A Real ‘Waker-Upper’ Would Be a Man Who Never Allows His Mind to Be Content with Anything.
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A MAN VISITED A MYSTIC TO GET A PROPER DIAGNOSIS OF THE COMPLAINTS HE HAD
REGARDING HIS STATE OF MIND, AND AFTER THOROUGHLY DESCRIBING THE SYMPTOMS
AS HE PERCEIVED THEM TO BE HE GRABBED THE MYSTIC BY HIS SHOULDERS AND SAID:
“OKAY, GIVE IT TO ME SIMPLE AND DIRECT — I CAN TAKE IT.”,
AND THE MYSTIC REPLIED: “You ARE CONCERNED WITH THE ONE AREA OF HUMAN LIFE
IN WHICH THE CONCEPTS OF, ‘SIMPLE AND DIRECT’ TOTALLY BREAK DOWN.
TRYING TO MAKE THOUGHT TURN AND LOOK AT ITSELF IS A MATTER THAT DEFIES
ALL NOTIONS OF SOMETHING SIMPLE OR ANY VERBAL EXPOSITIONS THAT ARE DIRECT.
MY PRESCRIPTION FOR YOU IN THIS MATTER IS TO FORGET ABOUT ANY VERBALIZED
APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE AFFAIR, AND LEARN TO INTERNALLY ‘DO’ SOMETHING
THAT IS BEYOND ALL PRECEPTS OF EITHER SIMPLE-AND-DIRECT, OR NOT.
I WILL FURTHER NOTE THIS CONCERNING YOUR PROBLEM: IT IS THE FRUSTRATION
THAT THE DREAMS OF YOUR MIND FEEL REGARDING THEIR IMPOTENCE TO CHANGE YOUR
STATE OF MIND THAT CAUSES THE SENSATION OF YOU HAVING A PROBLEM.
Now THAT IS AS SIMPLE AND DIRECT AS YOUR PROBLEM CAN BE DESCRIBED AND DIAGNOSED.
THUS THERE’S NOT REALLY ANY ‘CURE’ FOR YOUR SITUATION;
WHAT YOU NEED IS A CHANGE IN YOUR PERCEPTION OF WHAT THE SITUATION IN THE MIND IS.
YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT TAKES PLACE IN YOUR BRAIN GIVING RISE TO
YOUR MIND IS THE SOLUTION — NAY, EVAPORATION OF YOUR PROBLEM.”
THEN AS THE MAN STOOD TO LEAVE, THE MYSTIC OFFERED THESE PARTING WORDS:
“HE WHO THINKS HIMSELF ILL, IS ILL,
AND FOR THE FEW LIKE YOU THIS STATEMENT REFERS NOT TO A MATTER OF HYPOCHONDRIA,
BUT RATHER IS SAYING THAT EVEN A MAN AWAKE WILL GO FOR A SNOOZE
IF HE ASKS HIMSELF; ‘AM I AWAKE?’;
A MAN IS ONLY BEYOND THE LONG AND PERSISTENT ARMS OF MORPHEUS
WHEN HE IS BEYOND THE REACH OF ANY DIAGNOSIS.
REMEMBER THIS IF NOTHING ELSE FROM YOUR VISIT TO ME:
‘A MAN WITH NOTHING TO SAY IS A MAN WORTH LISTENING TO.’ — AND ABOVE ALL,
REMEMBER THAT WHENEVER YOUR ATTENTION IS TEMPTED BY YOUR OWN DREAMY COMMENTS
REGARDING YOU AND YOUR ‘PROBLEM’.
ONLY THE ENLIGHTENED CAN CORRECTLY JUDGE THEMSELF;
AND ONLY THOSE IN THE DARK ATTEMPT TO DO SO.”
AND WITH THAT, THE METAPHYSICAL PHYSICIAN HANDED THE MAN A LOLLIPOP,
PATTED HIM ON THE HEAD, AND GENTLY PUSHED HIM TOWARD THE DOOR.
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THE WAY TO ASSURE THAT YOUR MYSTICAL INTEREST IN AWAKENING STAYS
SUITABLY “MYSTICAL” AND MYSTERIOUS
IS TO ALWAYS STAY ENGAGED WITH SOME MYSTICAL SYSTEM, AND NOT DIRECTLY
WITH THE ACTUAL MATTER OF AWAKENING.
MOST WOULD-BE “AWAKENERS” GET ALL THE REWARD THEY NEED FROM A
NEVER-ENDING READING-OF, AND DISCUSSION-ABOUT THE TRAIN SCHEDULES TO
EXOTIC LOCALES WHILE AVOIDING THE ACTUAL BOARDING OF A TRAIN.
ONCE YOU HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE MIND,
THIS MATTER IS NOT AT ALL CURIOUS, IN THAT THE THOUGHTS THAT NATURALLY OCCUR
GIVE MOST MENS’ MINDS ALL OF THE PLEASURE_THEY REQUIRE, OR INDEED PERHAPS,
ALL THAT THEY CAN TOLERATE.
AND FROM THAT VIEW, A REAL, “WAKER-UPPER” WOULD BE A MAN WHO NEVER
ALLOWS HIS MIND TO BE CONTENT WITH ANYTHING.
ONE MAN HAD A SAYING: “CONCERN WITH THE TRUTH IS A SURE WAY TO MADNESS.”, AND WHEN SOMEONE SAID TO HIM: “THAT’S INSANE!”, HE REPLIED: “SEE, I TOLD YOU IT’D DO IT.”
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AND ANOTHER BIT OF MEDICAL ADVICE: Do NOT TAKE, (FOR INSTANCE),
RUMBLINGS IN YOUR STOMACH T.O’BE PSYCHIC .VOICES FROM YOUR GI TRACT, AND DO NOT LET THE FRUSTRATION YOUR DREAMS FEEL FOR THEIR IMPOTENCE IN DIRECTING YOUR LIFE DICTATE THE TERMS BY WHICH YOU PERCEIVE REALITY VIA THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF YOUR BRAIN.
A MAN AWAKENED TO THE PLAIN NATURE OF LIFE HAS NO DIFFICULTY IN
RECOGNIZING THE DIFFERENCE OF A HACKNEYED TUNE RUNNING THRU HIS HEAD,
AND A BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY BEING PLAYED LIVE, BEFORE HIM.
AFTER A CERTAIN STAGE OF THIS GAME, GOOD FOOD, PROPER NOURISHMENT
HAS A GREATER EFFECT ON ENLIGHTENMENT THAT DO ALL THE WORDS OF ALL THE MYSTICS.
“GIVE ME ROCKY ROAD, OR GIVE ME THE DIAMOND SUTRA….PREFERABLY THE ROCKY ROAD.”
HE WHO THINKS HIMSELF ILL, IS ILL, AND HE WHO THINKS OF HIMSELF NOT,
IS FREED FROM THE ILLUSIONS OF THIS “SLEEPING SICKNESS”.
TAKE TWO LOLLIPOPS AND CALL NO ONE IN THE MORNING.
A MAN CAN LIVE OUT HIS DAYS BELIEVING THAT HIS DREAMS ARE AS IMPORTANT AS HIS BILE PRODUCTION, OR HIS ABILITY TO KEEP HIS BALANCE, BUT SUCH A MAN WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIVING IN AN INTERNAL WORLD OF SHADOWS,
AND CONFUSION, AND IN A REALM OF CLEAR, BRIGHT LIGHT. TAKE 2 NOTHINGS AND CALL ME
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WHAT A GREAT SHIFT AND RELIEF IT IS TO LOOK OUT IN LIFE AND NOT SEE MEN WITH INDIVIDUAL “I’S” AND MINDS, BUT RATHER PEOPLE POSSESSED-BY
NEURONAL ACTIVITY IN CERTAIN AREAS OF THEIR BRAIN WHICH NORMALLY PASSES FOR SUCH.
“YES.”, SAYS ONE MAN, “I USED TO BE — ‘SOME ONE’, BUT THEN I AWOKE TO REALITY,
AND NOW I AM NOTHING….SAME AS I WAS BEFORE…’CEPT NOW I’M AWARE OF IT
….AND MIGHT I ADD: A DAMN-SIGHT HAPPIER FOR IT.”
AND HERE IS A “NO-BRAINER” MORAL FOR YOU:
“A BAG FULL OF IMAGINARY STUFF IS BOUND TO TAKE A BEATING.” —
— ALTHOUGH OF COURSE, THE BEATING ITSELF WILL BE ILLUSIONARY, BUT NONETHELESS, I ASSUME YOU SEE THE POINT.
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A SURE SIGN THAT A MAN IS FAST ASLEEP AND LIVING IN A DREAM IS IF HE OBVIOUSLY FINDS HIMSELF TO BE OUT OF THE ORDINARY AND FASCINATING,
AND THE SURE WAY TO DETERMINING THAT THOSE AROUND HIM ARE ALSO ASLEEP
IS IF THEY FIND HIM SO TOO.
QUESTION: Do YOU FIND YOURSELF — FASCINATING?”
As A MATTER OF FACT, ONE DAY SOMEONE SAID TO A CERTAIN MYSTIC:
“Do YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY MAKES YOU SO FASCINATING?”, AND HE REPLIED, No,
“THE FACT THAT YOU DON’T APPEAR TO THINK THAT YOU ARE,”,
AND TO HIMSELF THE SAGE SAID:
“IF YOU KNEW ME — AND YOURSELF — AS WELL AS I DO,
YOU WOULDN’T THINK SO EITHER.”
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ONE MAN OBSERVES: “SOMETHING CONCERNING ME AND MY MIND THAT I HAVE RECENTLY
COME TO REALIZE IS THAT:
MY MIND HAS – A MIND OF ITS OWN! — BUT EVEN MORE INTERESTING THAN THAT IS:
MY MIND HAS A ME OF ITS OWN — A ‘ME’ — ME,
AND WHAT’S REALLY FUNNY IS THAT ALL OF MY LIFE I’VE SEEN THE MATTER IN REVERSE;
I’VE ALWAYS SAID THAT: ‘I HAD A MIND.’ WHEN THE SITUATION WAS JUST THE OPPOSITE:
MY MIND HAS A ME.
…IT’S SURE CURIOUS HOW SOME THINGS TURN OUT IN LIFE, WOULDN’T YOU AGREE?!”
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ANOTHER MAN OFFERS THIS PERSONAL DISCOVERY HE HAS MADE:
“WRITING ABOUT ‘WAKING-UP’, PUTS ME TO SLEEP;
TALKING ABOUT ‘WAKING-UP’, PUTS ME.TO SLEEP:
THINKING ABOUT ‘WAKING-UP’, PUTS ME TO SLEEP — SO —
DOES THIS IMPLY THAT ANYTHING I MIGHT DO THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH, ‘WAKING UP’
MIGHT NOT BE A ‘SLEEP-PRODUCER’?
;.:IT ALMOST MAKES SENSE….AND YET….SOMETHING DOESN’T SEEM JUST RIGHT, FOR HOW COULD IT BE THAT ANYTHING NOT HAVING TO DO WITH ENLIGHTENMENT MIGHT AT LEAST KEEP YOU FROM THE DARK?!
…YEAH…IT ALMOST SOUNDS RIGHT…YET STILL…A SUSPICIOUS AROMA LINGERS.” I GOTTA MAKE NOTE HERE THAT THIS GUY COULD BE OVER-DOSING ON VERBAL COCAINE. THE JUICE OF NEUROTRANSMITTERS IS ONE THING,
BUT TAKING THEM TO BE PSYCHIC WARNINGS FROM MYSTICAL OTHERWORLDS
IS JUST ANOTHER CASE OF DREAMING-ON-YOUR-FEET.
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SOME GOOD ADVICE FOR THOSE WANTING THE MOST FROM THIS ADVENTURE: “JUDGE NOT THE BOOK ‘TIL THE LAST PAGE IS READ.”
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A CERTAIN KING SAID: “ALL OF THE PROBLEMS THAT BESET OUR LAND
ARE A RESULT OF ME TRANSFERRING SOME OF THE TROUBLES IN MY PRIME MINISTER’S HEAD INTO MY OWN.”
AND ON HIS TOMBSTONE ONE MAN HAD INSCRIBED: “SO YOU COULD DO BETTER?!”
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A MAN ASKED HIMSELF: “How CAN A MUSICIAN ACTUALLY, ‘IMPROVISE?’,
TRULY ‘MAKE-UP’ WHAT HE PLAYS EVEN AS HE’S PLAYING IT?! — HOW CAN THIS BE, FOR AT SOME POINT HE HAS TO ‘DECIDE’ WHAT NOTE HE WILL PLAY NEXT IN HIS ‘IMPROVISATION’.”, AND I ASSUME YOU CAN SEE HOW THIS RELATES TO THE
ROUTINE WORKINGS OF THE MIND WITHOUT ANY COMMENT FROM ME.
AND AS HE SAT WATCHING A MEDICAL SCIENCE SHOW ON TV, ONE MAN WHO FOR YEARS HAD BEEN STRUGGLING TO AWAKEN, SAID ALOUD: “BOY, NOW THERE’S ALL I NEED -A BRAIN TUMOR!”
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AND NOW SOME OF OUR OWN, IN-HOUSE, “SCIENCE NEWS”: DIFFERENT STRINGS OF DIFFERENT GENES MAKE DIFFERENT MEN DO DIFFERENT THINGS.
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To WHATEVER DEGREE YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU SHOULD SEE A “PURPOSE” TO YOUR LIFE, TO THAT SAME DEGREE YOU WILL ALWAYS FEEL TRACKED BY DISAPPOINTMENT, AND THREATENED BY UNHAPPINESS.
THOSE FAST ASLEEP, WITH NO INTEREST IN THIS SORT OF THING CAN BE
RELATIVELY SATISFIED WITH ORDINARY LIFE AS THEY FIND IT;
SHOULD NOT WOULD-BE, “WAKER UPPERS” AT LEAST BE ABLE TO ENJOY LIFE AS MUCH AS YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD DUNDERHEAD?!
…AND BY THE WAY: WOULD EVERYONE RAISE THEIR HAND WHO DO NOT REALIZE THAT
THEY ARE THE NEIGHBORHOOD DUNDERHEAD
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THOSE LIVING MERELY A SUBSISTENCE EXISTENCE HAVE NO TIME OR INTEREST IN
IDEAS OF REFORMING THEIR MENTAL OPERATIONS IN THAT THEIR BRAINS ARE FULLY INVOLVED
IN THE MATTER OF SIMPLY STAYING ALIVE;
MEN ONLY DISCOVER THE NOTION OF “WAKING UP” THEIR CONSCIOUSNESS WHEN
CONDITIONS BECOME SUCH THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER LIVING FRANTICALLY FROM
DAY-TO-DAY AND HAVE FREE TIME FINALLY ON THEIR HANDS, (ON THEIR MINDS, ACTUALLY).
THUS THOSE WHO LONG FOR A RADICAL CHANGE IN THE CONSCIOUS OPERATIONS OF THEIR BRAIN, AS THEY EXPERIENCE IT,
CAN BE VIEWED AS: HARBINGERS OF MAN’S MENTAL FUTURE,
BUT ALSO AS MEN. UNCOMMONLY ANNOYED BY LINGERING TRACES OF 1
VESTIGIAL MENTAL ACTIVITIES THAT STILL “GO BUMP” IN THEIR NEURAL NIGHT.
THE DESIRE FOR ENLIGHTENMENT THEN CAN BE SEEN EITHER AS A:
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE, OR ELSE AS ONE’S SIGHT BEING ENTANGLED IN THE PAST, (AND OF COURSE, THEY ARE BOTH THE SAME.)
A RELATED VIEW ON THE MATTER OF BEING ASLEEP AND DISORIENTED IS IN YOUR THOUGHTS BEING FRUSTRATED OVER THEIR INABILITY TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE AND
MAKE CHANGES WHERE THEY DEEM APPROPRIATE, BUT IN NOT SEEING THIS SITUATION AS
RESULTING FROM YOUR PRESENT STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BRAIN
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BUT RATHER AS CAUSED BY VESTIGIAL NEURAL OPERATIONS BELOW THE CONSCIOUS LEVEL WHICH AT ONE TIME WERE VITAL FOR SURVIVAL BUT NOW HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO THE LEVEL OF GRUMPY, IMPOTENT OLD MEN
SITTING AROUND, FOREVER REMINISCING ABOUT GLORIOUS PAST TIMES,
AND ENDLESSLY COMPLAINING ABOUT THE CHANGES THAT HAVE
RENDERED THEM SUPERFLUOUS.
WHAT IF IT IS NOT THE NEURONAL ACTIVITY OF THE CORTEX THAT DRIVES US TO WANT TO CHANGE CONSCIOUSNESS,
BUT RATHER IS STIMULI COMING FROM SUB CORTICAL AREAS?!
..WHAT IF, IN FACT, HORMONES. HAVE MORE TO DO WITH SOME PEOPLE WANTING TO ALTER THE • CONSCIOUSNESS OF THEIR THINKING THAN DOES THE ACTUAL NEURONAL ACTIVITY AT THE CONSCIOUS LEVEL?!
…WHAT IF INDEED, “WANTING TO AWAKEN” IS NOT AN EXAMPLE OF MAN’S, “INTELLECTUAL FUTURE”,
BUT IS RATHER,LEFT-OVER JUNK FROM HIS HORMONAL PAST?!
TAKE TWO FAUX CHIPPENDALES AND PHONE IN A BOMB THREAT TO CHRISTIE’S IN THE MORNING
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ALL MENTAL REASONING IS ULTIMATELY AN EXERCISE IN SOPHISTRY — BUT, WHEN PURSUED TO ITS INEVITABLE END
THE RESULTS CAN BE LITERALLY — EYE POPPING.
A MAN WHO DOES NOT AGGRESSIVELY WORK .TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF HIS MIND. AS HE ATTEMPTS TO GAIN ENLIGHTENMENT
IS LIKE SOMEONE WHO GOES TO A BANQUET FOR THE PURPOSE OF FASTING.
AND ONE MAN SAYS: “ONE OF THE POTENTIAL PROBLEMS IN BEING THE KIND OF PERSON WHO WANTS TO AWAKEN IS THAT YOU TEND TO TAKE NOT BEING AWAKE, TOO SERIOUSLY; YOU ALSO TEND TO TAKE NOT HAVING THE ANSWERS TO EVERYTHING, TOO SERIOUSLY; YOU TAKE NOT BEING IN FULL CONTROL OF YOURSELF, TOO SERIOUSLY;
YOU TAKE NOT BEING PERFECTLY PLEASED WITH YOURSELF, TOO SERIOUSLY;
YOU TAKE THE MENTALLY-BASED, SECONDARY LIFE OF MAN FAR MORE SERIOUSLY THAN IT DESERVES EVEN FROM THE MOST LIBERAL OF VIEWS,
ALL IN ALL; THOSE WHO LONG FOR ENLIGHTENMENT TEND TO TAKE EVERYTHING ABOUT BEING ALIVE MORE SERIOUSLY THAN IS USEFUL.
LEAVE SUCH MATTERS TO THOSE SATISFIED WITH LIVING IN THE DARK.
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THE BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING AWAKE AND STILL STRUGGLING TO BE
IS THAT WHILE YOU’RE STILL WORKING AT IT YOU CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR ANSWERS
TO WHATEVER PARTICULAR MATTERS INTEREST AND PUZZLE YOU
WHILE ONCE YOU’RE AWAKE YOU SIMPLY REALIZE THAT ALL MATTERS COULD NOT BE
OTHER THAN THEY ARE
AT THE INSTANT YOU LOOK AT THEM/ AND THUS NO QUESTIONS EVER ARISE ABOUT THEM
IN YOUR MIND.
SO/ EVEN THOUGH IT’S OFTEN SAID THAT AN AWAKENED MAN “KNOWS EVERYTHING”,
IT COULD AS WELL BE PUT THAT AN AWAKENED MAN MERELY RECOGNIZES
EVERYTHING FOR WHAT IT IS AND THAT’S THAT)
NO COMMENT — NO QUESTION.
AND UPON HEARING THIS SAID, ONE MAN’S LIVER NOTED:
“WELL, THAT’S ALWAYS BEEN MY APPROACH TO LIFE:’NO COMMENT — NO QUESTION!,/ SO HOW COME NO ONE’S EVER ASKED ME ABOUT THIS, ‘WAKING-UP’ STUFF?!”
LIVERS AND CORTEXS INDEED DO, “MARCH TO DIFFERENT DRUMMERS”,
BUT CORTEXS ARE GIVEN TO THE USE OF MENTAL “CLICK-TRACKS” RATHER THAN THE EMPLOYMENT OF ACTUAL HANDS WIELDING
ACTUAL DRUM STICKS.
IN THE WORLD OF DREAMS/
DREAMS ARE ALWAYS THE PREFERRED CURRENCY.
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ONE MAN NOTES: “I HAVE NO INTEREST IN ANYONE WHO WANTS ME TO BE INTERESTED IN THEM. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO ME AND MYSELF;
I ALREADY KNOW MORE ABOUT ME THAN IS INTERESTING,
AND FAR MORE THAN IS USEFUL.”
REMEMBER: A MAN WITH”NOTHING-TO-SAY”COULD PROVE MOST INTERESTING! — IF ONLY YOU AND HE WOULD BOTH SHUT UP.
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A QUICK GUIDE TO FINDING INFORMATION USEFUL TO AWAKENING: DISCARD ANYTHING THAT REFERS TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: DEATH, GOD/ FAMILY, LOVE, FINANCES, CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY, OR OTHER PEOPLE’S LIVES.
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TAKE TWO ROUTINE SELF DIAGNOSES AND THROW UP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,
AND A MAN SAID TO A MYSTIC: “THE ONE ASPECT OF YOUR IDEAS THAT I CONTINUALLY CANNOT ABIDE IS THEIR INCONSISTENCY. …I DON’T HOWEVER, ALWAYS FEEL THIS WAY.”