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MY NEWS FOR JUNE 23, 1999 COPYRIGHT 1999 JAN COX
A MAN NOTES: “WHEN I WAS NOT ENLIGHTENED I HAD MANY IDEAS ABOUT IT: NOW THAT I AM ENLIGHTENED, I HAVE NONE.”
AND A MAN ASKED A MYSTIC:”WHERE DO YOU GET ALL YOUR IDEAS?”,
AND THE MYSTIC OPENED UP HIS ARKS IN AN ALL EMBRACING GESTURE AND SAID: “EVERY WHERE.”, AND THE MAN THEN SAID: BUT YOU NEVER LEAVE YOUR HOUSE.”, “YEAH, I KNOW.”, REPLIED THE MYSTIC, “WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU ABOUT, YOU-KNOW-,HATS?”
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THE ONLY WAY IN WHICH A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE MIGHT BE A “DANGEROUS THING” IS IF YOU BELIEVE THAT HAVING MORE WOULD IMPROVE YOUR CONDITION
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A KING ONCE SAID: “IF I WANT TO PUNISH A PROVINCE
I APPOINT A “THINKER”- TO :BE ITS GOVERNOR.”
…AND IT’S GOOD TO SEE THAT THE EXERCISE OF POWER STILL HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THAT “SPECIAL AIM” OF PEOPLE LIKE US.
A CERTAIN SOCIAL CRITIC HAS SAID: “ALTHOUGH THE MEANS OF TRAVEL HAVE GREATLY EXPANDED IN RECENT TIMES, THE PLACES TO GO
REMAIN ABOUT THE SAME AS THEY’VE ALWAYS BEEN.”,
…AND IT IS ADDITIONALLY REASSURING TO NOTE THAT ROUTINE
HUMAN OBSERVATIONS HAVE NOTHING IN COP’: UN WITH THAT EXTRAORDINARY CHALLENGE CONFRONTING THOSE SEEKING ENLIGHTENMENT.
EVERYONE, (IN A CERTAIN WAY), HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED, AND ONLY THOSE WHO REALIZE WHAT’S GOING ON HAVE THE RIGHT SUSPECT UNDER Surveillance,
AND ONE PAN REFLECTS: “WHEN I BEGAN ALL OF THIS, I LEARNED THE MOST FROM BOOKS: THEN I LEARNED THE MOST FROM OTHER PEOPLE: THEN I LEARNED THE MOST FROM NATURE, AND THEN FROM NY OWN M[ND, AND THEN — RIGHT ABOUT THEN, I BLANKED OUT, AND WHEN I CAPE TO I’D FORGOTTEN MOST OF
WHAT I KNEW, SUCH IS MY STORY. WHAT D’YA THINK ?!?!”
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NO ONE IS IMMUNE FROM HAVING THOUGHTS THAT ARE PURE RUBBISH: THE TRICK IS NOT TO SQUINT UP YOUR EYES AND TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY WHEN THEY OCCUR.
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ALMOST ALL OF THE “TRUTH-TELLING” THAT TAKES PLACES IN THIS WORLD IS DONE EITHER BY CHILDREN, OR BY THOSE WHO OBVIOUSLY DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT.
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IN THE BEGINNING YOU WANT TO STOP YOUR MECHANICAL SIGNING TO YOURSELF: EVENTUALLY YOU WANT TO BE FREE OF THE SELF THAT LISTENS TO THE SINGING.
ONE MAN SAYS: “LOOKING BACK ON IT NOW, I REGRET THE NUMBER OF YEARS
I WASTED IN REACTING TO MY OWN THOUGHTS.”, AND HIS BROTHER ASKED:
“WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE RATHER BEEN WASTEFULLY REACTING TO?”.
…AND IT IS ALSO BRACING TO REALIZE THAT INNER FAMILY CONFLICTS
ARE IN NO WISE RELATED TO THE LONG AND TEDIOUS ATTEMPT TO AWAKEN, HUH?!)
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THERE WAS ONCE A WORM WHO MADE GOD MAD AND THE BIG GUY HURLED DOWN A THUNDERBOLT THAT CUT THE WORM INTO TWO PIECES,
BOTH OF WHICH SURVIVED, BUT WITH ONE PART NOW CLAIMING TO SPEAK-FOR, AND TO REPRESENT THE WHOLE CREATURE:
THE OTHER PART NEVER SAID ANYTHING AFTER THE INCIDENT, BUT AS IT SO HAPPENED, IT WAS THE PART THAT IN FACT RAN THE WORM’S WHOLE SHOOTIN’ MATCH.
AND WHAT MIGHT BE OF SOME PASSING INTEREST TO A FEW OF YOU IS THAT THE TALKING PART THAT CLAIMED AUTHORITY FOR THE WHOLE WORM
SEEMED TO SENSE THAT SOMETHING WAS AMISS, AND SPENT MUCH OF ITS TIME ENGAGED IN WHAT IT CALLED, “SELF IMPROVEMENT”.
…JUST IMAGINE THAT, “SELF IMPROVEMENT” FOR A WORN — NO, GOTTA MAKE THAT FOR: “HALF A WORM”! — QUITE A PICTURE, HUH?! …WOW!, SURE MAKES YOU GLAD TO BE A HUMAN, HUH?!
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TO BE “ASLEEP” IS TO — LIVE WITH A STRANGER,
AND THE “STRANGER” IS NOT YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS
WHICH IS THE SOURCE OF SUCH NOTIONS AS, BEING ASLEEP”,
NO, UNDER THE SWAY OF CONSCIOUSNESS THE STRANGER YOU LIVE WITH
IS YOUR ESSENTIAL SELF,
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CONVERSATION:
FIRST MAN: “DO YOU SUFFER?”
SECOND MAN: “I ASSUME THAT ALL FEN SUFFER IN SOME FASHION.” FIRST MAN: “WELL, WHAT SPECIFICALLY DO YOU SUFFER FROM?” SECOND MAN: “THERE DOESN’T SEEM TO BE A NAME FOR IT.” FIRST NAN: “OH, I DIDN’T KNOW YOU WERE TRYING TO AWAKEN.”
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FOR THE FEW, THE USEFULNESS BEHIND THE EXHORTATION: “KNOW THYSELF”, IS IN THE REALIZATION THAT THE SELF THAT MAKES THE EXHORTATION IS NOT YOUR ESSENTIAL SELF,
LIVING WITH A STRANGER IN APPARENT CHARGE
IS THE CAUSE OF THE FRUSTRATION FOR THE FEW,
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“JUST CONSIDER”, NOTES ONE CHAP, “WERE IT NOT FOR OUR THOUGHTS ON THE MATTER —- WE’D BE JUST AS HAPPY, IGNORANT AND ASLEEP AS WE IMAGINE WE’D BE, ENLIGHTENED AND AWAKE.”
AHHHHH, THE HUMILIATION OF BEING CAUGHT
PRETENDING TO RUN A BOOKIE OPERATION WHEN IN FACT IT WAS JUST A FRONT
FOR A FRUIT STAND SAME SITUATION THAT OCCURS REGARDING THE
“SELF” THAT’S PUT FORWARD BY CONSCIOUSNESS COMPARED TO THE ESSENTIAL ONE.
AHHHHHH, THE SHAME AND EMBARRASSMENT OF IT ALL. AHHH, THE SHAME.
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HERE’S A LITTLE TRICK FOR YOU: DON’T EVEN PRETEND TO TAKE THE MEDICINE EXCEPT WHILE YOU’RE UNDER THE DOCTOR’S CARE,
AND ONLY PLAY LIKE THAT YOU’RE TRYING TO “CHANGE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS” WHILE YOU’RE STILL UNDER THE SWAY OF STUPIDITY,
ONE MAN STARTED OUT READING COMIC BOOKS: THEN TO REQUIRED SCHOOL BOOKS: THEN ON HIS OWN INITIATIVE, BEGAN READING PHILOSOPHICAL BOOKS,
AND WHEN THEY PROVED INFERTILE, HE MOVED ON TO READING METAPHYSICAL BOOKS, AND DISCOVERED THE WHOLE SCENE OF PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO IMPROVE THEIR STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, AND HE TOO BECAME SO INVOLVED AND EVENTUALLY DEVOURED MOST OF THE WORLD’S LITERATURE ON THE SUBJECT,
TODAY HE SEES ALL BOOKS AS – COMIC BOOKS. (AN OFF-SHOOT, I SUSPECT OF HIM FINALLY SEEING ALL MENTAL ACTIVITY AS, CLOWN-SCHOOL AND SILLY-PUTTY.)
ONE GUY POETICIZES: “I BE COOL,
I BE HIP,
LONG AS I
DON’T MOVE MY LIP.”,
(HE GOES ON TO SAY): ” I USED TO CONSIDER MYSELF QUITE INTELLIGENT„.
…UNTIL I “WOKE UP”, (AS THEY CALL IT),
AND INSTANTLY REALIZED WHAT’S ACTUALLY GOING ON
SINCE THEN I NO LONGER CONSIDER MYSELF INTELLIGENT,
NOR DO I CONSIDER MYSELF NOT INTELLIGENT:
I SIMPLY NO LONGER CONSIDER MYSELF,
SEEING AS HOW I SPENT ALL MY TIME ‘TIL NOW BEING CONCERNED WITH THE
WRONG SELF.
I NOW HAVE NO ATTENTION TO GIVE TO ANYTHING BUT. NY ESSENTIAL “ME” THAT WHICH I FINALLY RECOGNIZED AFTER THE MANY YEARS OF THAT UBIQUITOUS AND IRREGULAR ACTIVITY I PURSUED.
… AND THANK GOD, I MIGHT ADD), FOR ITS UBIQUITY AND IRREGULARITY: I DON’T SEE HOW ANYTHING LESS WOULD HAVE WORKED.”
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ALL VACUOUS GROUPS DEDICATED TO A CHANGE IN CONSCIOUSNESS HAVE AN ESTABLISHED METHOD OF ACHIEVING SAME: ANY REAL SUCH ACTIVITY HAS NONE,
A SCHOOL WITH A HISTORY, A HERO, A SOLID FOUNDATION,
AND REGULAR CURRICULUM WILL TAKE YOU NO WHERE,
QUESTION: ARE YOU STUDYING IN SUCH A SCHOOL WITHIN YOURSELF?
TO THE STOMACH ALL FOOD IS JUST FOOD: TO THE MIND ALL IDEAS ARE JUST IDEAS:
IF YOU ARE GOING TO WORSHIP SOMETHING,
MAKE A BOW IN THE DIRECTION OF FUNGIBILITY,
REMEMBER: WHAT YOU EAT BECOMES YOU
ONLY CONSCIOUSNESS AND OTHER CHILDISH ACTIVITIES CONTINUE TO RECITE THIS TRUISM BASSACKWARDS,
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“A CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES IS NOT NECESSARILY AN IMPROVEMENT.”,
NOTED A PRISONER AS HE WAS LET OUT OF HIS CELL TO WALK TO THE GUILLOTINE,
MOVING AT THE WRONG SPEED, (USUALLY, TOO FAST), ENCOURAGES YOUR SEPARATION,
AND WITHIN THE DARK INTERIOR, A VOICE ASKED:
“WILL YOU BE HERE WHEN I RETURN?”, AND A RESPONSE, BATHED IN ILLUSIONARY LIGHT REPLIED: “I AM ALWAYS HERE,”
THE SEPARATION THAT OCCURS AUTOMATICALLY IN MAN AS A RESULT OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT THE ONLY ONE POSSIBLE:
THERE IS A SECOND SEPARATION – A WILLFUL ONE —
THAT IS THE AIM OF THE ENLIGHTENED.
…(ONE OF BUDDHA’S SECRET SAYINGS WAS: “DON’T HANG OUT WITH CHUMPS.”)
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THERE WAS ONCE AN ANIMAL COMPOUND WITH SUNDRY DOGS,
EACH WITH HIS OWN TEMPERAMENT,
AND AN UNWRITTEN RULE OF THE PLACE SEEMED TO BE THAT
EACH CUR BECOME AWARE OF HIS, AND THEN ATTEMPT TO ALTER IT,
MOST OF THEM DIE NOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY A FEW DID,
AND THE MORE OBVIOUS BECAME THE FUTILITY OF THEIR EFFORTS, THE MORE GRANDIOSE BECAME THEIR DESCRIPTIONS THEREOF.
…(ONE OF KRISHNA’S SECRET SAYINGS WAS:
“LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE, AND DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME: A SLEEPING DOG CANNOT BE AWAKENED.”)
A BOY SAID TO HIS FATHER: “WHY DON’T YOU COKE ON OUT WITH IT,
AND JUST SAY THAT OUR CONSCIOUS-SELF IS OUR “FALSE” SELF?!”,
AND THE ELDER REPLIED: “BECAUSE UNLESS YOU SEE TO THE HEART OF CONSCIOUSNESS FOR YOURSELF,
YOUR CONSCIOUS SELF IS NOT FALSE: IT IS THE ONLY ONE THAT YOU KNOW.
THE KEY WORD HERE BEING THAT IT IS THE ONLY SELF THAT YOU “KNOW”: THE “KNOWING” BEING VIA THE THINKING THAT NATURALLY GOES ON
IN YOUR CONSCIOUS SELF.”
…(AND ONE OF ZARATHUSTRA’S PRIVATE PROVERBS WAS:
“NEVER RELY ON ANY INFO THAT HAS A SELF-SERVING INTEREST THEREIN — AND: ALL INFO HAS SUCH AN INTEREST,
WHY DO YOU THINK MEN EVER STARTED REFERRING TO THEIR FALSE SELF AS, “THEM SELF”, OTHER THAN TO TRY AND COVER UP THE FACT THAT IT’S NOT SO?!”)
WHILE RIDING ALONG THE TRAIL, A MAN CAME UPON A SIGN WITH AN ARROW
THAT POINTED THE WAY TO, “CONSCIOUSNESS”:
HE TURNED HIS STEED ASIDE, AND RODE OFF IN ANOTHER DIRECTION, AS HE SANG: “OH CARRY ME NOT,
TO THAT GREAT DIVIDE….”
(ONE OF MUHAMMAD’S “INSIDER’S REMARKS” WAS:
“IF YOU’RE GONNA COME HOME — COME HOME ALONE.”
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WHEN ONE MAN HEARD THE WITTICISM:_”BEING -JEWISH DOESN’T KEEP YOU
FROM SINNING — IT JUST KEEPS YOU FROM ENJOYING IT.”
HE WAS STUNNED BY THE SIMILARITY OF HOW “TRYING TO AWAKEN”,
EVEN WHEN IT DOESN’T SUCCEED,
STILL MANAGES TO SPOIL THE FUN OF, “BEING ASLEEP” THAT
EVERYONE ELSE ENJOYS,
…(MOSES HAD HIS OWN FAVORITE, PRIVATE:COMMENT:
“IT DOESN’T MATTER EXACTLY WHERE-THE PROMISED LAND IS, JUST GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!”, YOU SEE, HE REALIZED THAT THE EGYPT OF HIS CAPTIVITY WAS A FIGMENT OF HIS CONSCIOUSNESS.)
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NOW, BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE STORE ALL IN A HUFF, TRY THIS ON FOR SIZE: IF YOU AIM TO FAIL RATHER THAN TO SUCCEED THERE IS SOME CHANCE YOU MAY SUCCEED.
(AND ONCE AGAIN I AM PROUD TO REPORT THAT THIS PARTICULAR PIECE OF NEWS HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH A PERSON’S EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE A CHANGE IN CONSCIOUSNESS,
ADDITIONAL NOTE FROM THE RE-FITTING DEPART IN THE BACK OF THE SHOP:
A MAN’S “CONSCIOUS-SELF” IS ONLY SMART AND RELIABLE WHEN IT IS ENGAGED IN MATERIAL “PROBLEM SOLVING” IN THE REAL, MATERIAL WORLD:
THE REST OF THE TIME A NAN’S “CONSCIOUS-SELF” IS SORT OF LIKE A. …WELL…HARMLESS JOKE — KINDA LIKE A SPOOF OF A REAL PERSON,
HERE, ALLOW ME TO LET THAT SEAM OUT A BIT FOR YOU:
ONLY CONSCIOUSNESS IS SERIOUS — YOUR ESSENTIAL SELF, NEVER,
SERIOUSNESS IS A COVER FOR EXTREME UNCERTAINTY,
A STATE TOTALLY UNKNOWN TO THE REAL, ESSENTIAL YOU,
SO:
WHERE IS THE DANGER IN AIMING TO FAIL RATHER THAN SUCCEED SINCE ‘THE ESSENTIAL, LIFE-SUSTAINING PART OF YOU IS NOT PLAYING THE GAME ANY WAY?!
AND SHOULDN’T WE SEND UP A FINAL, “THANKS BE TO ZEUS” FOR THE
UBIQUITY, THE FUNGIBILITY, THE IRREGULARITY AND THE FOOLISHNESS OF:
“THE GREAT, SECRET MYSTICAL WORK.”,
AN EFFORT DEDICATED TO ACCOMPLISHING THAT WHICH IS ALREADY A FAT ACCOMPLI
WHEEE!
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ONE MAN SAYS:
“IF I WERE TO DESCRIBE WHAT IT IS TO TRY TO CHANGE ONE’S CONSCIOUSNESS,
(BASED ON WHAT I NOW UNDERSTAND),
I WOULD SAY THAT IT IS LIKE TRYING TO GET A DOG
WHO’S STRAYED INTO YOUR YARD
TO DO A TRICK,
AND AS HE KEEPS STUMBLING AT IT,
YOU KEEP SAYING: “GOOD BOY, JUST KEEP TRYING — I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT.”,
AND ALL THE WHILE, GLANCING AROUND FOR A GUN,
THE “GUN”, MY FRIENDS, IS IN SEALING OFF CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE AWARENESS OF YOUR ESSENTIAL SELF.
…THAT’S ALL THERE IS TO IT,
THIS SEPARATION MAKES YOU AGAIN WHOLE.