Our lead story for this Tuesday is all of:
”late breaking,” ancient, and timeless,
at least for readers with that certain, 
highly-specialized,
”I’m-still-not-quite-sure-what-it-is”  --  interest.
 
 
 
 

                  MAN FOUND LAYING IN BED
 

If you really want to 
get-to-the-bottom-of-everything,
and know the truth about life,
you don’t have to leave home to join some 
exotic organization on the other side of the world, 
and meditate ten hours a day;
use what you’ve got now;
don’t waste your mornings;
as soon as you wake up,
keep laying there and juggle this one thought : 
“Who IS it laying here thinking: 
‘Who is it laying here thinking this’?”

You do not have to study the
ten-thousand-ancient-manuscripts,
nor follow the directions of some present teacher,
and you don’t have to give up meat, movies, or sex,
or change your life in any way, 
other than as your own subsequent understanding 
may suggest.

BUT -- 
the kinds of things just noted 
that you do not have to do
to get the knowledge
are the very kinds of things that people are quite 
willing to do in such an attempt.
It seems that the more physically specific 
be the demands  --  the greater is the attraction. 
      …(It’s just the way people are.)
 

AND --
the kind of thing just noted about
laying in bed, caressing the one thought:
”Who IS it laying here having the thought:
’Who is it laying here having this thought?’”
is precisely the kind of thing that 
seriously spooks people’s minds, 
and shakes the foundations of their sense of a self. 

The first kinds of things can be entertaining --
but are finally frustrating;
that second thing of asking yourself: 
who is it asking yourself: 
who is it asking yourself this question --
opens out into infinity --
into the truth about everything man can think about.

Beyond what seeing-this-question-through will do --
--  there is nothing;
beyond what finally understanding what 
this question means  -- 
--  there is nothing else to understanding.

When you know who is asking the question --
--  you know it all.
       …(check mate.)
 
 
 

                                          *
 

Now some additional stories totally unrelated to 
the above……….……… (our humor for the day).
 
 
 
 

                                           *
 
 

If you take ideas to be real -- you wander into a mine;
if you take ideas to be about anything other than 
other ideas  -- 
--  you’re in a mine with a hood over your head.
 
 
 

                                 *
 
 
 

Not only is it the ordinary who survive ordinary affairs,
it is also the fairly ordinary who see the 
extraordinary matter through.

                              Be just a regular person with an 
                                           irregular interest.
 
 
 

                                             *
 
 
 

A detective always-on-the-move 
will never solve the case,
nor a dog with runny eyes 
ever get his inheritance.
 
 
 

                                             *
 
 
 
 

One method to keep yourself receptive to 
the understanding is to --   KEEP TALKING!
No, not the you doing the talking now, 
but that OTHER you! 

   Perhaps the greatest unwitting example of 
this approach in action would be a 
play-by-play sports announcer: 
giving his attention to both:  the outside world, AND his  own voice. 
 
 
 

                                             *
 
 
 
 

                   Not having the knowledge is okay;
                not having it and pretending that you DO
                                  is a sorry sight.
 
 
 
 

                                             *
 
 
 

What if the body is the full expression of awakening?! -- 
--  after all,
what could possibly be more awake than your body?! 
 

... (So that it does turn out to be all a matter of behavior .
                   "......Hummm?!?..."    ----       Hummm. )
 
 
 
 

                                               *
 
 
 

A fog that too often meditates on itself --
becomes iron.

Leave that which is meaningless, well-the-hell-alone. 
…(Foolin’ with it will only make it more so.)
 
 
 
 
 

                                              *
 
 
 
 

The way of profit is not the study of 
what’s buggin’ you, 
but of what it is in you that’s being bugged.

You begin by searching for the source of the agitation,
and end up trying to locate who it is aware of
                                    the agitation.
 
 
 
 

                                             *
 
 
 
 

If you do not grasp why an investigator cannot investigate himself, ask yourself this: 
                 can your body go off in search of itself?
 
 
 
 

                                             *
 
 
 
 

A man said: “I believe only one thing to be true; 
that which a wise man told me, which is that: 
‘Nothing is true.’ 
That is the only thing I now believe to be true,”
but he still doesn’t get it  -- 
--  he still doesn’t know what is true, 
                   and he still doesn’t get it.
 
 
 
 
 

And in conclusion we take note of yet another 
strange mystery in our files:
             The Curious Case That Could Only Be Solved By 
                                   Abandoning It.
 

…(keep your de-coder rings set on Ready, little rangers.)
 

                                                 J
 
 
 
 

As regards having-the-permanent-understanding,
when one man was accused of being a mere poseur,
he mused:  “Hell, I’m not even at that level.”