FACTS
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Those who talk about enlightenment, 
and say are significant, such subjects as: 
health, money, dying, politics, religion, 
duty to humanity, and obligations to ancestors, 
gods, and spiritual teachers, 
are as far from the reality of enlightenment as 
any bum, or murderer.
 
 
 
 
 
 

One man had one major complaint: 
the wind kept blowing the cloth off of his picnic table, 
and oblivious to what he was actually doing,
he kept trying to weight it down 
using the only thing he found available -- the table cloth.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                       There is a thing in which 
                       the fuel that runs it is 
                       also where it goes.
 
 
 
 
 
 

A son questioned his father’s repeated insistence that men’s ordinary mental life is one of almost total pretend,
and him offering as an example his claim that 
no one actually believes what their religion says,
by countering that he was unfairly limiting his evidence to the unsophisticated of the world,
and the elder responded by pointing out that 
even the highly educated & worldly-wise 
pretend to believe in economic forecasts when they 
know full well from experience that they are
patently unreliable.
Some people mentally cherish the Easter Bunny,
and some, the Tooth Fairy,
and each can ridicule the other’s folly --
but in a man who is out-of-bed with eyes-awake,
the twain doeth meet,
and the outcome of the collusion is --  a nothingness;
a mental spaciousness with room for all who 
need to enter, and which is 
hospitably indifferent to all its uninvited guests.
 
 
 
 
 
 

If you still look to sources outside yourself 
for instructions on how to behave in your external life, 
you are in no position to make use of any info 
regarding your internal life. 
Beavers spend all morning gnawing down trees and building dams; who expects them to interrupt an afternoon nap to do volunteer work?!
It is most common among people who insist that they want to know the truth about what they are 
to say that first they must paint their house, lose weight, reseed the lawn, work out certain social problems, 
just generally  -- get their visible life in order 
before they can properly pursue the real aim. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

There is no mind other than your mind,
and other than what you bump into,
there is no world out-there, 
other than your mind of it.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Everybody is, (as mystics call it)  --  asleep,
but only those who hear about it -- 
 and then think about it  --  CARE.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

To ever get-to-the-bottom-of-things
you must recognize when you get to the end of things.
                      The ordinary stop too soon;
                      the hungry tend never to.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

If you must be taught compassion, 
the other lessons you need to learn, 
a life time is too short to permit.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Maxim Update: Those who cannot remember the past
                          do not miss much.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The mind can believe anything.
…(and it can make things that are most unbelievable       become believable.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A person’s responsibilities in life are 
whatever he accepts them to be,
but for maximum efficiency he should 
shoulder only those he has apparently chosen.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

There is energy stored in imagination,
and when applied to things material, 
can change them,
but when applied to things incorporeal, 
only reinforces their illusionary power.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

In spite of their noise to the contrary; 
ordinary people accept who they are;
a scant few never do,
and as per myth:
these are the mortals the gods are impressed by   --
……or else the ones they laugh at. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Anything said about the incorporeal is a lie,
and anything said about the thing that 
speaks of the incorporeal is a falsehood doubled. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

If you still have a retort to anything
 anyone says to you, 
you still do not understand what “saysing” is all about.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

By necessity, all people are born actors;
then by apparent inclination, the practice of their craft is distinguished by their scenery chewing.
Men tend to overdo whatever they do in their mental reality; in fact, a large part of its attraction is that,
(contrasted to physical reality),
you can do so and suffer no harm.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

You may instantly & profitably stop listening to anything that begins with the words: 
“Ever since 19___…”(fill in the date).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Anyone who says that they want to understand
what is really going on that makes them so 
persistently dissatisfied --  and  who looks outside of themselves for any sort of an answer --
                           -- is fooling themselves  -- 
and that's what is really going on THERE.
 
 
 
 
 

      Things not discovered on your own
             are not truly known.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Men will give up all manner of pleasant, 
destructive habits before they will give up their heroes.
Loving the Lone Ranger carries with it the belief that 
Silver will one day relieve you of walking.
Men can experience an emotional joy singular to humans that is based on fond mental pictures of the deceased,
(and otherwise, non present),
and which begs to be turned into dreams of 
mortals-becoming-super-mortals --
--  images made more palatable by distance in time.

Note: distance-in-time generally equates to: 
distance from reality,
and not even superheroes, or gods can 
wake up at any time but now; 
(and further note): they cannot, 
apart from your thinking of them --
and if you are thinking of them as being awake --
then your thinking at that moment must be awake.
…..WHAT?! --  you’ve never NOTICED?!?!
Well right there is your problem.
You continue to understandably think that there is certainly a striking difference between 
day light and night time,
and yet this belief keeps you from recognizing the  flashes of light ever present in your life.
 
 

Waking up is the Mississippi at flood stage;
how are you going to keep it out of your house --
even if you wanted to?!
You will finally see it as never having been so much a problem of struggling to be awake,
as it was the effort involved in pretending that you weren’t.
 

                      Relax --
unnecessary tension & pressure is unnecessary;
                                    ease up;
          the sky’s clear;  the beach is deserted; 
            grab your board  ---  "Reality’s up!"