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MY NEWS FOR MAY 10, 1999
ONE MAN CALLED HIS SCHOOL FOR AWAKENING: “YOU TALK TOO MUCH.”,
AND WHEN A PROSPECTIVE STUDENT WOULD ASK HIM: “WHAT IS,’TOO MUCH’?”, HE’D REPLIED: “SEE — YOU JUST DID IT.”
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A YOUNG MAN VISITED A MYSTICAL LODGE AND SAID TO ITS MASTER:
“I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED IN THE IDEA OF A GREATER STATE
OF CONSCIOUSNESS: WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT IT.”,
AND THE MYSTIC REPLIED: “YOU SEEM LIKE A NICE LAD
SO I’M GOING TO DO YOU A FAVOR AND NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ABOUT IT,
SO :[N THAT WAY YOU WON’T HAVE ANYTHING ADDITIONAL TO CLUTTER UP
YOUR MIND.”
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ONE MAN CALLED HIS APPROACH TO ENLIGHTENMENT: “YOU TALK TOO MUCH.”, AND WOULD NOTE THAT WHEN YOU LEARN WHAT IT IS TO TRULY “SHUT UP” THE UNIVERSE STANDS STILL.
HE FURTHER POINTS OUT THAT “SHUTTING UP” IS NOT THE SAME AS BEING QUIET: TRUE SHUTTING-UP IS IN RECOGNIZING THE CONDITIONAL USE OF ALL NOISE.
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THE HEAD OF ONE HEAD-CLEARING SCHOOL GIVES AS ONE YEAR’S LECTURE, THIS: “THE ONLY WORTHWHILE TO THINK ABOUT IS THE LIMITS OF THOUGHT.”
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AT THE GRAVE SITE A VOICE WAS HEARD CHANTING:
“ASHES TO TRASHES,
STINK TO ROT,
FORGIVE WHAT WE DID,
NOT WHAT WE NOT.”
YOU CAN ONLY THINK TOO MUCH — NEVER TOO LITTLE.
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A MAN ASKED A MYSTIC: “IT IS POSSIBLE TO GET ENLIGHTENED ABOUT NOTHING?”,
AND THE MYSTIC REPLIED: “THAT IS ALL THAT IS POSSIBLE:
ENLIGHTENMENT DOES NOT OCCUR ABOUT SOMETHING,
FOR ALL’SOMETHINGS’EXIST ONLY IN YOUR MIND,
AND TO LET YOUR ATTENTION DWELL ON THEM WILL BAR ENLIGHTENMENT
FROM YOUR LIFE.”
THUS IT BE SAID, RE-SAID, AND RE-SAID AGAIN & AGAIN THAT THERE IS “NOTHING TO THINK ABOUT” — REALLY AND TRULY, FOR THE FEW, THERE IS NOTHING TO THINK ABOUT — NOTHING THAT IS NOT A SOPORIFIC.
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ANY WORDS THAT SPEAK ON MYSTICAL MATTERS IN A WAY THAT YOU MAY FIND INTERESTING AND EVEN HELPFUL, AND NOT ACTUALLY WORDS ABOUT MYSTICAL MATTERS, BUT ARE SIMPLY WORDS ARRANGED IN A CERTAIN ORDER THAT SPARKS A PLEASURABLE REACTION IN YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU READ OR HEAR THEM.
OTHER THAN IN THE AREA OF THE SO-CALLED, “PHYSICAL SCIENCES”,
(WHICH BY THE WAY, IS WHAT MAKES THEM SO SINGULARLY_ATTRACTIVE TO A
CERTAIN TYPE OF PERSON.)
MEN DO NOT WRITE ON “SUBJECTS”: THEY DO NOT WRITE ON HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY,
SOCIOLOGY, ECONOMICS, ART, LITERATURE, MUSIC, AND SO ON:
THE MIND OF MAN CAN ONLY WRITE ABOUT WORDS,
(IN THE SAME WAY IT CAN ONLY THINK ABOUT THOUGHTS….
….WHICH IS ANOTHER SPLENDID EXAMPLE [AT LEAST FOR WORDS],
OF WHAT IS MEANT BY, “LIVING IN A MENTAL DREAM WORLD.”
ONE GUY CALLED HIS TECHNIQUE TO AWAKEN:
“NEVER THINK ABOUT ANY MATTER THAT YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ABOUT.”
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AND THIS RELATED FACT:
MEN WHO THINK ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES THEY’VE HAD THUS FAR IN THIS PURSUIT,
HAVE YET TO HAVE THAT “ONE” THAT THEY’RE AFTER.
SECOND COUSIN FACT:
THAT “ONE EXPERIENCE” THAT ALL MYSTICS SEEK
IS COVERED UP BY THE NEXT THOUGHT YOU’RE ABOUT TO THINK CONCERNING IT.
A YOUNG GIRL SAID TO THE HEAD OF A MYSTICAL ORDER:
“I HAVE LONG BEEN INTRIGUED BY THE IDEA THAT WE NORMALLY LIVE IN
A WORLD OF DREAMS & SHADOWS BUT CAN BECOME ENLIGHTENED AND SEE THE
WORLD AS IT REALLY IS. WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT,’BEING ENLIGHTENED’.”,
AND THE ELDER ONE REPLIED: “YOU SEEM LIKE A PLEASANT CHILD, ONE DESERVING OF NO ILL TREATMENT, SO I WILL BE KIND TO YOU, AND TELL YOU NOTHING WHATSOEVER ABOUT ‘BEING ENLIGHTENED’, AND BY SUCH REFRAIN YOU WILL BE SPARED THE ADDITION OF NEW, USELESS NONSENSE TO CLUTTER YOUR MIND.”
FACT: A MIND “CLUTTERED”, LIVES IN DARKNESS & DISTRACTION.
FACT: A MIND THINKING ABOUT LIGHT AND TRUE REALITY IS SERIOUSLY, “CLUTTERED.”
FACT: IS THERE NO WAY TO “THINK” WITHOUT HAVING YOUR MIND “CLUTTERED”? ANSWER: WHAT DO YOU THINK?!
IN A DREAM,
A CAGED TIGER IMAGINED HE WAS FREE,
AND WHEN HE AWOKE FROM THE DREAM, HE DESCRIBED IT TO A TIGER
IN AN ADJOINING CAGE WHICH GRADUALLY DROVE THEM BOTH CRAZIER THAN
THEY WERE ALREADY.
QUESTION: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE ORDINARY & THE ENLIGHTENED?, THE ORDINARY HAVE THE GOOD SENSE NOT TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN DREAMS, AND REALITY.
PACE, PACE, PACE, DREAM, DREAM, DREAM:
SEE, SEE, SEE, REST, REST, REST.