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MY NEWS FOR APRIL21, 1999
WHEN YOU’RE THINKING ABOUT BEING CLEAR-HEADED & MORE INDIVIDUALLY CONSCIOUS IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOU ARE CLOSER TO,BEING CLEAR HEADED & MORE CONSCIOUS, BUT THIS IS A MENTAL ILLUSION
FOR ANY TIME THAT YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT THIS, (OR ANYTHING ELSE), YOU ARE MOST CERTAINLY NOT CLEAR-HEADED,
AND YOU ARE A UNIVERSE AWAY FROM BEING MORE INDIVIDUALLY CONSCIOUS,
AND A MAN ASKED A MYSTIC:
“WHY DO I FIND TERMS SUCH AS: ‘BEING AWAKE, OR ENLIGHTENED’
MORE ATTRACTIVE TO ME THAN BEING MERELY: ‘CLEAR-HEADED’?!”,
AND THE MYSTIC IMMEDIATELY, STOMPED ON THE MAN’S FOOT,
THEN PRETENDED TO CURE HIS ARTHRITIS,
THEN ASKED THE MAN
WHICH OF THE TWO THINGS HE FOUND MORE ATTRACTIVE?!
TO ACCEPT THE EMBEDDED NOTION THAT YOU CAN IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER, “BE AWAKE” WHILE THINKING ABOUT, “BEING AWAKE”,
IS AN ILLNESS, AND THE WOULD-BE MYSTIC’S, EVER AVAILABLE,
“SUPREME FOOLISHNESS”.
XXX
NOTE: ANYONE WHO SPEAKS SERIOUS CRITICISM OF MAN MISDIRECTS FROM A TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF MAN:
BUT, (FURTHER NOTE): THE MIND IS BY NATURE CRITICAL,
FOR IT IS THROUGH ITS “CRITICISM” OF MAN’S PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT THAT HAS COME THE INVENTIONS & CONTRIVANCES THAT HAVE CHANGED THE ENVIRONMENT TO MORE SUITABLY ACCOMMODATE MAN.
BUT: MY OH MY: JUST LOOK HOW FAR FROM THAT FIELD, CRITICISM HAS STRAYED: HOW FAR AFIELD…HOW FAR — AND UNPROFITABLY SO FOR THE FEW — AFIELD FROM USEFUL AREAS,
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AS LONG AS WE’RE MOMENTARILY AT THIS PARTICULAR VERBAL JUNCTURE
I CAN OFFER YOU AN ALTERNATIVE WAY OF LOOKING AT THIS MATTER:
RATHER THAN INDULGING IN A BLANKET REBUKE OF THOUGHTS,
CONSIDER THAT THEY ARE AVAILABLE EN TWO DIFFERENT TYPES:
THE FIRST TYPE IS SIMPLY: “THOUGHTS”, WITH NO MODIFIER ATTACHED,
WHILE THE SECOND TYPE WOULD BE CALLED SOMETHING LIKE:
“BLUNDERING THOUGHTS”,
(OR: “CARLESS, DISTORTED, OR, ERRONEOUS THOUGHTS”)
THOSE WHO CAN APPLY THIS APPROACH MIGHT FIND IT MORE USEFUL AT TIMES THAN AN OUT-OF-HAND DEPLORING OF ALL THOUGHTS.
IN THE WONDERLAND IN WHICH THIS KIND OF ACTIVITY IS PURSUED:
ANY COAT HANGING ON THE RACK WILL FIT YOU WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT -….(AND WHEN TIMES REALLY BECOME “RIGHT” — YOU NO LONGER NEED A COAT.
XXX
WHAT IS, “BEING ASLEEP”, BUT BEING FOREVER RESTLESS.
AND WHAT IS “BEING AWAKE” OTHER THAN RESIDING IN THE UNENDING CALM, BECAUSE THE UNENDING CALM RESIDES IN YOU?!.
I POINT OUT AGAIN THE POSSIBILITY OF EMPLOYING THE VIEW OF THOUGHTS
AS EITHER BEING, “BLUNDERING”, OR NOT,
AND IF YOU COMPREHEND THIS DIVISION OF TYPES OF THOUGHTS
THEN INSTEAD OF CONSTANTLY TRYING TO “STOP ALL THOUGHTS”
IN AN EFFORT TO ACHIEVE MENTAL CALM,
YOU COULD TRY TO REALIZE SAME VIA ONLY ENTERTAINING THOUGHTS THAT
ARE, “THOUGHTS-WITHOUT-MODIFIERS” —
— THOUGHTS THAT ARE JUST “THOUGHTS” AND NOT,
“CARELESS, AUTOMATIC, DISTORTING OR BLUNDERING”THOUGHTS.”
HINT: THOUGHTS THAT ARE JUST “THOUGHTS”, WITH NO CONDITIONS ATTACHED,
MORE EASILY PASS THRU YOU WITHOUT THE MIND WANTING TO CLING THERETO.
THE THOUGHTS PRIMED TO MECHANICALLY FEED YOUR MIND
ARE BY THEIR NATURE, “BLUNDERING, CLUMSY & OFF BALANCE”
IN THAT THEY ARE BORN IN A WORLD OF DUALITIES,
AND ARE UNABLE TO EVER EXPRESS LIFE’S WHOLENESS,
THUS, AT THEIR VERY BEST, (A “BEST” THAT IS IN PRACTICE, MEANINGLESS),
BUT EVEN AT THEIR BEST, AUTOMATIC THOUGHTS PRESENT ONLY ONE OF THE
MENTALLY PERCEIVED, DUAL POSSIBILITIES.
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SO ‘EVEN IF THE PRESENTATION OF ONE OF THE DUALITIES IS, (LET US SAY,
APPARENTLY, FAIR & ACCURATE, IT STILL OFFERS ONLY A BLUNDERING SLAP-DASH, HAPHAZARD PICTURE OF THE WHOLENESS OF LIFE
.WHALLS,”BEING ASLEEP” BUT BEING A ONE EYED/I’D MAN?!
WHAT IS, “BEING IN THE DARK” OTHER THAN BEING MENTALLY, OFF BALANCED?,
WHAT IS, “BEING CAPTIVE” BESIDES HOLDING ONLY TO THOUGHTS THAT ARE “BLUNDERING & CARELESS”?!
THE MAN IN THE BARNYARD WHO HANDLES DUNG SUFFERS NO HARM TO HIS HANDS
AS LONG AS HE DOESN’T HOLD ON TO IT. LONGER THAN NECESSARY.
ERGO & THUS I SAY: NO THOUGHTS CAN DO YOUR CALM HARM,
EXCEPT THOSE YOU ALLOW. TO LINGER LONG ENOUGH FOR YOUR MIND TO GET ENTANGLED WITH.
ERGO & THUS THIS FACT: NO THOUGHT WILL DO YOU DAMAGE UNLESS BY JOVE,
YOU PERSONALLY — THINK ABOUT THE SON OF A BITCH.
…IT’S LIKE A SOLDIER IN THE TRENCHES IN WONDERLAND WHO WILL NEVER BE HARMED BY THE BULLETS FLYING OVER UNLESS HE STANDS UP AND CATCHES ONE IN HIS TEETH.
THERE WAS ONCE A MAN WHO WAS BORN WITH A FEISTY FALCON
WHO USED HIS HEAD AS ITS HOME PERCH,
AND WHO THEREFROM, SUFFERED CONSTANT LACERATIONS TO THE AREA:
WHEN HE FOUND THAT HE COULD NOT DRIVE THE BIRD
PERMANENTLY FROM ITS PERCH ATOP HIS HEAD,
HE DID EVENTUALLY DISCOVER THAT HE COULD SUITABLY
DEAL_WITH THE SITUATION & STOP THE DISCOMFORT NORMALLY CAUSED BY
THE FALCON’S GRIP,
SIMPLY BY NEVER THINKING ABOUT
ITS CONSTANT PRESENCE
ATOP HIS HEAD.
OF COURSE: ONLY IN THE PLAIN-TERRAIN LANDSCAPE OF,
“PERSONAL WONDERLAND” CAN SUCH NORMALLY, IMPOSSIBLE & ILLOGICAL SITUATIONS BE WILFULLY BROUGHT INTO EXISTENCE.
THOSE WHO TAKE ALL THOUGHTS TO BE THE SAME, SUFFER FROM, ALL THOUGHTS, WHILE A MAN WHO CAN MAKE DISTINCTIONS, WHERE NONE NATURALLY EXIST, CAN MORE READILY MAINTAIN AN OPEN HEAD WHEREBY ALL IDEAS CAN FREELY COME RIGHT IN, AND — PASS RIGHT OUT, WITH NER’EE A HANDPRINT ON ‘EM.
AND THEN THERE WAS THIS ONE MAN WHO CONSIDERED HIMSELF TO, “BE AT HOME” ONLY WHEN HE WAS, HALF IN THE HOUSE, AND, HALF OUT.
AND STILL ANOTHER MAN WAS SO SUDDENLY STRUCK:”THE WORST THING ABOUT BEING ASLEEP IS THAT WHEN YOU ARE, YOU AREN’T AWARE OF IT, AND BY THE
TIME THAT YOU ARE, IT’S TOO LATE AND YOU’RE ALREADY — SUFFERIN’ OVER IT.”
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A MONK ADMITTED:
“EVERYTHING I KNOW, I GOT FROM MY MASTER,”,
AND WHEN ASKED WHAT PRECISELY HE HAD GOTTEN FROM HIS TEACHER, HE REPLIED:
“NOTHING — THAT IS TO SAY:
THE REALIZATION THAT THERE IS NO ‘KNOWLEDGE’ TO BE HAD
THAT IS PERTINENT TO THE AIM TO PERSONALIZE MY OWN CONSCIOUSNESS.
MY MASTER WAS WISE ENOUGH NOT TO ADD TO MY ALREADY PRESENT, USELESS AND DISTRACTING LOAD OF NORMALLY ACQUIRED ‘KNOWLEDGE’:
HE INSTEAD LAID OUT FOR ME: MAPS WITHOUT EDGES:
A PATH WITH NO BOUNDARIES, & A UNIVERSE NOT HEMMED IN BY WORDS.
WHAT I SOMEHOW GOT FROM MY MASTER WAS — FREEDOM —
LIBERATION FROM THE GRIP BY WHICH THE MIRAGE OF KNOWLEDGE
SQUEEZES FROM MAN
HIS BREATH, HIS SIGHT, HIS HEARING, AND INDIVIDUAL, ‘MENTAL SENSES’.”
AND NOW TO MOVE FROM THIRD-PERSON-FICTION, TO FIRST-PERSON-REALITY, I SAY TO YOU:
HEED ONLY THE VOICE WITHIN YOU WHICH SERVES TO LIBERATE, NOT CAPTIVATE.
IF YOU KEEP THINKING ABOUT YOURSELF IN THE SAME OLD WAY YOU’LL STAY YOUR SAME OLD SELF.
…THAT’S TERRIBLE! AND, TERRIBLY TRUE,
SO WHY NOT MAKE PERFECTLY TERRIBLE EFFORTS TO ALTER THE SITUATION?!
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A CERTAIN MAN WHO’D NEVER LEFT THE HOUSE IN WHICH HE WAS BORN
WANTED TO CHANGE ITS INNER STRUCTURE,
BUT THE ONLY INFORMATION HE COULD FIND ON THE SUBJECT
WERE NOTES SCATTERED ABOUT HIS HOUSE
WHOSE REFERENCES WERE LIMITED TO HIS HOUSE,
A SITUATION WHEREIN ‘INFORMATION’ IS DISCOVERED,
BUT WHICH INFORMATION IS IN TRUTH, AT BEST, NOTHING MORE THAN
A REFLECTION OF THE INSIDE WALLS OF THE CONTAINER IN WHICH
IT IS DISCOVERED
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IF A TRAIN HAD CONSCIOUSNESS,
WHEN IT REACHED THE END OF ITS TRACKS IT MIGHT SAY: “I HAVE DISCOVERED THE TRUTH —
THIS IS ALL THAT I KNOW:
I HAVE DISCOVERED THE TRUTH REGARDING THE:
‘DISCOVERY-OF-THE-TRUTH’ BY THE MIND.”,
AND NO LESS SHOULD AN ALERT MAN BE ABLE TO REALIZE CONCERNING HIS MIND.
EVERY SINGLE IDEA THAT YOU CAN EVER HAVE COMES SOLELY FROM YOUR MIND,
AND THUS HAS NOTHING TO TELL YOU OF OBJECTIVE SIGNIFICANCE ABOUT THE MIND,.
SO STOP THINKING THAT THERE IS ANYTHING TO BE LEARNED ABOUT THE MIND
FROM YOUR THINKING-ABOUT-IT AT LEAST IN ANY ROUTINE FASHION.
COME NOW: EVEN THE MOST ORDINARY OF MEN ACCEPT THE PHYSICAL FACT THAT, FROM A SALT MINE COMES ONLY SALT,
IT IS ONLY WHEN WE MOVE INTO THE WORD OF THE MIND
THAT THE IMPOSSIBLE BECOMES THE EXPECTED.
… IT IS,(I MIGHT NOTE), REALLY WORSE THAN THAT:
TO DISTRACTED AWARENESS, THE IMPOSSIBLE SEEMS TO HAVE ACTUALLY ARRIVED.
…”YES.”, SAID A VOICE, “I AM HERE.”, A PRIME EXAMPLE OF WHAT I JUST NOTED,
THE VOICE DECLARED: “I AM HERE::, AH YES: THE IMPOSSIBLE HAS ARRIVED.
XXX
THERE WAS ONCE A ONE MAN MYSTICAL SCHOOL
WHOSE SOLE PRACTICE WAS THUS DESCRIBED:
“WAVE YOUR WIENER
AT THE INEVITABLE.”
…AND WHEN THIS ONE MAN ORGANIZATION WAS ASKED TO REVEAL THE CORE
TEACHING OF HIS SCHOOL, HE GAVE THIS DESCRIPTION:
“VAST STILLNESS — EVERYTHING QUIET.”
THEN MERRILY — “WAVED HIS WIENER” AT
COME-WHAT-MIGHT.
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JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS “IMPOSSIBLE”
DOESN’T MEAN THAT IT — CAN’T BE DONE! —
…NEITHER DOES IT MEAN THAT IT CAN BE DONE! -….IT MEANS NOTHING….
IT’S JUST A WORD, AN IMPOSSIBLE WORD, LIKE THE “I” IN:
“I AM HERE.”
…DOES ANYONE UNDERSTAND WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT?!