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MY NEWS FOR APRIL 28, 1999
THERE IS A CERTAIN MAN KNOWN AS AN “EXTERMINATOR”
WHO SPEAKS TO PEOPLE REGARDING WHAT HE CALLS, “RIDDING YOURSELF”,
AND SOMEONE_INEVITABLY ASKS: “RIDDING YOURSELF OF WHAT?”,
AND HE ALWAYS REPLIES: “JUST — ‘RIDDING YOURSELF’,
FOR IF I IDENTIFY SOMETHING SPECIFICALLY AND SAY THAT
IT IS ABOUT RIDDING YOURSELF OF ‘THIS’, OR OF, “THAT’,
IT SUPPORTS THE ERRONEOUS IMPRESSION THAT:
SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH MAN’S LIFE AND SHOULD BE CORRECTED,
AND IF YOU BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A POINT TO BEING AN EXTERMINATOR
YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO — RID YOURSELF..
MOST PEOPLE HAD TO BE TOLD THIS MANY TIMES,
AND MOST PEOPLE HAD TO REMIND THEMSELVES OF IT MANY TIMES, AND MOST HAD TO WORK AT UNDERSTANDING IT FOR MANY YEARS -….BUT IT ALWAYS PROVED WORTH IT.
NO ATTENTION PAID, WHAT’S IN THE MIND,
JUST AWARE:– IT’S THERE.
POND FULL OF FISH,
THE SPLASHING OF WATER, FORGET THE FISH.
XXX
AN EXTERMINATOR IS ALWAYS CONSCIOUS IN THE PRESENT TENSE, HE THUS CAN BECOME, “MYSTERIOUSLY THOUGHTLESS”.
XXX
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ONE MAN WANTED TO CLEAR OUT HIS HOUSE, HE WAS UNABLE TO DO SO
DUE TO THE ATTENTION HE GAVE TO ITS CONTENTS.
DELIVERIES CAME CONSTANTLY TO ANOTHER MAN’S HOUSE, HE REFUSED TO EVEN LOOK AT THEM.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR RELIGIOUS MYSTICS & AN EXTERMINATOR IS THAT: SUCH MYSTICS WANT TO POSSESS NOTHING
WHILE AN EXTERMINATOR WANTS TO BE POSSESSED BY NOTHING.
AND A CERTAIN EXTERMINATOR EXPLAINS HIS ART:
“YOU CAN ‘RID-YOURSELF’ INSTANTLY BY JUST — DOING IT,
OR YOU CAN BECOME BOGGED DOWN IN WHAT YOU ACCEPT AS YOUR ATTEMPTS TO, ‘RID-YOURSELF, (WHICH AMOUNTS TO NOTHING MORE THAN A PROLONGED, ‘TALKING-TO-YOURSELF-ABOUT-IT’.
RIDDING YOURSELF IS A CLEARLY DISTINGUISHED ACT, INSTANTANEOUSLY TAKEN,
THEN, WILFULLY SUSTAINED.
YOU DO IT — YOU DO NOT, THINK-ABOUT-IT,
WHICH IS WHY I URGE ALL INTERESTED PERSONS TO:
PAY NO ATTENTION TO WHAT’S IN THE MIND, JUST BE AWARE — IT’S THERE.
IN THIS WAY YOU WILL KEEP YOURSELF FROM MERELY THINKING ABOUT, ‘RIDDING-YOURSELF’, AND CAN EXPERIENCE THE ‘MYSTERIOUS-THOUGHTLESSNESS’ WHEREBY THE FISH MAY STILL BE IN THE POND, BUT YOUR AWARENESS IS ONLY OF THE SPLASHING-OF-THE-WATER….WHICH IS NOT DISTRACTING IF YOU DO NOT LET ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE FISH LEAD YOU INTO THE LAND WHERE YOU ARE — STUFFED FULL.
RIDDING YOURSELF IS ALL THAT THIS IS ABOUT, AND IS ALL THAT YOU REALLY SEEK.
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TALK OF, “RIDDING-YOURSELF”,
AND ACTUALLY, “RIDDING-YOURSELF”, ARE BY COMPARISON:
HOLDING A CANDLE NEXT TO THE SUN.
XXX
A MAN SAYS TO AN EXTERMINATOR:
“I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU MEAN BY. BEING, ‘THOUGHTLESS’.”,
AND THE EXTERMINATOR REPLIED:
“NO ONE DOES IF THEY THINK ABOUT IT.”,
AND THUS WAS THE MAN MADE AWARE THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE
TALKING ABOUT IT EVEN TO HIMSELF, MUCH LESS TO ANYONE ELSE.
X X X
EVERY ORDINARY THOUGHT THAT YOU FOLLOW TAKES YOU FROM THE PRESENT TENSE,
AND DEPOSITS YOU IN THE USELESS LAND OF OTHERWISE.
AN EXTERMINATOR EXPLAINS:
“THE AIM IS TO RID YOURSELF OF EVERYTHING NOT FUNDAMENTAL,
NOTHING SUPERFLUOUS EXISTS IN THE MOMENT: IT CAN.ONLY BE MADE TO SEEM TO
BY YOU BEING — FULL OF THOUGHTFULNESS.”
X X X
IN A BEDROOM — TALK AWAKENS A MAN: :[N A MIND — IT DOES THE OPPOSITE.
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AN EXTERMINATOR SAYS TO AN INTERESTED AUDIENCE: “THE MORE COMPLEX IT IS MADE TO SEEM
THE HARDER IT IS TO OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE THE LIGHT —
AND DON’T BLAME IT ON ME:
I’M MAKING IT AS SIMPLE AS I CAN,
IT IS YOU WHO ARE COMPLEXIN’ IT UP BY YOUR CONTINUAL THINKING ABOUT IT.
WHEN YOU STRAIN TOO HARD TO SEE IT ONLY MAKES YOU BLINDER.”
XXX
STARRING, (IN THE MIND),
IS THE WAY TO ASSURE THOUGHTFULNESS,
AND TO KEEP YOURSELF — “FULL” —
FULL OF THAT WHICH YOU SEEK TO BE RID OF.
X X X
DON’T MISTAKE THE WORLD FOR YOURSELF:
DON’T LET EXTERNALS DICTATE YOUR INTERNALS.
EVERY WORD THAT YOU SEE OR HEAR IN THE EXTERNAL WORLD WHICH YOU THEN INTERNALLY REPEAT TO YOURSELF ADDS BUT MORE OF THE USELESS BAGGAGE OF WHICH YOU SEEK TO RID YOURSELF.
X X X
ONLY BY BEING THOUGHTLESS CAN YOU BE CONSCIOUSLY DELIBERATE,
AND ONLY BY BEING CONSCIOUSLY DELIBERATE CAN YOU IGNORE THE FISH.
TO BE MYSTERIOUSLY THOUGHTLESS IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE WITH OUT THOUGHTS,
ALL YOU NEED IS TO — PAY THEM NO HEED.
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SOME HOUSE CLEARING ADVICE:
WHAT GOOD IS A BARIUM EXTERMINATOR IF WHAT YOU WANT IS TO
RID YOURSELF OF MERCURY?!,
AND OF WHAT USE IS A WATER PURIFIER IN PACIFYING FISH?!
THE OPPOSITE OF THOUGHTLESSNESS IS — STARRING,
IN FACT, STARRING IS THE OPPOSITE OF EVERYTHING THAT’S NEAT.
WHEN A WARRIOR.COMES,IN FROM BATTLE HE LAYS HISHIELD ASIDE,
SHEATHES HIS SWORD, AND THEN-[, _HIS-GUARD-IS-DOWN,
BUT AN EXTERMINATOR MUST NEVER LET GUARD DOWN,
BUT MUST ALWAYS, FROM ONE SECOND TO THE NEXT, BE : VIRILE, VIGOROUS, AND VIGILANT.
POND FULL OF FISH,
THE SPLASH[NG OF WATER,
IGNORE THE FISH THRU THOUGHTLESSNESS,
X X X
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENLIGHTENMENT AND FOOLISHNES — THERE CANNOT BE —
THEY ARE THE SAME THING — THEY MUST BE —
THEY BOTH ARE — IN-THE-MIND.
XXX
HE WHO HAS RID-HIMSELF THINKS FROM THE POND — NOT FROM THE FISH: THIS IS BEING, “MYSTERIOUSLY THOUGHTLESS”.
XXX
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A MAN ASKED AN EXTERMINATOR TO CLEAR OUT HIS HOUSE,
AND THE EXTERMINATOR REPLIED:
“ONLY YOU CAN RID YOURSELF OF THAT WHICH YOU WANT TO BE RID OF,
AND MORE THAN THAT IS THE FACT THAT
WHAT YOU WANT TO BE RID OF DOESN”T REALLY EXIST TO BEGIN WITH.”
FISH-IN-THE-POND — INEVITABLE:
SOUND -OF-WATER — OF ITSELF, NOT DISTURBING:
BEING-DISTRACTED-BY-THE-FISH — “THE AVOIDABLE SITUATION”.
BEING THOUGHTLESS IN AN EXTERMINATOR’S SENSE
DOESN’T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT YOU ARE TOTALLY WITHOUT THOUGHTS, BUT WHAT IT DOES MEAN IS THAT YOU ARE CAPABLE OF DEALING WITH THEM IN A MANNER SATISFACTORY TO A PERSON WANTING TO RID THEMSELF.
NO ATTENTION PAID, WHAT’S IN THE MIND,
JUST AWARE — IT’S THERE.
XXX
WE LIVE AS ANTS DO, BUT THINK OTHERWISE: WE THINK AS HUMANS, BUT LIVE AS ANTS DO:
WE LIVE AS ANTS DO, AND THOSE WHO’VE RID THEMSELVES THINK NOT, OTHERWISE,
…(WHICH IS A FORM OF MYSTERIOUS THOUGHTLESSNESS REGARDING YOUR POSITION IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD,
AND ITS NORMALLY DISTORTED REFLECTION EN YOUR MENTAL ONE.)
XXX
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ONE EXTERMINATOR OBSERVES:
“THE FISH ARE WITH YOU ALWAYS,
SO JUST FORGET ABOUT THEM AND GET ON WITH YOUR REAL BUSINESS.
FISH CAN DRIVE YOU NUTS!,
BUT THE SOUND OF WATER SLOSHING IS ACTUALLY QUITE TOLERABLE.
AND NOTE:
WHEN YOU LOOK DOWN — ALL YOU SEE IS FISH, BUT, LOOK UP, AND ALL IS TRANSPARENT.
ONCE YOU IGNORE THE THRASHING OF THE FISH, THE WATER’S NO PROBLEM: ONCE YOU FORGET ABOUT THE FISH, YOUR POND IS THE SAME AS, “CALM”.
OUT IN THE YARD,
BY THE POND,
NO FAULT FOUND,
NO CORRECTION NEEDED;–
THE SOUND OF THE WATER — NO DISTRACTION.
YOU’RE — STILL-[N-THE-YARD…BY THE POND, BUT NOW: MYSTERIOUSLY THOUGHTLESS —
YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THE IMPROBABLE, YOU HAVE INDEED: “RID YOURSELF”, AND ACHIEVED ALL YOU’VE EVER DESIRED.
…AND AN OLD PRO CONFIDES:
“WHEN I BEGAN I WANTED TO ‘AWAKEN’ — TO BE, ‘ENLIGHTENED’, TO BE WISE: NOW ALL I WANT IS TO RID-MYSELF OF EVERYTHING NOT FUNDAMENTAL TO ME. THAT IS MORE REWARDING AND PROMISING THAN ALL THOUGHT-WRAPPED ENTERPRISES’, BECAUSE IT CONSISTS OF NOTHING BUT FREEDOM, FROM BEGINNING TO END, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, FROM FOOLISHNESS TO
ENLIGHTENMENT. AH TO, ‘RLD-YOURSELF’,THERE’S NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT.”
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…AND BY THE WAY:
THERE IS NO MYSTICAL,METAPHYSICAL EXPLANATION FOR THINGS, THERE IS A PHYSICAL, PHYSIOLOGICAL ONE.