…OH YEAH:
                                    ________
 
 
 
 
 

There are two commonly employed initial approaches:
”I want to feel better,” or,
”I want to understand,”
but it eventually comes down to this:
”I want to understand why I don’t feel better.”
 
 

The beings on Planet X have the X faculty --
which is the greatest thing that ever happened to them;
it is also the most frustrating;
and the most annoying;
and the most confusing;
yet without it, they would have never realized 
when they were:  frustrated, annoyed & confused.
 

Temperament & mind;
hormones & neurons;
horses & saddles;
herds & individual yards;
passions & purpose, and 
passion with no visible target.
You either hear clear thru the collective-reality-din,
or else the cacophony of mass mooing will keep you
forever, distracted & distraught. 

          “Forever is a long time!”
                 "Not as long as mind though.”
          “Oh.”
 

A man can outlive everything except 
his mental concept of an end.
Immature thinking persists in believing that it
came from somewhere, and thus must be 
going some place.
       Slides & merry go rounds to pacify children.
                    (Up, down --  round-&-round.)

Only the invisible-rich can ever afford to 
leave the neighborhood neural-network-playground.

            “Us thoughts have got to stick together.
               We should take a lesson from them cows.”
 

Science Update: The most powerful neurotransmitter has yet to be identified: glue!
                                       …(and the desire to be liked.)
 
 
 
 
 

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There is a river that has no source;
it is the headwaters for washing-out-your-head -- and,
getting-wised-up.
Who cannot fail but be impressed by a 
mighty floodwater that bathes everything men do --
 --  yet  has no source.

           Find the sound this fact makes, 
              and you’ve uncovered it all.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

               *
 
 
 
 
 

One man would sing to himself 
in a mirror each morning:
      “Anything you can say, I can say better.
       No I can’t  --  yes I can;
       yes I can, no I can’t  --  maybe so.”

A man on familiar terms with a reflective device
never lacks for as reliable a pretend-friend 
as you can have in this life.

               (“Can you spell --  oh, never mind.”)
 

On one world is a planet-wide gym
in which everyone is thoroughly worn out,
and then their wrinkled road maps --  thrown out.

Question: In how many different ways, (do you figure), 
can a faulty map be folded and re-folded before it 
falls apart?
                (“Not soon enough for me, my boy -- 
                  not nearly soon enough for me.”)
 
 
 
 
 

                                      *
 
 
 
 
 
 

There is no promotion without self promotion.

.......oh yeah: and there is no self without promotion of self.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

One guy's motto was: "Other than for eatin' & sleepin' --
everything else is just theatrics any way."
 
 
 
 
 

                                     *
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

If you’re talkin’, you’re squakin’;
if you’re speakin’, you’re squeakin’;
if you’re yackin’, you’re crackin’;
if you’re pipin’ up, you’re gripin’ up.
Ordinary mind cannot comment on life
 without nit picking it.

      Hark! mighty phokneechins! 
            Save your pickin’ --  see thru the nitin’.
 
 
 
 
 
 

                                    *
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

All men are born butchers;
born cutting up lions into lamb chops;
forests into toothpicks;
orchards into fruit salad;
clear-channel-communication into am radio.
It’s all hype --  all news-talk-&-sports-entertainment --
--   not actual news;
that only occurs when butchering is run in reverse.
 

  (“Perhaps me laddies, we have the inspiration for 
     the phrase:
    ‘You can’t get there from anywhere I’M familiar with!’”)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                                     *
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The most pathetic & idiotic sound 
a human being can make
is to remark on features of life that they find to be  -- 
                                -- “not right.”
 

Seeing what life is about is not in seeing 
what is right or  what seems wrong about life, 
but in realizing the nature of such mortal, 
                                pseudo-seeing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                                     *  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Even the most foolish of ordinary minds can 
explain life in a way that makes sense,
but the sense life makes from all human descriptions
is a sense that supports only itself;
all words prove only themselves,
and all who give all of their hearing over to words
never get to the underlying sense of life --
-- which is self-explanatory --  and total in its doing so.
 

The vitality of a cow can never be understood from
looking at its butchered parts;
realizing what is going on fills you with such unity 
that your head is too complete to speak.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                                     *
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A father said to a son:
”I do not know what, ‘knowing’ is,
but I do know what, ‘NOT knowing’ is,”
     “Which is?”
”Believing you know what knowing is.”

There is no full describing of mind
in that it would require a running description of the process behind the describing --
-- and no one can see the back of their own head.

             Waking-up is facing up to this fact.
 

“Patrick, oh Patrick:  give me passion --  or -- 
 give me knowledge!………………….no wait:
                give me the steady sight of their union -- 
                         and I’ll take it from there.”
 
 
 
 

If a man's natural born temperament is to,
beat-up-on-himself-in-his-mind,
verbal recommendations, “not to” are of little help.
Move the bubbling combat back to where it started;
back to where it can once again belong: 
                                        out of the mind.

                 (“And rot in hell for all I care.”)

  Yaz'zer!   Rot on, young troopers --  rot on!
 
 
 
 
 
 

                                    *
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

When you learn to look correctly inward,
you realize there is no self there  -- and yet, 
there is nothing there but self.
 

Everything is you;
confusion is you  --  understanding is you;
what you see is you  --  what is hidden is you;
being asleep is you  --  being awake is you;
staying as you are is you --  being different is also you.
 

Everything is you;
this is enlightenment, and discovery of the source.
 

                                          J