The Twin Features Of The Case
 

It is both the most baffling affair that the mind can ever confront, while yet being   --   simplicity itself.
 

      The bewilderment arises from the fact that 
   although the investigation clearly appears to be 
                             about one thing, 
it is in unrecognized fact about  --  the investigation:
 a reality almost impossible for the investigator to 

                                 ever realize.
 

The unresolved confusion this brings to the case is of
such width and depth that it literally defies adequate description, and what is presented in the above 
35 words is about the best that can be said.
(‘Tis not unlike asking an eagle to 
tell about updrafts.
There is in physical fact no ultimate distinction
between  ”things,” 
as such are perceived & defined by the mind,
and their “environment,” 
also as per mortally conceived,
and thus the investigator’s extreme difficulty in ever
discovering that his inquiry, which clearly to his mind
appears to be about matters extrinsic to him,
is in truth about a matter solely internal to him --
--  the investigation itself.
[What are the odds of cotton fibers ever realizing that
they are a coat?])
 
 

The second feature of the case is more agreeable to description  --  no it’s not, but don’t let that stop you.

The crime is one of such simplicity that most of those
who witness its continuous execution are not even aware of it, (yeah they are, but there is such pressure put on them that they pretend not to be),
for you see  --
the crime IS   --    being conscious.
  --  and those who get double-mugged are the ones
who try to actually investigate it!
 

         Here is what you are looking for  --   in advance:
                   The solution to the investigation 
                      is in the fact that you want to 
                         STAGE an investigation.
 
 
 

The mind’s natural & immediate inclination
when handed a magnifying glass, or binoculars
is to put them to eye/I and look out at something --
but --  Noooooo! --  that is not how this case works;
turn the instruments around;
turn your attention around -- 
                --  turn the investigation around.
 
 

This entire affair is entirely too simple to ever be solved  --  save by those who can grasp what,
”simplicity & clarity of mind” means:
it means a poverty of mind;
it means an empty room of mind;
it means a mind with an open door through which can 
unresisted enter --  and just as easily depart --
all of the unreliable evidence, 
and insincere reports concerning the case 
as life may make available.
 
 

Throughout your investigation,
keep filed in the unused folds of your cortex
the twin features of:
This case being so strange as to defy mental solution --  along with the fact that:
     it could hardly BE simpler to see through.

                                Carry on.
 

                                    J
 
 
 

.............Oh yeah  --  Sunday’s Dessert.
 
 

There is no such thing as something you cannot touch,
and everything in the universe understands this…….
…except the thing saying this.
 
 
 

 
                     *
 
 
 

Enlightened consciousness is not conscious -- 
-- not in the sense that ordinary consciousness 
defines consciousness.

 Men wanting the cure, begin by seeking more consciousness, without understanding that consciousness is wherein exists the illness. 
 
 
 

                      *
 
 
 
 

The Understanding Mind is like space;
nothing confines space, 
and neither is anything IN it 
confined BY it. 
 
 
 

                                        * 
 

         Another Example Of How Things Are:

A man who preaches that meat eating is not 
hostile to awakening  --  is not awake, 
and only says it to justify his eating of meat.
If you think that a man who preaches that 
meat eating is not hostile to awakening, 
only says it to justify his eating of meat  --
                    --  you’re not awake.
 
 
 

                                      *
 
 
 

Men who just have to “tell you about it,”
just don’t know about it.

The only thing to tell is that there is nothing to tell.

Rule: Never listen to a man who does not, 
                            as he speaks, 
                demonstrate the attempted 
               swallowing of one’s own lips.
 
 
 
 

       Although it appears otherwise,
a man who knows what’s going on in life
is not what you would call, “sincere"
in his dealings with the routine world --
--  the fact is that it is not possible to
     know how things work, AND be so.
 
 

             Continue your carrying on.
                                 J again