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MY NEWS FOR JUNE 2, 1999
COPYRIGHT 1999 JAN COX
A MAN ASKED A MYSTIC: “WHAT IS THE WORST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO A MAN WHO UNDERTAKES THIS STRUGGLE: TO STOP BEFORE HE REALIZES ITS GOAL?”,
“NO.”, REPLIED THE MYSTIC, “THERE IS ONE THING WORSE:
TO LOSE YOUR VERVE FOR THE EFFORT WHILE STILL APPARENTLY INVOLVED.”, AND WHEN THE MAN ASKED HOW YOU KEEP THIS FROM OCCURRING, THE MYSTIC ADMITTED THAT TO BE A TOUGH QUESTION, BUT SAID THAT A MAN SHOULD DO, AND TRY ANYTHING TO PREVENT SUCH A LAPSE FROM BECOMING PERMANENT, AND OVERWHELMING,
HE SUGGESTED THAT A MAN CAN TRY AND OFTEN RECALL THE EXCITEMENT AND ANTICIPATION HE FELT WHEN HE FIRST DISCOVERED THE IDEA OF ACHIEVING ANOTHER ATTITUDE & UNDERSTANDING. THE POSSIBILITIES HAVE NOT CHANGED.
HE NOTED THAT A MAN SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE NORMAL EFFECTS OF AGING, UNDER WHICH HIS GENERAL LEVEL OF ENTHUSIASM DECREASES, AND HIS INTEREST EN NON ESSENTIAL MATTERS LESSENS,
THE MYSTIC POINTED OUT THAT MEN WITH JUST THE ATTITUDE & UNDERSTANDING
LIFE PROVIDES THEM BEGIN TO “DIE” IN A SENSE THAT IS QUITE REAL,
AND OBSERVABLE
LONG BEFORE THEY STOP BREATHING,
AND THAT THIS PROCESS IS SO NATURAL AND GRADUAL THAT IT CAN BE EXERTING
ITS INFLUENCE THROUGHOUT ALL AREAS OF HIS LIFE WITHOUT HIS
CONSCIOUS AWARENESS THEREOF,
AND THUS ONE WHO HAS BEEN WORKING TO CHANGE HIS INNER CONDITION MUST BE FOREMOST ON GUARD FOR THIS WHEN THE TIME IS APPROPRIATE,
THE MYSTIC FURTHER RESPONDED TO THE MAN’S CONCERN BY SAYING:
“SINCE WHAT YOU SEEK IS WITHIN YOU, AND NO WHERE ELSE,
AND IS NOT SOMETHING THAT MUST BE ‘DEVELOPED’,
THEN THE QUESTION, THE CHALLENGE IS SIMPLE:
HOW TO SHIFT YOUR FEELINGS & THINKING FROM WHERE YOU DO NOT WANT THEM TO BE,
TO WHERE YOU DO WANT THEM TO BE ?!
HOW TO SHIFT FROM BEING BUSY-MINDED, TO CLEAR-HEADED?!
FROM FEELING ANGRY-&-FEARFUL, TO BEING OF GOOD CHEER & FEARLESS ?!,
TO GO FROM NOISY & AGITATED TO, CALM & QUIET.
THE REAL TRICK IS IN FINDING HOW TO ‘MOVE AROUND’ WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW IN NEW WAYS THAT WILL TRIGGER MORE PERMANENT RESULTS — PURSUING THIS COURSE WILL PREVENT A FATAL LOSS OF VERVE & BRING YOU TO YOUR GOAL.”
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SCRATCHED ON THE CRUMBLING WALL OF AN ABANDONED MONASTERY
WERE THESE WORDS:
“THE HEAD DOZES WHILEST THE HEART IS ALWAYS AWAKE.”
— WHO SURVIVED WHO UNDERSTANDS THESE WORDS?!
WHO NOW LIVES WHO CAN DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THEIR POETIC APPEARANCE,
AND THEIR PRACTICAL INFORMATION?!
LEGEND TELLS OF A WANDERING MYSTIC WHO ONCE CAME UPON THIS WALL WITH ITS MESSAGE AND AFTER READING IT MADE BUT THIS COMMENT: “UNION IS HEAVEN — SEPARATION, HELL.”
XXX
TO USE THE MIND TO TRY AND CALM THE SURFACE OF THE POND IS TO AGITATE THE WATER FURTHER:
LEARN TO SURRENDER TO ITS NATURAL MOVING —
SUCH IS THE NATURE OF A POND, OUTSIDE IN THE WIND,
STOP AND LOOK AT IT —
APPRECIATE ITS NATURAL BEAUTY:
IT IS ACTUALLY QUITE A CHEERFUL SIGHT,
EXACTLY WHAT IS IT EN MAN THAT IS AGITATED? —
IT CANNOT BE SIMPLY THE MIND ITSELF FOR THERE IS SOMETHING OTHER THAN
THE MIND THAT PERIODICALLY COMES OUT OF THE DAZE,
AWAKENS FROM THE DAZE,
AND BOTHERS MUCH THE MIND OF THE MYSTIC,
BUT WHAT IS IT?, IT IS OBSERVABLY NOT THE MIND
FOR WHEN YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS IS BACK FULLY DOZING a DAZED,
AND YOUR MIND IS RUNNING TOTALLY AUTOMATICALLY,
IT HAS NO COMPLAINT WITH ITSELF:
IT DOES NOT WANT TO STOP OR INTERFERE WITH MECHANICAL OPERATION —
NO, WHATEVER IT IS IN YOU THAT FROM TIME TO TIME BECOMES AWARE OF
THIS EVERYDAY CONDITION AND WITH IT FINDS GRAVE FAULT
IS PLAINLY NOT THE MIND ITSELF.
SO- WHAT IS IT IN A MYSTIC THAT SO DETESTS HIS ORDINARY STATE OF MIND IF IT IS NOT THE MIND ITSELF?
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TO USE THE MIND TO TRY AND CALM THE SURFACE OF THE POND IS TO AGITATE THE WATER FURTHER:
LEARN TO SURRENDER YOURSELF TO ITS NATURAL MOTIONS,
FOR SUCH IS THE NATURE OF A POND — OUTSIDE, IN THE WIND,
STOP YOUR USELESS ANNOYANCE AT ITS MOVEMENT AND JUST LOOK AT IT!, APPRECIATE ITS NATURAL BEAUTY,
IT IS ACTUALLY QUITE A CHEERFUL SIGHT,
XXX
A MAN SAID TO A MYSTIC:
“EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE SAID THAT YOU HAVEN”T HELD ANYTHING BACK, ISN’T IT YET POSSIBLE THAT YOU HAVEN’T REALLY TOLD US EVERYTHING THAT YOU KNOW?!”, AND THE MYSTIC REPLIED: “YES, I GUESS THAT’S POSSIBLE —
SINCE EVEN I’M PROBABLY_NOT AWARE OF
EVERYTHING THAT I ACTUALLY KNOW AND NEITHER ARE YOU.”,
(HE QUICKLY ADDED BEFORE THE MAN COULD REACT TO HIS REPLY.)
XXX
EVERYTHING THAT A MAN SAYS BY WAY OF “SELF-PROMOTION” IS LIES, EVERYTHING THAT A MAN SAYS IS A FORM OF SELF-PROMOTION,
XXX
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PAST A CERTAIN PLACE IN THIS STRUGGLE, A MAN NO LONGER WANTS SIMPLY ANOTHER ALARM CLOCK WHICH WORKS ONLY WHEN HE THINKS ABOUT IT, AND DOES NOTHING UNTIL THE NEXT TIME HE REMEMBERS IT AGAIN, NO, WHAT A MAN WANTS IS SOME SORT OF ALARM WHOSE MERE PRESENCE KEEPS HIM FOREVER IN THE RIGHT STATE OF MIND AND PROPER MOOD.
…(SUCH AN ALARM LS ALREADY PRESENT IN MAN,:
THE TRICK IS TO FIRST REALIZE IT, AND THEN TO KEEP YOUR EYE ON IT.)
EX-PRISONERS ARE CONTINUALLY FORCED TO TEMPORARILY RETURN TO THEIR PREVIOUS PLACE OF CONFINEMENT,
SAY THAT THEY ARE “FORCED TO” SINCE I CAN CONCEIVE OF NO OTHER REASON THAT THEY WOULD DO SO. (?!?!)
ALL WORDS OF SELF-CONGRATULATIONS ARE FRAUDS,
ANYTHING A MYSTIC SAYS TO HIMSELF REGARDING WHAT HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED IS AN ADDITION TO HIS STOREHOUSE OF SELF-DECEPTION,
DON’T MISLEAD YOUR INTELLIGENCE AND SAY: “MY MIND MADE ME DO THAT-:-MY MIND MADE ME THINK THIS.”,
EXPAND YOUR AWARENESS TO TAKE IN THE AREA FROM WHICH YOUR MIND IS “MADE TO DO THIS AND THAT.”
…(I’LL TELL YOU NOW: WHEN YOU SEE IT — YOU GOTTA LOVE IT.)
RELATED GRAFFITI: “THE HEAD IS NOISY WHILE THE HEART IS QUIET.” — FINE SOUNDING WORDS, BUT WHO UNDERSTANDS HOW TO PUT THEM TO USE?!
QUESTION: WHO WOULD GIVE ONE ALARM CLOCK THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SETTING OFF A SECOND ALARM CLOCK WHICH IN TURN HAD THE ACTUAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THEN GOING OFF AND AWAKENING YOU?!
IT IS THE PLACE OF SILENCE THAT CAN BE THE SUPREME REMINDER.
XXX
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“HEY!”, SAID ONE MAN, “WHAT”S THAT NOISE I HEAR?”
“AH.”, SOMEONE REPLIED, “THAT’S JUST THE SOUND PRODUCED BY A
DROP IN CONSCIOUSNESS.”,
AND THE MAN SAID: “HOW DOES THAT KEEP HAPPENING?”,
AND SOMEONE REPLIED: “ONLY BY YOUR ALLOWANCE.”,
AND THE MAN OBJECTED: “BUT MY PERSISTING PLAN IS TO NOT ALLOW IT
TO OCCUR. WHY DO I CONTINUE TO FAIL? THE TASK SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE?!”,
AND SOMEONE REPLIED: “IT IS —
IF YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION IS FAULTY.”,
AND THE MAN SAID: “HOW CAN I TELL IF MY UNDERSTANDING OF IT
IS FAULTY OR NOT?”,
AND SOMEONE REPLIED: “BY THE MERE FACT OF WHETHER YOU ARE SUCCEEDING
EN YOUR EFFORTS OR NOT,
AND IF YOU ARE NOT,
THEN YOU SHOULD NOT ALLOW YOURSELF TO CONTINUE IN SUCH EFFORTS.
LOOK SOME PLACE ELSE INSIDE YOU:
WHEN THE CONSCIOUSNESS YOU’RE AWARE OF IN YOUR BRAIN SUDDENLY DROPS, IT IS BECAUSE YOUR AWARENESS IS OPERATING FROM AN AREA THAT
NOT ONLY ALLOWS THIS TO OCCUR, BUT ASSURES THAT IT WILL.
AT FIRST A MAN TURNS HIS MIND TO THE STUDY OF HIS MIND:
THEN, IF HE DOES NOT STUMBLE, OR GIVE UP IN FRUSTRATION, HE TURNS HIS MIND AWAY FROM HIS MIND AND SEARCHES FOR THE
MOTHER OF HIS MIND THE ‘HEART’ OF HIS MIND.
AFTER HE UNDERSTANDS FOR HIMSELF THE MEANING OF THESE WORDS, NO LONGER DOES HE HAVE TO CONSTANTLY SAY TO HIMSELF:
‘WHAT WAS THAT NOISE?!’ AND. ‘WHY DID I JUST LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS?!’
THERE IS A CERTAIN INNER UNION THAT WHEN ACHIEVED — IS HEAVEN, BUT WHEN A CERTAIN INNER SEPARATION PREVAILS — IT IS HELL.
AT THE VERY LEAST IT SHOULD ENCOURAGE A MAN TO KNOW THAT EVEN THE GREATEST OF UNIVERSAL EXTREMES EXIST SHOULDER TO SHOULDER
INSIDE OF HIM, AND THAT HIS ATTITUDE AND CONSCIOUSNESS OF LIFE CAN BE INSTANTLY SHIFTED FROM TORMENT TO PEACE BY HEM SIMPLY
TURNING HIS AWARENESS IN THE PROPER DIRECTION.
A SIMPLE SOUNDING CHORE, I’LL ADMIT,
BUT A DIFFICULT MATTER IT IN FACT SEEMS TO BE TO INSTANTLY GO FROM PURGATORY TO PARADISE WHEN ONE HAS THUS FAR LIVED ONE’S LIFE IN THE FORMER.
WE ALL KNOW BUT TOO OFTEN FORGET THAT: HABIT MAKES EVERYTHING ACCEPTABLE.”