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MY NEWS FOR APRIL 23, 1999
IN ORDINARY AFFAIRS IT IS HELD THAT TO EVER UNDERSTAND SOMETHING FULLY INVOLVES THE FREEDOM AND ABILITY TO BE CRITICAL OF IT WHEN NECESSARY, WHILE IN AFFAIRS SUCH AS THIS,
CRITICISM IS THE UNSHAKEABLE BAR TO UNDERSTANDING.
X X X
MEN HIT THE GROUND ALREADY MENTALLY RUNNING,
AND ARE APPARENTLY INTENDED TO LIVE THE REST OF THEIR LIFE THUS.
…WHAT MAKES THE FEW KEEP WANTING TO STOP!
….AHHHHH!, ONLY THE FEW KNOW….(AND EVEN THEY DON’T.)
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WHAT IS, “BEING AWAKE” OTHER THAN BEING, “MENTALLY STILL”?! NOTE: ANYTHING THAT MAKES YOU MENTALLY BUSY,
(SUCH AS THINKING ABOUT AWAKENING),
IS, “BEING ASLEEP”.
…(NOTICE HOW YOU DON’T REALLY HAVE TO SLAY-THE-DRAGON SINCE HE ULTIMATELY CONSUMES HIS OWN SELF FROM THE TAIL UP.)
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ALL PSYCHOLOGICAL ILLS BEGIN IN THE WOMB, ERGO, THEY CANNOT BE CURED POST-NATALLY:
THE ONLY POTENT TREATMENT IS IN REALIZING THEIR ORIGIN.
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IN ANSWER TO THE ETERNAL QUESTION:
“DO EXTERNAL CONDITIONS ACTUALLY, ‘MOVE ABOUT’,
OR DOES MY INTERNAL, MENTAL MOVEMENT JUST MAKE THEM SEEM SO?”,
I OFFER THIS RESPONSE:
ONE MAN HAD ROACHES IN HIS HOUSE.
ONE GROUP OF ROACHES HAD A MAN IN THEIR HOUSE.
THERE IS A SENTIMENT VOICED BY ORDINARY MEN WHICH SAYS: “IT’S ALWAYS ACCORDING TO — HOW-YOU-LOOK-AT-IT.”, WHICH DOES BEGIN TO TOUCH ON THE MATTER,
BUT BY NO MEANS ADEQUATELY COVERS IT.
X X X
WHAT IS THE ATTEMPT TO, “WAKE YOURSELF UP”
OTHER THAN AN EFFORT TO CURE A PHANTOM CREATURE OF.A PHANTOM :[LL?!
THE ONLY MEDICINE USEFUL HERE IS: STILL, CLEAR COMPREHENSION.
THE HEAD OF ONE MONASTERY SEEMED TO TREAT ALL OF THE MONKS AS CHILDREN, IN THAT THE ONLY THING HE EVER SAID TO THEM WAS: “BE STILL.”
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REMEMBER THE MAN WHO RECENTLY OBSERVED THAT HIS, “BEING ASLEEP,
AND MENTALLY OUT-OF-CONTROL” WOULD SURELY HAVE DRIVEN HIM CRAZY BY NOW
WERE IT NOT FOR HIS, “THINKING-ABOUT-IT”,
WELL, NOW HE ADDS THAT HE CAN’T UNDERSTAND HOW EVERYONE ELSE
DOESN’T EVEN SEEM TO NOTICE THEIR LIKEWISE CONDITION (!?!?)
…”IT’S NOT FAIR.”, HE WHINED,
(WITH A TOTALLY INSINCERE WHINE. [COMEDIANS EVERYWHERE!])
X X X
THE LESS IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT BEING AWAKE IS, THE MORE COMPLEX IS YOUR PERCEPTION OF IT.
ONE FATHER WOULD OFTEN SHOUT AT THE BOISTEROUS CHILDREN IN THE OTHER ROOM: “KEEP IT SIMPLE….IF YOU CAN’T BE STILL, AT LEAST KEEP YOUR ACTIVITIES SIMPLE.”
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REGRADING THE AD MOC VIEW OF LOOKING AT THOUGHTS AS BEING AVAILABLE
IN TWO DIFFERENT VARIETIES:
“BLUNDERING THOUGHTS”, AND, “THOUGHTS-WITHOUT-A-MODIFIER”,
CONSIDER THIS:
BLUNDERING THOUGHTS ARE ALWAYS: BUSY AND NOISY:
FLUSTERED AND DISCURSIVE: RAMBUNCTIOUS AND GOSSIPY:
VOLATILE AND IRREPRESSIVE —
— JUST TOO DAMN EXCITABLE AND NOISY FOR AN ALERT MAN’S OWN GOOD.
ON THE OTHER HAND, WHAT I INTEND BY THE TERM, “THOUGHTS WITHOUT A MODIFIER”
REFERS TO A SUBTLE FORM OF MENTAL ALIVENESS, BUT ONE WHICH IS, (COMPARABLY SPEAKING),
VIRTUALLY MOTIONLESS AND ESSENTIALLY SILENT.
AND A MAN ASKED A MYSTIC:
“DO YOU UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING YOU TALK ABOUT?”,
AND FEIGNING THE POSTURE OF A MAN OFFENDED, THE MYSTIC REPLIED:
“MOST CERTAINLY NOT!”,
WHICH DROVE THE MAN TO FURTHER INQUIRE:
“THEN WHAT MAKES YOU SO –‘SPECIAL’?!”,
TO WHICH THE UN-MASKED MAN RESPONDED:
“I’M NOT SPECIAL BUT IF I WERE
IT WOULD BE SIMPLY BECAUSE OF MY UNDERSTANDING THAT
NEITHER I, NOR ANYONE ELSE ACTUALLY, ‘UNDERSTANDS’
WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT.”,
AND WITH THAT COMMENT, THE INTERROGATOR HIMSELF WAS LEFT WITH
HIS KNICKERS HALF WAY DOWN HIS KNEES.
X X X
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EVERY YEAR ON THE DAY OF. “THE GREAT, ANNUAL DIALOGUE WITH THE MASTER”,
(THE ONLY TIME WORDS WERE PERMITTED IN THE MONASTERY),
ONE MONK WOULD ALWAYS USE HIS PRIVATE MOMENT WITH THE SCHOOL’S HEAD
TO ASK HIM THE SAME QUESTION:
“CAN A MAN EVER BECOME SO ENLIGHTENED THAT HE WON’T SAY ANYTHING?”,
BUT EVEN ON SUCH AN EXCEPTIONAL DAY,
THAT WAS ONE QUESTION TO WHICH THE MASTER WOULD NEVER RESPOND.
IN ONE LAND,
WHEN THE CHILDREN ARE RAMBUNCTIOUS INDOORS
IT CAUSES NOTICEABLE SHIFTS IN THE CONDITIONS OUTSIDE.
THE SKY CREATES CLOUDS — THE ELUL PRODUCES WEATHER.
…”AHH, BE STILL MY HEART!
…AND IF YOU CAN’T BE STILL, BE QUIET! AHHHHHHHHH,
….AND IF YOU CAN’T BE QUITE, BE STILL
AHHHHHHHH, ATTA BOY!”
X X X
SEXUALITY IN THE WONDERLAND OF CLEAR-HEADEDNESS,AND ENLIGHTENMENT, WHEREIN IS: “VAST STILLNESS — EVERYTHING QUIET”:
“VAST STILLNESS” IS FEMININE — “EVERYTHING QUIET”, MASCULINE. UP PRODUCES DOWN — THE MIND CREATES DIRECTIONS.
AND ONE MAN MUSED: “I KNOW WHAT I KNOW IN COMPARISON TO WHAT I DON’T KNOW
…BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN SINCE I CAN’T POSSIBLY KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT I ‘DON’T KNOW’ IN THAT BY DEFINITION, ‘I DON’T KNOW IT’?!”
NO NEED TO CHASE DOWN UNICORNS — THEY EVENTUALLY CORRAL THEMSELVES.
COROLLARY: ONLY THE SLEEPING STRUGGLE TO AWAKE —THOSE AWAKE DON’T BOTHER.
AND ONE MAN SUDDENLY THOUGHT: “THAT’S WHAT I’LL DO:
I’LL SIMPLY PRETEND TO BE AWAKE! WHO’S TO CHALLENGE ME?!”
…(IT’S SURE A GOOD THING THAT THERE AREN’T TOO MANY WOULD-BE MYSTICS LIKE HIM! — HUH!!)
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AN ALERT MAN NEEDN’T WORRY ABOUT BEING HIT BY A TRAIN OR A BUS -IT IS THE REPETITION OF HIS MENTAL LIFE THAT WILL EVENTUALLY, RUN HIM OVER AND CAUSE I-1/S DEMISE.
AND ONE MAN WOULD SO ADDRESS HIMSELF:
“MAY I BECOME AS VAST AS THE UNIVERSE, AND AS STILL AS SPACE.”
NOTE: YOU CAN’T BE “HIT” IF YOU’RE NOT STANDING THERE. …AND ALL VOICES SAID: “WE KNOW THAT.”,
ALL VOICES THAT IS BUT THE VOICE OF A MIND TRYING TO SPEAR ITSELF.
NOTE # 2: WHAT’S THE POINT IN BEING A WHALER WHEN IT’S CLEAR THAT AHAB AND MOBY ARE ONE?!
NO, IT WILL NOT BE AN OUT-OF-CONTROL AUTOMOBILE THAT WILL KILL YOU, IT WILL BE YOUR OWN, OUT-OF-CONTROL-MIND THAT WILL RUN YOU DOWN, AND LEAVE TIRE TRACKS ON YOUR SPIRIT FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER.
LIFE RESULTS IN DEATH — THE MIND CONJURES UP THE “HARDSHIPS”
NOTE # 3: WHERE ‘TIS: “VAST STILLNESS”,AND –“EVERYTHING QUIET”, THERE IS NO ROOM FOR HUMAN PROBLEMS TO APPEAR.
THE MIND OF THE ORDINARY MAN SAYS: “I AM RESTLESS, THEREFORE] EXIST.”, WHILE THE THOUGHTS OF THE ENLIGHTENED MAN,(BEING VIRTUALLY, “MOTIONLESS & SILENT”),
EXPRESS NO VIEW OF THE MATTER.
…”THAT’S IT!”, SAID ONE MAN: “THERE’S THE TRICK —
I’LL PRETEND THAT IN NO WAY AM I — UNEASY OR CONCERNED ABOUT ANYTHING.”
NOTE # 4: IN THAT SPECIAL,”MENTAL WONDERLAND”:
A WHOLEHEARTED, “PRETEND” IS AS GOOD AS EVERYBODY ELSE’S REALITY ANY OLD DAY.
….(NOTE # 4: STOP FOR NOW AT, NOTE #3….PASS IT ALONG.
AND SUDDENLY ONE MAN CRIED OUT: “I CAN’T STOP NOW —
I’M WAY TOO CLOSE TO SOMETHING! —
— NOT QUITE SURE, WHAT — BUT DAMMIT!,
I’M WAY TOO CLOSE TO STOP NOW.”,
(HE THEN GRINNED IN OUR DIRECTION, I BELIEVE CONVEYING THAT
SOMETHING LESS THAN TOTAL SINCERITY WAS INVOLVEMENT IN HIS EXCLAMATION.)
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THAT MAN WE MENTIONED BEFORE WANTS US TO CONCLUDE TONIGHT’S NEWS WITH A_REPEAT OF HIS OBSERVATION, (TO WIT): “MY BEING ASLEEP & MENTALLY OUT OF CONTROL, (WERE IT NOT FOR MY CAPACITY TO, THINK-ABOUT-IT),
WOULD HAVE BY NOW — DRIVEN ME CRAZY OR ELSE AWAKENED ME.”
…WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE I KEEP REFERRING TO THIS MATTER ?I’
AND A MAN ASKED A WAKE UP ARTIST:
“MUST YOU BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY CALM & QUIET THE MIND,
OR IS JUST REMEMBERING THAT YOU WANT TO, SUFFICIENT?!”,
AND THE ARTIST REPLIED:
“THAT IS THE QUESTION WITH WHICH IF
MYSTICAL SAILORS TOO LONG BUNK — WITH IT UNRESOLVED —
MAKES SODOMITES OF ‘EM ALL.
…AND — “SELF SCREWED’, I MIGHT ADD.”
…AHHH, THAT’S WHY I KEEP REFERRING TO THAT MATTER!