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MY NEWS FOR MAY 31, 1999 COPYRIGHT 1999 JAN COX
A MAN HAD A MACHINE THAT PRODUCED ZERGETS:
IT DID SO AUTOMATICALLY AND CONTINUALLY:
THE MAN CAME TO DISLIKE THE ZERGETS, AND TO TRY TO CHANGE THE SITUATION
HE TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO THE SERGETS THEMSELVES:
AFTER EXTENSIVE TIME SPENT ALONG THIS LINE HE DISCOVERED THAT
HIS EFFORTS HAD NO PERMANENT EFFECT:
THIS REALIZATION LEFT HIM PUZZLED AND DISAPPOINTED! —
FOR WHAT ELSE COULD HE DO? —
THEN IT HIT HIM: “WHY NOT TURN MY ATTENTION TO THE MACHINE
THAT PRODUCES THE ZERGETS?! — WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT BEFORE?!”,
AND THE REASON BEING THAT THE MACHINE DOESN’T PRODUCE ZERGETS THAT
RAISE THAT POSSIBILITY.
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ALLOWING THE MIND TO MEASURE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN HERE & THERE ONLY INCREASES THE DISTANCE.
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MEN BATTLING IMAGINARY FOES IS NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY: MEN SURRENDERING THEIR INTELLIGENCE TO
THE REALIZATION OF THE SITUATION IS HOWEVER
A ‘RARA AVIS.’
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DISCOVERING THE FIXED LIMITS OF THE MIND BECOMES THE LAUNCHING PAD INTO AN UNLIMITED WORLD OF MIND,
LETTING THOUGHTS THEMSELVES DICTATE THE TERMS OF WHAT THEY REPRESENT LEAVES THEM REPRESENTING NOTHING OF USE TO A HUNGRY MAN.
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A MYSTIC WAS ASKED WHY HE MADE UP STORIES ABOUT SOME MAN SAYING THIS-OR-THAT ABOUT SOME SUBJECT RATHER THAN HIM JUST SAYING IT HIMSELF, AND THE MYSTIC REPLIED: “SIMPLE —
I DON’T WANT TO GIVE EVEN THE APPEARANCE THAT
I KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT,”
ACCEPTING THE FRUSTRATION OF THOUGHT IS THE BEGINNING OF FREEDOM FROM FRUSTRATION,
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AFTER HEARING OF THE TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO ACHIEVING A NEW
UNDERSTANDING OF “BEING ALIVE”,
(THAT OF USING THE MIND AND THE OTHER OF USING FEELING),
ONE MAN OBJECTS:
“BUT HOW CAN I POSSIBLY EFFECT THE WAY I FEEL?! —
MY FEELINGS JUST HAPPEN?!”,
AND WHILE AT FIRST BLUSH, THE FEELING APPROACH MANY SEEM IMPROBABLE,
YOU NEED CONSIDER THE FACT THAT THE SAME PROBLEM PREVAILS
REGARDING WHAT YOU THINK: YOUR THOUGHTS JUST “HAPPEN”?!
SO: WHICH WILL IT BE:
WILL YOU TRY TO UNTIE AN IMAGINARY KNOT?, OR ATTEMPT TO HANG FROM AN INVISIBLE ROPE?
FACING UP TO THE IMPOTENCY OF IDEAS THAT SEEM TO “MAKE SENSE” BEGINS THE BIRTH OF YOU HAVING REAL SENSE,
MAMA, DON’T LET YOUR COWBOYS GROW UP TO BE MYSTICS –
…NOT UNLESS’EN THEY SWEAR TO YOU THAT THEY’LL LEARN TO EXPAND THEIR LITTLE LASSOOS OUT LARGE ENOUGH TO ROPE IN ALL OF CREATION,
WAY, WAY OUT THERE,
ON THE TOTALLY OPEN PLAINS OF THE UNIVERSE,
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MYSTIC AND AN ENLIGHTENED MYSTIC
IS THAT AN UNLIGHTENED MYSTIC FINALLY FINDS AN AGREEABLE PLACE TO STOP.
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A MAN WHO TURNS HIS THOUGHTS TO STOPPING A WHIRLWIND ONLY INCREASES ITS VELOCITY,
WHO TRIES TO REASON WITH A WEED?!, IMPLORING ITS STALKS NOT TO GROW?!
ONLY MYSTICAL COWPOKES RIDING TOO LONG UNENLIGHTENED ON THE RANGE CONTINUE TO TAKE THE TALK IN THEIR HEAD AS BEING A CONVERSATION THEY HAVE WITH THEMSELF,
THEN ONE SADDLE-WISE SIDE-WINDER COMMENCED TO SING: “OH GIVE ME A HOME,
WHERE I’M THERE ALONE,
JUST ME AND THE ZERGET MACHINE:
THEN GRANT ME THE WILL,
TO STAND THERE REAL STILL,
AND NOT TRY TO PUSH WATER BACK IN A HOSE.”
THE FIRST MYSTIC ASKED THE SECOND MYSTIC:
“HOW DO YOU FEEL?”, AND THE SECOND MYSTIC REPLIED:
“HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL?”, AND THE FIRST MYSTIC SAID:
“I DON’T KNOW: HOW DO YOU THINK YOU FEEL?”, AND THE SECOND MYSTIC
REPLIED: “WHEN I THINK ABOUT HOW I FEEL,
I DON’T FEEL LIKE I DID BEFORE I THOUGHT ABOUT IT.”,
THEN THE FIRST MYSTIC SAID: “SO WHAT D’YA THINK ABOUT THAT?”,
AND THE SECOND MYSTIC REPLIED: “I FEEL LIKE THAT MAY BE AN
UNANSWERABLE QUESTION?”, AND THE FIRST MYSTIC ASKED:
“WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT?”, AND THE SECOND MYSTIC REPLIED BY
ASKING: “YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE THAT’S A LEGITIMATE RESPONSE
TO YOUR QUESTION?”, AND THE FIRST MYSTIC SAID:”WELL..,
CAN’T SEEM TO BE TRULY CERTAIN THAT I THINK THAT FEELING
LIKE THAT IS THE PROPER RESPONSE.”,
AND JUST AS THE SECOND MYSTIC WAS ABOUT. TO SPEAK AGAIN
I GOT THE HELL OUTTA THERE,
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN A MYSTICAL METEOROLOGIST AND AN ENLIGHTENED MYSTICAL METEOROLOGIST IS THAT WHEN IT RAINS, THE ENLIGHTENED ONE
LOOKS AT CLOUDS NOT RAIN.
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IN THE SEARCH FOR A TREASURE, TWO ASPECTS MUST BE CONSIDERED:
FIRST IS THE FINDING IT,
AND SECOND IS IN KEEPING IT,
AND AS CONCERNS THE PRIZE SOUGHT BY THE FEW,
KEEPING IT AFTER YOU FIND IT CONSISTS OF
GIVING YOURSELF OVER TO IT.
IF THIS SEARCH BE LABELED A “BATTLE”,
THEN THE VICTOR THEREOF, AS HIS ULTIMATE ACT — SURRENDERS HIMSELF.
ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS CAN UNDERSTAND THIS.
ONLY THOSE WHO CAN FEEL IT DON’T HAVE TO ANALYZE IT.
THE FURTHER OUT YOU CAN RIDE ON THE OPEN PLAINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS THE FAINTER BECOMES THE CLAMMER OF THE CITY, AND LESSER IS ITS EFFECTS.
FEELS — GOOD-D-D OUT THERE.
A FEELING OF GOOD, DIFFICULT TO REVERSE,
IN THAT IT HAS NO CAUSE KNOWN TO THE MIND.
INITIALLY ONE MAN WAS DISTURBED WHEN HE HEARD THE STATEMENT:
“‘TIS DIFFICULT TO TALK ABOUT THE MIND: IMPOSSIBLE TO, ABOUT FEELING.”, BUT LATER SHOUTED: “WHOO-PEE! – WHAT AN UNEXPECTED BONUS.”
EVEN WHEN YOU SPEAK OF THE MEND YOU ALSO SPEAK OF FEELING: COMPLAINTS WITH THE ZERGETS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE MACHINE THAT
PRODUCES THEM (AND MIGHT I NOTE FOR YOU THAT”MACHINES”
PAY NO ATTENTION TO COMPLAINTS.)
A MAN SAID TO A MYSTIC: “I HAVE GAINED MUCH FROM YOUR WISDOM, BUT WHY DO YOU INSIST ON SAYING THAT YOU JUST MAKE IT ALL UP?”, AND THE MYSTIC GOT A TRAPPED ANIMAL LOOK IN HIS EYES, BECAME FIDGETY, GLANCING LEFT AND RIGHT, APPARENTLY UNABLE TO REPLY, THEN FINALLY MUMBLED: “I JUST SOME TIMES FEEL LIKE IT.”
THE ONLY HALF-WAY ACCEPTABLE EXPLANATION FOR A MAN SUFFERING FROM, “ZERGET OVER-LOAD” WOULD BE IF HE SAID: “THE MACHINE MADE ME DO IT.”,
(AND EVEN THEN, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE SAID ONLY TO HIMSELF…AND EVEN THEN,
NOT IN WORDS.)
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THE “SURRENDER” I NOTED SUPRA,
REGARDING AN ENLIGHTENED MYSTICAL WARRIOR’S FINAL VICTORIOUS ACT, IS NOT A SURRENDER TO SOME “THING” OR FORCE,
BUT A SURRENDER TO THE REALITY THAT BECOMES CLEAR TO THE ENLIGHTENED UPON COMPLETION OF THE APPARENT STRUGGLE IN WHICH THEY HAVE
BEEN INVOLVED:
IT IS DELIGHTED SURRENDER TO THE FACT THAT NO ACTUAL CONFLICT EXISTS, AND SURRENDER TO THE REALITY, ERGO THAT THERE IS NO ONE IN CHARGE OF ANY COMBAT FORCES —
THERE IS SIMPLY NO ONE, NO THING IDENTIFIABLE OR CONCEIVABLE THAT IS “IN CHARGE” — PERIOD.
REALIZING THIS UNCONDITIONALLY AND NON-VERBALLY IS THE SWEET, SWEET SURRENDER OF THE ENLIGHTENED — THE VICTORIOUS.
NO ONE, INCLUDING YOU, IS IN CHARGE OF WHAT YOU THINK, OR HOW YOU FEEL,
AND ONLY UNENLIGHTENED MYSTICS THINK AND FEEL OTHERWISE;
THE FAILURE TO SURRENDER IS A SIGN OF A MYSTIC WHO HAS YET TO CONQUER: SUCH A FAILURE TO SURRENDER IS NOT EVIDENCE OF VALOR, BUT PROOF OF IGNORANCE,
TO FIGHT THE GOOD MYSTICAL FIGHT IS TO STRUGGLE ON UNTIL THE NATURE OF THE STRUGGLE IS RECOGNIZED: ENGAGEMENT IN
ANY HOSTILE ACTIVITY AFTER THAT CAN ONLY BE ATTRIBUTED TO: “POST-COMBAT,IMAGINARY TRAUMA BROUGHT. ON BY A
RE-LAPSE INTO FOOLISHNESS.”
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TO BE ORDINARY IS TO BE BORN, LIVE & DIE AT HOME,
AND BE SATISFIED WITH DREAMS OF GOING ELSEWHERE:
TO BE A MYSTIC IS TO TRY TO ACTUALLY GO OTHER PLACES,
AND TO BE PARTIALLY ENLIGHTENED IS TO REALIZE THE FUTILITY OF YOUR EFFORT,
AND TO :BE FULLY ENLIGHTENED IS TO FORGET THE WHOLE AFFAIR,
…(AND JUST PUTTER AROUND THE HOUSE LIKE YOU’D A’DONE ANY HOW.)
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MYSTICS, IN THE ATTEMPT TO BE THEIR OWN BEST FRIEND, BECOME FOR A WHILE, THEIR OWN ENEMY.
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WHAT THE ORDINARY TAKE TO BE, “THE FORGIVENESS OF GOD”
IS FOR THE ENLIGHTENED, THEIR ABANDONMENT OF HAVING BEEN SO BLIND
AS TO BELIEVE THAT THEY COULD ACTUALLY OBTAIN ANOTHER STATE OF MIND.
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IF YOU COULD TOTALLY LOOK AWAY FROM YOURSELF JUST ONCE,
YOU’D THEN SEE YOURSELF:
AND IF YOU COULD COMPLETELY ABANDON YOURSELF JUST FOR A MOMENT, YOU’D THEN DISCOVER YOURSELF,
A MAN UNDERTOOK TO FIND HIS UNKNOWN TWIN SELF,
A SPIRIT WHICH AT FIRST TORMENTED HIM — THEN REWARDED HIM, AND WHEN THEY FINALLY MET, CAUSED HIM TO LOSE ALL SENSE OF PERSONAL IDENTITY,
ONE ENLIGHTENED MAN’S EPITAPH SAID:
“ONCE I KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING:
ONCE I THOUGHT I KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING:
THEN I REALIZED THAT I PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW:
THEN I BECAME DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THINKING ABOUT WHETHER I KNEW OR NOT,
AND THEN, DEAR FRIEND — I DEED. I FINALLY DEED.”
…(WILL WE BE ABLE TO SO INSCRIBE ON YOUR HEADSTONE?!)
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NIGHT HAS LONG AGO PASSED,
YET STILL YOU SLUMBER:
DREAMING THAT YOU SEEK,
NOT REALIZING THAT YOU ARE BOTH THE SEEKER,
AND THE SOUGHT-FOR,
TO AWAKEN TO THIS FACT 7– IN THOUGHT AND FEELING — IS TO DIE: TO DIE TO MEANINGLESS DISSATISFACTION, AND ALL USELESS EFFORT.