An Enlightened Man Would Abide but One Emotion: Laughing…
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MY NEWS FOR OCTOBER 11, 1999
COPYRIGHT 1999 JAN COX
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LOST IN THE LONG AGO MIST OF MYTH IS THE STORY OF A MAN WHO ESTABLISHED A SCHOOL DEVOTED TO ACHIEVING “AWAKENING”, AND WHO, THROUGHOUT THE TIME IT WAS IN OPERATION WOULD, EVERY FEW YEARS, CHANGE THE DESCRIPTION OF THE METHODS EMPLOYED TO REACH THE GOAL, (TO THE CONSTERNATION AND CONFUSION OF SOME).
BUT THE MAN DIRECTING THE OPERATION WOULD PERIODICALLY STATE QUITE CLEARLY THAT HE BELIEVED IT HIS DUTY TO CONTINUALLY PAR DOWN THE MENTAL-CUM-VERBAL FAT THAT ALWAYS SURROUNDED EVEN THE MINIMAL DEFINITION OF WHAT IT IS THAT PEOPLE SUCH AS HIM DIDN’T LIKE ABOUT THE OPERATIONS OF THE PART OF HIS BRAIN THAT PRODUCES CONSCIOUSNESS.
HE EXPRESSED HIS FIRM CONVICTION THAT THE SIMPLER, AND MORE ANATOMICALLY, AND PHYSIOLOGICALLY CORRECT IS A MAN’S COMPREHENSION OF HIS INTERNAL SITUATION THE MORE LIKELY BECOMES THE POSSIBILITY OF A CHANGE THEREIN.
THE MAN IN FACT FINALLY NAMED HIS SCHOOL: “THE METHOD FOREMOST OF
REALIZING IN THE SIMPLEST TERMS POSSIBLE WHAT IT IS THAT IS GOING ON
IN YOUR BRAIN THAT YOU DON’T LIKE.”
THERE ARE SOME WHO SAY THAT THE MAN AND HIS APPROACH APPEARED TOD LATE
IN THE HISTORY OF THIS ACTIVITY, BUT I SAY: “NOTHING IS EVER “TOO LATE”
UNLESS YOU GIVE UP.
IN THE LAND OF MENTAL MAKE BELIEVE, UP AROUND EVER BLIND BEND IN THE
ROAD BEFORE YOU THERE EXISTS EVERY POSSIBILITY THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE,
DISCOVER AND INVENT. THE TRICK IS TO SLIM DOWN AND SIMPLIFY EVERYTHING
YOU FIND ON THE JOURNEY TO THE POINT THAT IT CONSTRUCTIVELY DISAPPEARS FROM
YOUR MIND:
THEN YOU PRESS ON TO THE NEXT NEW DISCOVERY…RELISH IT FOR A MOMENT,
THEN PAR IT DOWN INTO NEAR NON-EXISTENCE, AND MOVE ON AGAIN.
BY THE BY: A MORE RECENT RUMOR HAS POPPED UP THAT CLAIMS THIS MAN HAD A SON WHO EXPANDED HIS FATHER’S ATTITUDE TO THE EXTENT THAT HE SAID THAT THE: ENTIRE FEELING OF, “BEING ASLEEP & DELUDED” COMES FROM A MAN’S INABILITY TO ADEQUATELY DESCRIBE TO HIMSELF WHAT IS GOING ON IN HIS HEAD CONCERNING CONSCIOUSNESS.
CONSIDER THAT FOR A SECOND: THAT THE ACTUAL BASIS FOR ALL THE CONFUSION, ANNOYANCE AND STRUGGLES OF PEOPLE LIKE US IS DUE TO OUR INABILITY TO ADEQUATELY DESCRIBE OURSELVES TO OURSELVES, (AS REGARDS, CONSCIOUSNESS).
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FROM THIS VIEW: WE ARE NOT INTERNALLY “IN A WRONG PLACE”,
BUT RATHER SUFFERING FROM THE LACK OF A SATISFACTORY MAP OF THE PLACE.
FOR HOW MANY YEARS ARE MEN WITH OUR INTERESTS DOOMED TO BELIEVE THEY NEED THE ANSWER TO “THE BIG QUESTION” WHEN ALL THAT IS NECESSARY IS A CORRECTED FORMULATION OF THE BIG QUESTION?!
SINCE WORDS ARE OF NO ULTIMATE IMPORTANCE, AND YET INDISPENSABLE TO THIS, THE TRIMMER THEIR USE — THE BETTER.
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NEO-ROUNDUP TIME DOWN IN CLICHE CANYON:
YOU CAN’T APPRECIATE THE PRESENT WITHOUT A KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST.
YOU CAN’T APPRECIATE THE FUTURE WITHOUT A KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRESENT,
AND YOU OBVIOUSLY CAN’T APPRECIATE THE PAST WITHOUT A KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST.
BUT I WANT TO KNOW: WHERE THE HELL DO WE GET OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST
TO BEGIN WITH?!
IT MUST BE THAT WE ARE BORN ALREADY KNOWING SOMETHING…
…WHICH MAY IT FIRST SOUND IMPLAUSIBLE UNTIL YOU TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FACT
THAT EVERYTHING WE “KNOW” IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR CORTICAL CELLS J
AND IT IS ACCEPTED FACT THAT THE CELLS THAT COME TOGETHER TO FORM WHAT
WE ULTIMATELY ARE
APPEAR ALREADY KNOWING ALL THEY NEED TO KNOW TO GET THE JOB DONE…
…SO THE VERBALLY EXPRESSED NOTION THAT WE MAY BE BORN ALREADY KNOWING
SOMETHING, IS NOT ACTUALLY ALL THAT STRANGE,
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LEGEND TELLS THE TALE OF A MAN WHO GAVE POPULAR LECTURES REGARDING THE MATTER OF, “AWAKENING”,
AND THE OLDER HE GOT, THE MORE PLAINLY AND SIMPLY DID HE SPEAK OF THE SUBJECT, AND THE MORE DID SOME OF HIS LISTENERS BELIEVE HE WAS BECOMING SENILE.
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ONE MAN MUSES: “IT SEEMS TO ME THAT AN ENLIGHTENED MAN WOULD ABIDE BUT ONE EMOTION — LAUGHING.”
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THE BELIEF THAT MEN MIGHT ENVIRONMENTALLY “WRECK THE PLANET”
IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW THE THOUGHTS IN MENS’ BRAINS TELL THEM THAT THEY ARE SOMEHOW DISTINCT FROM THE INSEPARABLE, INTERTWINE-MENT OF ALL LIFE ON THIS ORB AND EVERYWHERE ELSE,
THESE THOUGHTS TELL MAN THAT HE IS “UNIQUE” AMONG ALL CREATURES HERE IN HIS RELATIONSHIP TO LIFE,
WHICH I SUGGEST TO YOU, IS A MAGNIFIED REFLECTION OF THE THOUGHTS INSIDE OF MAN’S CORTICAL CELLS WHICH MUST ASSURE THEM ALSO OF THEIR SINGULAR STATUS AMONG ALL HIS OTHER CELLS,
IT’S OKAY TO FEEL, “SINGLED OUT”,
BUT IF YOU WANT TO WAKE UP TO WHAT’S ACTUALLY GOING ON YOU’VE GOT TO REALIZE THE BASIS OF THE FEELING.
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A SAD, (OR: EXHILARATING):FACT-FOR-THE-FEW, (IT’S UP TO YOU):
YOU CANNOT SPEAK FOR MORE THAN ABOUT 140 SECONDS WITHOUT BECOMING SERIOUS,
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A NEW, SIMPLIFIED VIEW OF WHAT, “WANTING TO WAKE UP” & BE ENLIGHTENED” ARE ACTUALLY ABOUT: IT IS WANTING TO HAVE TWO BRAINS, (OR, ANOTHER WAY): IT IS WANTING THAT PART OF YOUR BRAIN THAT PRODUCES CONSCIOUSNESS
TO PRODUCE TWO VERSIONS OF IT
WITH ONE OF THEM BEING UNDER YOUR CONTROL.
…CEPT NO ONE EVER TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE QUESTION OF WHERE DID THIS “YO” COME FROM THAT’S SUDDENLY BEEN ADDED TO THE MIX?!
…SEEMS TO ME THAT YOU’VE ALREADY GOT TWO SORTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS GOING INASMUCH AS YOU CAN SPEAK OF A “YOU”, AND OF “CONSCIOUSNESS” AS TWO
SEPARATE MATTERS,,,, SO:
WHY THE NEED TO LOOK FOR AN ADDITION TO YOUR BRAIN’S PRESENT OPERATION?!
MAYBE THAT’S THE WHOLE TROUBLE WITH FOLKS LIKE US:
IT’S THAT WE ALWAYS WANT: MORE, MORE, MORE,
THAT A MYSTIC, AT HIS CORE
IS SIMPLY SOMEONE INCAPABLE OF EVER BEING MENTALLY SATISFIED ?!
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A SCIENTIST DOES HIS THINKING WHILE CALCULATING:
AN ARTIST DOES HIS THINKING AS HE PLANS:
A FARMER DOES HIS THINKING AS HE WORKS:
A FOOL DOES HIS THINKING AS HE SPEAKS, AND A MYSTIC DOES HIS,
“AFTER THE FACT”
…(COURSE THAT’S SO WITH ALL OF ‘FM,
BUT ONLY THE MYSTIC’S AWARE OF IT.)
ONE MAN PRIVATELY MUSED: “IT TOOK ME FORTY-FIVE YEARS TO REALIZE THAT WHAT I’D BEEN TRYING TO DO
COULDN’T BE DONE,
BUT BY THEN I’D MADE TOO MucH PROGRESS TO GIVE IT UP.”
IT WAS SAID BY HIS NEIGHBORS THAT EXCEPT FOR WHEN HE WENT OUT TO
SPECIFICALLY ENGAGE IN ROBBERY
THAT JESSE JAMES WAS TOTALLY HONEST IN HIS EVERYDAY DEALINGS WITH PEOPLE,
A COMMENT I FIND APROPOS CONCERNING THE ACCEPTABLE CONDITION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
AS LONG AS IT IS ENGAGED IN SOME HONEST & MEANINGFUL ACTIVITY.
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LET ME AGAIN ATTEMPT TO CONVEY WHAT I MEAN BY “BEING SERIOUS ABOUT LIFE”: IT IS WHEN YOU HEED THE THOUGHTS PASSING THRU YOU REGARDING LIFE, AND CONSIDER THEM WORTHY OF NOTE:
IT COMES ABOUT ALSO FROM TREATING THE THOUGHTS EXPRESSED BY OTHERS REGARDING LIFE AS DESERVING OF YOUR ATTENTION, AND PERHAPS, RESPONSE.
“BEING SERIOUS ABOUT LIFE” IN THE COSTLY MANNER I MEAN OCCURS FROM PASSIVELY ALLOWING THE THOUGHTS MAGICALLY APPEARING IN YOU
TO TELL YOU – WHAT,
“BEING ALIVE” IS ALL ABOUT.
ONE GUY’S SECRET SLOGAN IS: “IF IT AIN’T LAUGHABLE — IT AIN’T TRUE.”
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SOMEONE ONCE DESCRIBED THE IDEA MARRIAGE AS BEING COMPOSED OF:
A DEAF HUSBAND AND A BLIND WIFE,
AND IN REACTION THERETO, A CHAP ONCE MUSED:
“AH, BUT IF ONLY SUCH WERE THE RELATIONSHIP TWIX MY THOUGHTS AND ME.”
STARTED TO LET THE GUY SLID ON THIS ONE, BUT I JUST CAN’T KEEP
FROM ASKING: “HOW DID THE CONCEPT OF A “ME” 1
AS SOMETHING SEPARATE FROM HIS THOUGHTS
SLIP INTO HIS COMMENT REGARDING — HIS THOUGHTS HIS,
SO ON WHAT BASIS DOES HE SPEAK ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WHAT HE SAYS IS: “ME AND MY THOUGHTS”?!
…YEAH, I KNOW, MAYBE I AM RUNNING THIS IN THE GROUND,
(OR ELSE ALREADY INTO, THRU AND OUT THE OTHER SIDE OF YOUR HEAD….BUT…
…OKAY, LET’S MOVE ON TO SOMETHING DIFFERENT:
THERE’S THIS GUY WHO SAYS: “I FIND ALL FICTION, TEDIOUS,
AND ALL NON FICTION, EXTREMELY TEDIOUS.”,
WELL HEY, DON’T BLAME ME, I TRIED TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT DIDN’T I?!
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TRYING TO CONTROL THOUGHT-DEFINED-CONSCIOUSNESS
IS LIKE GRASPING AT THE WIND: TRYING TO HOLD A PUFF OF SMOKE: IT SEEMS TO BE THERE UNTIL YOU SUDDENLY DECIDE TO
REACH OUT — GRAB IT, AND HOLD IT STILL WHILE YOU EXAMINE IT,
THEN — “POOF”! WHERE’D IT GO?!
AND THERE YOU STAND, EMPTY HANDED, ALONE, FEELING LIKE A FOOL,
(AT LEAST YOU SHOULD SO FEEL IF YOU COMPREHEND ANYTHING AT ALL BY NOW.)
ONLY MYSTICS, SCIENTISTS AND FOOLS TRY TO SERIOUSLY STUDY THE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS: MYSTICS NEVER FIGURE OUT WHERE THEY WENT WRONG: SCIENTISTS DON’T TAKE THEIR STUDY PERSONALLY, AND FOOLS ACTUALLY BELIEVE THEY MAKE PROGRESS —
…SO WHERE DO THOSE WHO SUCCEED IN THEIR STUDY FIT INTO THIS; WELL,
PERHAPS THEY ARE SOME COMBINATION OF A MYSTIC, A SCIENTIST AND A FOOL -HOW DOES THAT SOUND TO YOU?
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ONE MAN SAYS:
“FACTS MAKE ME LAUGH AS LONG AS THEY ARE NOT ABOUT ME,
FACTS MAKE ME LAUGH ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE ABOUT ME,
FACTS MAKE ME LAUGH….AS LONG AS THEY AREN’T TRUE,
FACTS MAKE ME LAUGH….UNLESS THEY’RE PROVEN TO BE CORRECT, (AND): FACTS MAKE NE LAUGH, BUT SO DOES EVERYTHING ELSE.”
..AND AFTER EVERYONE HAD CALMED DOWN AND QUIT LAUGHING, HE ADDED:
“FACTS ARE — WHAT YOU MAKE ‘EM….AND THAT’S WHAT’S REALLY LAUGHABLE.”
AND AS LONG AS WE’RE IN THIS AREA:
I SEE THERE BEING, “HARD FACTS” WHICH ARE FACTS ABOUT “DOING”,
AND, “SOFT FACTS” WHICH ARE IN ACTUAL FACT,
THE SYMBOLIC-MANIPULATION OF “SOFT FACTS” —
..,NO, I DIDN’T MISSPEAK AND YOU DIDN’Y MIS-HEAR:
THE SERIOUS CONSIDERATION OF “SOFT FACTS” IS LIKE ADDING EVEN
MORE AIR TO COTTON CANDY,
OR IMAGINING THAT THE GHOSTS YOU SEE ARE BECOMING BETTER DRESSED.
BUT, LET’S MOVE ON TO MORE SUBSTANTIAL MATTERS.
THEOREM: THERE IS NOTHING GREATER IN THE LIFE OF MAN THAN
HIS ABILITY TO THINK — ALTHOUGH,
A FEW
SEEM TO BELIEVE IT TO BE THE DREAMED-OF ABILITY NOT TO
..WELL DAMMIT, DON’T KEEP LOOKING AROUND AT ME,
I TRIED TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT…I TRULY DID. (HAH HAH HAH.)
A KNOWLEDGEABLE MAN’S MOTTO MIGHT BE THUS: “THINKING THAT HAS A KNOWN GOAL IS ONE THING, BUT LACKING THIS, THINKING DROPS TO A LEVEL OF SOMETHING ELSE ALTOGETHER. …AND ALTOGETHER INTOLERABLE, TO A FEW.”
IN PLACE OF THE TERM, “BEING ASLEEP”, ONE MAN CALLS IT, “BEING SUCKED IN.” LIKE HE SAYS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO HIM WHEN HE READS, WATCHES TV, OR OTHERWISE ALLOWS, EVEN MOMENTARILY, HIS ATTENTION TO REST ON THE THOUGHTS OF OTHERS.
HE ALSO NOTES HOW HE IS “SUCKED IN” BY THE EVER PRESENT COMMENTARY RUNNING THRU HIS OWN BRAIN IN REACTION TO THE IDEAS AND WORDS OF OTHERS.
HE POSES US THIS: “ARE WE BORN, ALREADY PRIMED TO BE – ‘SUCKED IN’,
OR DO WE SOMEHOW ALLOW OURSELVES TO PICK UP THE HABIT AS WE GO ALONG?”
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(OH, AND ANOTHER GUY, IN A RELATED MANNER, SAYS HE THINKS OF THIS INNER CONDITION AS: “THE ‘TALK’ MUGS MY AWARENESS, AND RUNS OFF WITH MY CONSCIOUSNESS.”
…OH, AND I NEARLY FORGOT ABOUT THIS OTHER CHAP WHO SAYS:
“I SEE CONSCIOUSNESS AND THINKING AS BEING LIKE TWINS,
AND WHAT I DON’T LIKE, (AT LEAST, AFTER THE FACT WHEN I AGAIN CATCH
IT GOING ON), IS THEM BECOMING SIAMESE TWINS:
BECOMING SO MERGED THAT CONSCIOUSNESS DISAPPEARS INTO THE THINKING.”
THIS THING SOME CALL, “BEING ASLEEP” IS IN HOLDING UP YOUR END OF THE INTERNAL CONVERSATION.
…WHAT A LAUGHABLE THING TO BE CAUGHT DOING!
(AND ONE MAN SAYS HE PICTURES, “DRIFTING OFF TO SLEEP” AS HIS CONSCIOUSNESS BEING “SUCKER PUNCHED” BY THINKING.)
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BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE THE WAY YOU CAN TELL THAT NO WISDOM IS BEING IMPARTED, ONE TO ANOTHER IS IF ONE OF THEM IS ATTEMPTING TO IMPART SOME TO THE OTHER.
…AS A CERTAIN DAD SO SAID TO HIS SON: “IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HELP SOMEONE —
— DON’T TELL ‘EM ANYTHING.”, AND THE PUZZLED LAD RESPONDED:
“BUT WHAT GOOD WILL THAT DO?”, AND THE ELDER REPLIED:
“HEY BOY, HOW THE HELL DID, ‘GOOD’ GET IN THIS CONVERSATION?!
…LOOK LAD, IF YOU AIN’T A’HURTIN’ SOMEBODY — IN THEIR THINKIN’ —
THEN THAT’S THE BEST YOU OR ANYONE CAN DO FOR ‘EM.
LET ME GIVE YOU A HOME GROWN THEOREM: ‘A MAN NOT TRYIN’ TO — “WISE YOU UP”
IS ABOUT AS GOOD A FRIEND AS YOU COULD HAVE’.” –
…AND WITHIN A SECOND OR SO, THE BOY SUDDENLY REALIZED THAT ALL OF THIS
ALSO REFERRED TO WHAT GOES ON IN YOUR OWN BRAIN ‘TWEEN THINKING & CONSCIOUSNESS,
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ONE MAN SAYS:”IT SEEMS TO ME THAT AN ENLIGHTENED MAN WOULD LIVE IN BUT ONE TIME FRAME — LAUGHING TIME.”
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THE BELIEF THAT THERE ARE “SACRED WRITINGS”AND WORDS IS THE EPITOME OF THINKING’S BLATANT, SELF-PROMOTION.
…(I GUESS THAT IN NON-MATERIAL WORLDS SAME AS IN THE PHYSICAL, IT’S STILL A MATTER OF: “PROTECT YOUR POSITION AT ALL COSTS…. …REGARDLESS OF HOW LUDICROUS THE MANNER.
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ONE MAN SAYS: “THINKING MAKES ME LAUGH — WAIT, LET ME CLARIFY THAT: I LAUGH WHEN I SUDDENLY REALIZE THAT MY CONSCIOUSNESS HAD JUST BEEN CONSISTING OF NOTHING BUT THE THINKING FOREVER READY TO PASS THRU ME.
THERE IS SIMPLY NOTHING MORE LAUGHABLE THAN MY CONCEPT OF, ‘I’ WHEN THERE IS NOT ONE THERE —
WHEN IT IS MISSING — HAVING BEEN WHISKED FROM EXISTENCE BY THINKING.
YEAH, THAT’S WHAT ACTUALLY MAKES ME LAUGH AS REGARDS — THINKING.”
AND NOW ON TO SOME: SCIENCE NEWS:
A CERTAIN BACTERIA HAS BEEN DISCOVERED WHOSE INTESTINES ARE FULL OF HUMANS —
…AND IF YOU THINK THAT’S BAD:
A GROUP OF CORTICAL CELLS HAS BEEN FOUND WHOSE ACTIVITY IS
CONTINUALLY INTERRUPTED BY THE NOISE OF HUMANS.
..AND MOANED ONE POOR SOUL: “IS THERETO NEVER BE ANY, ‘GETTING AWAY FROM ME’?!” AND THE ANSWER IS; “THERE CAN BE — BUT FIRST YOU MUST REALIZE THAT
THERE NEVER WAS ANY “JOINING UP” BETWEEN “YOU” AND “YOURSELF” IN THE FIRST PLACE.
JUST REMEMBER THIS: “INTO EACH LARGE, SOME SMALL MUST FALL, …AND SOME TIMES, VICEY VERSEY.
AND ONE MAN SAYS: “IT SEEMS TO ME THAN AN ENLIGHTENED MAN WOULD HAVE BUT ONE VIEW OF HUMAN AFFAIRS — A LAUGHING VIEW.”
THERE WAS ONCE A MAN KNOWN FOR HIS EXTENSIVE COMMENTS REGARDING,
“BEING ASLEEP AND WAKING UP”, AND WHO HAD HIS IDEAS REFERRED TO AS THE, “AVAUNT GARDE” ON THE SUBJECT BUT WHO SAID TO HIMSELF:
“YES, MY THINKING IN THE MATTER COULD VERY WELL BE,”ON-THE-CUTTING EDGE; BUT THE CUTTING EDGE TO NO WHERE.
COMPREHEND
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AND ONE MAN SAYS: “IT SEEMS TO ME THAT AN ENLIGHTENED MAN WOULD HAVE BUT ONE REACTION TO THE DISAPPOINTMENTS OF LIFE — LAUGHTER.”
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THE BIG-OLE, BIG-TIME, ELUSIVE, AND SLIPPERY PROBLEM VERBALIZED YET AGAIN:
ORDINARY CONSCIOUSNESS AND, WANTING TO WAKE UP” ARE TWO SEPARATE THINGS: ORDINARY CONSCIOUSNESS AND, WANTING TO WAKE UP ARE THE SAME THING, SO YOU CAN SEE WHY THE PROBLEM’S SO GOSH DARN SLIPPERY, HUH?!
AND A CHAP WRITES FOR ADVICE: “THE MORE THAT I THINK ABOUT THE MATTER OF THINKING, THE MORE DO I BECOME SUBMERGED IN THOUGHT. HAVE YOU A SUGGESTION?”, SIGNED:”THOUGHTFUL, AND THOROUGHLY-PISSED-ABOUT-IT.”
OKAY,”THOUGHTFUL”, HERE IT IS: LIGHTEN UP!,
BUT A BIT OF ADVICE NO SERIOUSLY THOUGHTFUL PERSON IS LIKELY TO HEED.
…WONDER WHY THAT IS?!? — DON’T YOU?! … OH, STOP LOOKING SO SERIOUS ABOUT IT!.
THE TWO THINGS THAT WILL MAKE MEN LAUGH: PEOPLE BEING TRIPPED UP, AND, WORDS BEING TRIPPED UP.
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MORE OF: HOW THINGS ARE:
WHEN NOT SPECIFICALLY ENGAGED: CONSCIOUSNESS BECOMES A COMMENTATOR ON YOUR LIFE. HOW THINGS ARE: MYSTICS SIMPLY CAN’T STAND THIS.
HEY, AND PONDER ME THIS: COULD IT BE THAT PEOPLE LIKE US ARE MERELY MEN WHO ARE (SHALL WE SAY UNUSUALLY IMPRESSED” BY THE ABILITY TO THINK.?! FACT, DAMN NEAR OVERCOME BY IT.
…AND THAT WITH SUCH PEOPLE, FROM THERETO, “WANTING TO WAKE UP” IS BUT A SMALL STEP.
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AND IN RESPONSE TO MANY REQUESTS RECEIVED IN THE LAST FEW MINUTES, WE CONCLUDE WITH A REVISIT,ONE MORE TIME TO THAT, BIG OLE TROUBLING AND EVASIVE PROBLEM:
ORDINARY CONSCIOUSNESS & “WANTING TO BE ENLIGHTENED”
ARE OBVIOUSLY TWO DIFFERENT THINGS — BUT:
ORDINARY CONSCIOUSNESS & “WANTING TO BE ENLIGHTENED” ARE IN FACT,
THE SAME TWO THINGS —
— HOW CAN THEY NOT BE?!
WHAT ELSE IS THERE BESIDES THE TWO?!
AND FINALLY: ONE MAN SAYS: “AT ONE TIME, I KNEW SOMETHING: NOW I LAUGH AT THE IDEA OF: ‘KNOWING SOMETHING.’
AN ENLIGHTENED MAN WOULD BE EMBARRASSED TO CATCH HIMSELF
LAUGHING AT SOMETHING — THOSE WHO KNOW
LAUGH ONLY AT NOTHING.