHEN THE THOUGHT STRUCK HIM: “IF I WERE TO BECOME PERMANENTLY AWAKE, WHAT THE HELL WOULD I HAVE TO DO THEN?!”
…COULD IT BE THAT THOSE WHO WANT TO ACHIEVE ENLIGHTENMENT ARE SIMPLY PEOPLE
WHO CAN FIND NOTHING ELSE IN MAN’S SECONDARY, MENTAL WORLD THAT
ADEQUATELY ENTERTAINS & DISTRACTS THEM
FROM THE LARGE GAPS OF BOREDOM THAT APPEAR BETWEEN EPISODES OF
PRIMARY, PHYSICAL PLEASURE?!
…(NAW….COULDN’T BE — RIGHT?!
…[AND I SUGGEST YOU GO ALONG WITH THIS
‘CAUSE I CAN SURE THINK UP MUCH WORSE & INSULTING POSSIBILITIES.])
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AND FROM A LISTENER COMES THIS INSTANT FAX:
“YOU INSINUATE THAT AN AWAKENED MAN’S MIND WOULD BE BASICALLY EMPTY,
THEN YOU SAY THAT IT IS ONLY WITH THE AWAKENED THAT THE CONTENTS OF THEIR MIND
CAN BE SAID TO BE THEIRS, PERSONALLY & INDIVIDUALLY — HOW DOES THIS JIBE?”
…SIR, IN A CLOSED SYSTEM SUCH AS THE MIND, WHEREIN ALL IS BORROWED,
IT IS ONLY “NOTHING” WHICH A MAN CAN TRULY POSSESS,
AND CALL HIS OWN.
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THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THOSE WHO’RE ACTUALLY MAKING EFFORT & GETTING SOME WHERE
AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT
CAN BE TOLD BY THE FACT THAT THOSE DOING NOTHING
TALK INCESSANTLY ABOUT THE STATE OF ENLIGHTENMENT,
DESCRIBING IT IN DETAIL, AND CONFIDENTLY, SINGING ITS PRAISES,
WHILE THOSE ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISHING SOMETHING
SPEAK ONLY OF THEIR IMMEDIATE EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE THE STATE.
QUESTION: WHERE ARE THOSE MAKING EFFORT TO AWAKEN WHO HAVE NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT ANY OF IT?
…I’LL GIVE YOU A HINT: THEY ARE, IN POTENTIAL — IN YOU,
BUT TO DISCOVER THEM YOU MUST TAKE OFF ALL OF YOUR CLOTHES,
WALK AWAY FROM THEM WHILE NEVER LOOKING BACK,
AND BE NAKEDLY EXCITED AND PREPARED FOR WHATEVER MAY PRESENT ITSELF NEXT.
AN ENLIGHTENED MAN IS NOT A, “CLOTHES HORSE” —
HE IS THE HORSE BENEATH THE CLOTHES.
IF THE ORDINARY COULD VIEW THINGS FROM A CERTAIN PERSPECTIVE, THEY COULD SAY THAT THEY FIND THEIR EVERYDAY MENTAL LIFE TOLERABLE ONLY WHEN THEIR MIND IS “ON DRUGS” – THE NEURAL. ONES NATURAL TO THE BRAIN, WHILE THE FEW FIND THEMSELVES INCREASINGLY, “MENTALLY ADDICTED” TO -EMPTINESS, AND THE ABSENCE OF THE STIMULANTS THAT KEEP THE ORDINARY GOING.
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ONE MAN SO PONDERED:
“WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT OTHER THAN THE INTEGRATION OF MY MIND’S, ORIGINAL
OBJECTIVE RECORDINGS OF LIFE
WITH MY OWN REFRAIN-MENT TO COMMENT THEREON?
IS IT NOT SIMPLY THE UNITING OF THE TWO,PARTIALLY OVER-LAPPING IMAGES _
THAT MEN CARRY OF LIFE, AND WHICH RESULTS IN A DISTORTED VIEW,
INTO THE CORRECT, UNIFIED PICTURE WHICH BRINGS EVERYTHING CLEARLY INTO FOCUS.
WHY DO I NOT SIMPLY LET THE MIND DO ITS JOB, AND KEEP MY COMMENTS OUT OF IT?!” A MIND UNBURDENED BY BORROWED THOUGHTS IS CONSCIOUSNESS, ALIVE AND AWAKE.
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NONE BUT YOU KNOW WHETHER YOU CAN YET SEE IT THIS WAY OR NOT,
BUT HERE IT IS AGAIN –IN ANOTHER PICTURIZATION– FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION THE METHOD TO GAIN THE GOAL OF THIS ACTIVITY IS SIMPLE:
“EMPTY YOUR POCKETS AND — SHUT UP.”
…(ACTUALLY, ALL THAT THE SUPREME METHOD CONSISTS OF IS: “SHUT UP”…. …BUT TO TENDER EARS, BY ITSELF, IT SOUNDS SO HARSH.
….[BUT NEVERTHELESS, THERE IT IS: SIMPLY — “SHUT UP”] )
AHHHHHHHHHHHH! — THE WONDROUS, MYSTERIOUS, AND UNEXPECTED METAPHYSICAL REALITY OF THE GREAT STRUGGLE:
TO — SHUT UP.
…(YOU SEE: THE “SECRET” OF THE ENLIGHTENED IS SIMPLY THIS: THEY LET LIFE DO ALL THE TALKING.)