To “Be Asleep” Is to Be Forever Preparing– but Never Achieving…
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COPYRIGHT 2000: JAN COX
2000-1
THERE WAS ONCE A VENTRILOQUIST WITH A DUMMY WHOSE DESIRE WAS TO AWAKEN, AND IN PURSUIT THEREOF HE SUBJECTED BOTH HE AND THE DUMMY TO NUMEROUS UNDERTAKINGS.
THE DUMMY EVENTUALLY AWOKE BUT THE VENTRILOQUIST NEVER DID….
….AND WHEN HE REALIZED What HAD OCCURRED THE DUMMY ACHIEVED A FURTHER AWAKENING.
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THE WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THINKING ABOUT WHAT THINKING IS ACTUALLY ABOUT IS TO THINK ABOUT ANYTHING BUT THINKING.
THINK ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE; ABOUT WHAT THEY DO; ABOUT WHAT THEY SAY;
ABOUT WHAT THEY WEAR, HOW THEY WALK, WHAT THEY EAT, WHAT THEY BELIEVE,
…AND IF THIS BEGINS TO WEAR THIN, START THINKING ABOUT WHAT YOU WOULD SAY TO THEM IF YOU MET THEM,
ABOUT: HOW THEY ACT, WHAT THEY BELIEVE, HOW THEY LOOK, AND SO ON.
AND, OH YEAH: IF YOU REALLY GET DESPERATE YOU CAN ALWAYS THINK ABOUT YOURSELF ALONG THESE LINES AS THOUGH YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, (HOW YOU LOOK, WALK, TALK,ETC) …ANYTHING TO KEEP YOUR THINKING OFF THE SUBJECT OF THINKING.
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WHEN YOU LACK A FULL UNDERSTANDING OF THE MIND IT IS LIKE A PUZZLE WITHOUT A SOLUTION; LIKE A HIDDEN TREASURE WITHOUT A LOCATION; LIKE AN ANNOYING COMMOTION WITHIN YOU THAT TURNS OUT TO BE BUT AN ECHO OF SOME OTHER, UNKNOWN COMMOTION.
WHAT YOU SEEK’S NOT FAR AWAY,
BUT IN FACT, QUITE NIGH,
BUT WHAT IT SAYS, IT WHISPERS LOW
SO YOUR HEARING MUST BE SET ON HIGH.
….THE DUMMY AWOKE, BUT THE VENTRILOQUIST NEVER DID.
2000-2
A CLUTCH OF ESTABLISHED PROVERBS WITH my FRESH ADDITIONS:
“WE ARE WISER THAN WE KNOW.” — YES, BUT DUMBER ALSO.
“To BE GREAT IS TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD.” — PERHAPS, BUT A TRULY GREAT MAN
WOULD HAVE NO INTEREST IN BEING UNDERSTOOD OR NOT.
“To BE A MAN IS TO BE A MALCONTENT.” — OKAY, BUT IT SHOULD SAY:
“To BE A SLEEPING MAN IS TO BE A MALCONTENT.”, WHICH INSPIRES THIS QUESTION:
DOES BEING A MALCONTENT CAUSE YOU TO DREAM, OR VICE VERSA?
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WHILE WALKING THROUGH A CEMETERY, A MAN SAW A GRAVE MARKER WITH THESE WORDS
REGARDING ITS OCCUPANT:
“HE THOUGHT LITTLE; SAID EVEN LESS, AND DID WHAT WAS NECESSARY.”,
THE MAN STOPPED AND REFLECTED THEREON, THEN SAID TO HIMSELF:
“THAT IS NOT ONLY GOOD FOR THE DEAD,
THAT IS HOW I SHOULD BE CONDUCTING MYSELF EVEN AS I LIVE.”
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IN THE REALM OF THE MIND, ALL INVENTIONS ARE TRUE. THUS THEREIN, IS POETRY AS VALID AS SCIENCE.
‘TIS NOT SIMPLY THAT SOME THOUGHTS CAN MISLEAD YOU -THOUGHTS WILL MISLEAD YOU
SAVE IN THE SAFE CONFINES OF THEIR OWN SELF-REFERENTIAL DOMAIN.
HE WHO NEVER REALIZES THE NATURE OF THE MIND IS FOREVER LOST IN ITS CONFUSION. …CONFUSION OFTTIMES PASSING FOR INTELLIGENCE.
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To “BE ASLEEP” IS TO BE FOREVER PREPARING — BUT NEVER ACHIEVING.
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ALTHOUGH AWAKENING IS THE SAME FOR ALL, EACH MAN’S SLEEP IS UNIQUELY HIS OWN. THE UNREALIZED MIND IS A DOOR WITHOUT A KNOB; A TREASURE CHEST WITHOUT A LID.
2000-3
SOMEONE ONCE SAID: “THE POSSIBILITY OF A ‘RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE’
EXISTS IN THE SILENT GRANDEUR OF AN EMPTY CHURCH’S MAGNIFICENT ARCHITECTURE
BEFORE ANY SERVICES ARE UNDER WAY.”, AND I POINT OUT THAT THE REAL
POSSIBILITY OF FULL-REALIZATION IS EXTANT WHEN YOU ARE EMPTY —
WHEN THE “CHURCH’OF’YOUR-MIND” IS NOT FILLED WITH THE NOISE AND BUSTLE OF RITUALS.
A HUMANLY DESIGNED, PHYSICAL ARTIFACT CAN BE: DISASSEMBLED, RECONFIGURED, THEN REASSEMBLED — EVEN JERRY RIGGED — INTO A NEW FORM FOR A NEW PURPOSE, BUT NOT SO WITH THE HUMAN MIND AND EMOTIONAL TEMPERAMENT.
AND ONE MAN’S PRIVATE MOTTO WAS:
“DREAM LITTLE; SAY EVEN LESS, AND DO WHAT IS NECESSARY.”
ANOTHER SPECIFIC DISTINCTION BETWEEN ACTIVE “THINKING”, AND “DREAMING” IS THAT DREAMING HAS A LIFE AND VITALITY OF ITS OWN, AND OPERATES WITHOUT ANY
INPUT FROM, OR EVER SEEING BY YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS,
WHILE JUST THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE REGARDING THINKING.
ALSO: DREAMING NEVER REACHES ANY SATISFYING CONCLUSIONS, THIS IS THE SOLE DOMAIN OF ACTIVE THINKING.
DREAMS ARE ALSO REDUNDANT, WHILE THINKING REQUIRES THAT YOU FURNISH IT WITH A CONTINUAL SUPPLY OF FRESH FUEL.
AND LASTLY: DREAMING IS TIRING AND THINKING, REJUVENATING, (ALTHOUGH IN TRUTH, THIS ASPECT DEPENDS ON WHETHER A PERSON IS ATTEMPTING TO AWAKEN OR NOT.)
…OH, AND ONE MORE THING: YOUR DREAMING IS DEPENDENT ON, AND NATURAL TO YOUR GENETIC TEMPERAMENT, WHILE YOU CAN FORCE THINKING INTO FORMS THAT ARE FOREIGN TO YOUR NATIVE PERSONALITY.
ALL IN ALL: DREAMING IS FED FROM THE COMMON CACHE OF COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS, WHILE REAL THINKING IS A PURELY INDIVIDUALISTIC ACTIVITY.
2000-4
ONE WELL EXPERIENCED TRAVELER ON OUR WAY
ONE DAY LOOKED BACK AND REFLECTED:
“IT SEEMS TO ME THAT TO EVER GET ANY WHERE CLOSE TO THE GOAL OF THIS JOURNEY
YOU MUST BE ABLE TO AS YOU GO ALONG,
CHANGE MANY TIMES WHATEVER MAP YOU MAY BE USING,
FOR WHATEVER MAP OR SYSTEM YOU MAY BEGIN WITH,
IT WILL NOT TAKE YOU TO THE ULTIMATE DESTINATION —
….AND IF IT SEEMS TO
THEN YOU HAVE UNKNOWINGLY DIED AND WITHERED INTO FETAL SUBMISSION
SOME PLACE ALONG THE WAY.
No DOUBT ABOUT IT: THE DEAD AND THE INERT DO — ‘REST EASY’, (IF THAT’LL SATISFY YOU.)”
MAN’S MENTALLY BASED, SECONDARY REALITY WOULD COLLAPSE WITHOUT “PLOTS”: AN ORDINARY MAN MUST HAVE PLOTS TO BE NORMAL…. …A MAN MUST HAVE PLOTS TO STAY ASLEEP.
THOSE INTERESTED IN FULLY WAKING UP SHOULD GAIN A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF JUST WHAT “WAKING UP” IS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE SO THAT THEY CAN BEGIN TO FREE THEMSELF FROM THE MISCONCEPTIONS SUCH KNOWLEDGE INFLICTS,
WHEN FULLY AWAKE — PLOTS LOSE ALL THEIR ATTRACTION.
A BOY WHO’D GONE OFF ON THE GREAT QUEST, SOME YEARS THERE INTO ASKED HIMSELF: “WHY DID I NOT STAY HOME AND LEARN WHAT I NEEDED TO KNOW FROM MY FATHER —
WHO WAS ALREADY THERE AND AVAILABLE, AND WHO SURELY KNEW ALL THAT I NEED TO KNOW?”
AND SOME YEARS AFTER POSING THAT, THE LAD REALIZED THAT THE REASON HE’D LEFT WAS DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE MIND;
THAT HE HAD TO — “GO AWAY FROM HOME ON A QUEST”;
A “STAY-AT-HOME-MIND” NEVER GETS SUFFICIENTLY CRANKED UP TO SOME DAY REALIZE THE ILLUSION OF ITS HAVING EVER LEFT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
YOU HAVE TO FIRST PLAY, “IDIOT-PASSING-FAR-A-SAGE” TO EVER ACTUALLY”WISE UP”, AND UN-IDIOTIZE YOURSELF
ARTISTS ARE NOT BORN — THEY’RE MADE! OKAY, SO ARTISTS ARE BORN,
BUT THE “AWAKENED” ARE MADE….COURSE THAT TOO IS AN ILLUSION, BUT ONCE YOU GET THERE,
IT NO LONGER MATTERS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
2000-5
FOR THOSE WISHING TO UNDERSTANDING “AWAKENING”, ALL REFLECTIONS ON,
AND INTERNAL COMMENTS ABOUT YOURSELF ARE SOPORIFICS.
AT BASE LEVEL THERE IS SIMPLY NO NEURAL ACTIVITY CONCERNING ONESELF THAT IS HELPFUL TO “THE CAUSE” — SO:
INVESTIGATE THE AFFAIR AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN
THEN — GET OUTTA THERE — PRONTO!
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THERE MAY ONLY BE A COUPLE OF REASONS WHY SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THEY, “WANT TO WAKE UP”, (WHICH COULD BE AS FOLLOWS):
THAT IF THEY WERE AWAKE THEY WOULD: BE LESS FORGETFUL; LESS CLUMSY; LESS LIEKLY TO MAKE HASTY DECISIONS, BUT MAINLY THAT THEY BELIEVE THEY WANT TO AWAKEN SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ONCE HEARD ABOUT IT,
AND DECIDED THEY WANTED TO DO IT.
OKAY, EVERYBODY WHO LIKES AND IS COMFORTABLE WITH THESE POSSIBLE REASONS, RAISE YOUR HANDS — THE REST OF — HEY, MAKE UP YOUR OWN.
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THERE WERE TWO STORES, SIDE BY SIDE, ONE WITH A SIGN PROMISING: “ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH BEHAVIOR”, WHILE THE OTHER ONE OFFERED: “ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH UNDERSTANDING WHAT ENLIGHTENMENT IS.”, AND THE SECOND ONE ALSO HAD AN ARROW ON ITS SIGN WHICH POINTED OVER TO
THE FIRST STORE AND WARNED: “DON’T MAKE A $200 MISTAKE.”
…(FEW POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS HAD ANY IDEA WHAT THIS MEANT, BUT HEY, TWO HUNDRED BUCKS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER’S NO BIG DEAL, RIGHT?!)
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TRYING TO AWAKEN IS LIKE ATTEMPTING TO REPRIMAND A VOICE YOU HEAR INSIDE YOU WHICH IN. TRUTH IS YOU.
CAN ANYONE SPELL, “FRUSTRATION”?
AND BY THE BY, DOES ANYONE KNOW THE DEFINITION OF, “DOUBLE FRUSTRATION”?… THAT’S IN NOT REALIZING WHAT IS ACTUALLY CAUSING YOUR FRUSTRATION.
2000-6
ONE GROUP REFERRED TO THEIR EFFORT TO AWAKEN AS: “THE STRUGGLE AGAINST GENETICS”,
AND CALLED, “BEING ASLEEP”:
“THE GREAT NEURONAL MISDIRECTION.”
AND THIS ONE MAN,(AFTER BECOMING SUFFICIENTLY HIP TO WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON), STOPPED THINKING ABOUT WHAT HE WAS DOING IN ANY TERMS.
WHEN YOU’RE ASLEEP YOU SEE ALL OF LIFE AS AN ALLEGORY)
WHEN YOU’RE NOT ASLEEP YOU NO LONGER FEEL AS THOUGH YOU’RE. A PART OF ONE.
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THOSE WHO WANT TO AWAKEN ARE PEOPLE”OPPOSED TO DESTINY.”,
AND PEOPLE “OPPOSED TO DESTINY” ARE THOSE OPPOSED TO WATER TAKING THE EASY ROUTE AND RUNNING DOWN HILL.
THE BODY OF A REASONABLE MAN IS ALWAYS ATTENTIVE TO THE INSTANT MOMENT & PLACE, EVEN WHILE HIS CONSCIOUSNESS IS OFTEN NOT.
ORDINARY, REASONABLE MEN TAKE LITTLE NOTICE OF THIS, AND ALMOST NEVER FIND ANY FAULT THEREWITH.
NON ORDINARY, NONCHALANTLY REASONABLE MEN DO NOTICE! —
AND DO FIND FAULT THEREWITH, AND DO TRY TO CHANGE THE SITUATION.
SO WHAT’D THINK??
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To SAY THAT THOSE WHO WANT TO AWAKEN ARE “OPPOSED TO DESTINY” IS TO SAY THAT: “THEY ARE OPPOSED TO CERTAIN BODILY FUNCTIONS OF WHOSE MECHANICALNESS THEY ARE AWARE’ NOPE, NOT QUITE, HERE’S WHAT IT REALLY SHOULD SAY:
“THEY ARE OPPOSED TO A CERTAIN BODILY FUNCTION OF WHOSE MECHANICALNESS
THE FUNCTION ITSELF IS AWARE.” SO A MAN WOULD HAVE NO DESIRE TO AWAKEN EVEN
AFTER HE HEARD OF SUCH OF THING IF THE CONSCIOUS PART OF HIS BRAIN
DIDN’T STOP TO PONDER JUST HOW AUTOMATICALLY DOES GENERALLY RUN, THAT FUNCTION.
…AND THEN, EVEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, THE CONSCIOUS AREAS WOULD HAVE TO
COME TO THE CONCLUSION (FOR, GOD KNOWS WHAT REASON) THAT THIS MECHANICAL ASPECT OF ITS CERTAIN OPERATIONS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND SHOULD BE CHANGED.
2000-7
WANTING TO AWAKEN CONSCIOUSNESS ANEW AND TO STABILIZE AND SPECIFICALLY FOCUS ATTENTION
IS SIMILAR TO THE SCENE OF A LEAF FLOATING DOWN A RIVER
WHICH ATTEMPTS TO STOP ITS DRIFT.
AND A BOY ASKED HIS FATHER: “EXACTLY WHAT IS THE DISTINCT BETWEEN, ‘CONSCIOUSNESS’ AND ‘ATTENTION’?”, AND HIS ELDER ASSURED HIM THAT
DISCOVERING THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION FOR HIMSELF WOULD BE A MOST SPLENDID, AND PROFITABLE UNDERTAKING.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING, “KINDA ENLIGHTENED” AND “REALLY ENLIGHTENED” IS THAT WHEN YOU REALLY ARE
YOU REALIZE WHAT “ENLIGHTENMENT” ACTUALLY IS.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING “SORT OF AWAKE” AND “ACTUALLY AWAKE” IS THAT WHEN YOU ACTUALLY ARE
YOU ARE MORE OF THE TIME THAN NOT.
AND A LAD ASKED HIS DAD: “IS ANYONE EVER FULLY AWAKE AND ENLIGHTENED
ALL OF THE TIME — EVERY SINGLE MOMENT OF THEIR LIFE?”, AND THE OLD MAN REPLIED: “CAN THE PLANET SURVIVE WITHOUT RAIN?: CAN THE MIND OPERATE WITHOUT THOUGHTS?:, CAN WORDS EXIST WITHOUT LETTERS – ANSWERS WITHOUT QUESTIONS?
GO FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF.”
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ONE MAN NOTES: “AS REGARDS THE ‘ME’ OF MY THOUGHTFUL CONSCIOUSNESS:
I DON’T SO MUCH MIND BEING THE DUMMY TO SOME VENTRILOQUIST —
MY MAJOR COMPLAINT IS ABOUT HOW HE OPERATES ME,
ABOUT THE THINGS HE PUTS IN MY HEAD AND MOUTH
WHICH SERVE PRIMARILY TO KEEP ME IN A KIND OF TRANCE.
WHAT’S HIS PURPOSE IN THIS? —
WHY DOES THE VENTRILOQUIST EVEN BOTHER HAVING ME IF THIS IS ALL HE’S GOING TO
DO WITH MP
HE COULD/AVE LEFT ME AN UNTOUCHED BLOCK OF WOOD
FOR ALL THE GOOD THIS IS ACCOMPLISHING. WHY IS HE DOING THIS?”,
AND IT WAS THE PURSUIT OF JUST SUCH A QUESTION THAT BROUGHT ABOUT THE DUMMY’S AWAKENING IN MY ORIGINAL STORY.
CAN VENTRILOQUISTS EXIST WITHOUT DUMMIES? – CAN DUMMIES EXIST WITHOUT
VENTRILOQUISTS.. FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF.