May
11, 2001.
THE
WEIRD MADE MUNDANE,
(AND VICE VERSA, SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR)
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A person who tells others that
he is trying to awaken --
is not --
and will never succeed in doing so.
Anyone who identifies their
self as a pursuer of
this-or-that mystical path
is pursuing nothing but self aggrandizement.
(which, if you don’t have
a self, is understandable.)
There is a secret, hidden truth
that you must know
for your efforts to ever pay
off –
and everyone knows what it is
–
they just don’t realize that
they know.
Thus, the ancient & honorable
metaphysical efforts to
melt-away-the-fat &
highlight-the-marrow.
Only the heroic would say:
“It goes against my grain to
repeat a tale already told;”
the common man, (on the other
hand), therein relishes!
(without it, in fact, what would
he have to say?!),
while the truly intrepid to
themselves note:
”To host a thought already thunk,
shames me same as though I’s drunk.”
One man says: “At one time my
idea of paradise was of
no one ever saying anything to me again.
Now I have that narrowed down to a single person,
I-have-in-mind, (so to speak).”
Trying to achieve in the mind
the thing called, awakening
is like a man with no feet
wanting to kick himself in the ankle.
If constant noise will keep away
undesirable spirits,
then what is the voice of consciousness keeping at bay?
Either: no one wants to answer
that question
because they can’t --
OR,
no one can because they don’t
want to.
(Hobson’s
hippocampusial hernia.)
Trying to stop an action requires
that you take action:
thus it never ends.
If, (as some have claimed),
acting is the lowest of the arts,
then that makes, “acting-like-a-human-who-knows”
--
-- WHAT?!
The thoughts of ordinary men
no more deserve to be condemned than they do to be honored, or even noticed.
You should treat the words of
men no more seriously than you do the song of a bird or the squeak of a
wheel.
Legalese
Update: An “Act of God” is anything that a man whose house has
a weak foundation would not enjoy.
(Wonder what the underpinnings
of your mind would say about this?….assuming of course that it has any.
Ooops!)
Once a man knows,
what distinguishes him then from ordinary men is,
(in a word): background
-- he has none.
Consciousness deemed unacceptable
is --
consciousness still.
Today’s:
Word From Mr. Science: “There are but two
avenues of pleasure available to men: actions & thinking;
all other life forms have only
one……except for plants…
…..they have neither…….no wonder
they’re so irritable.”
(Okay, how’s your mind measuring
itself against
this one?)
From
The Super Scout’s Handbook:
Respect not an adversary.
“Hey, my mind can beat up your awareness!
What the hell’m I talking about --
-- my mind can beat up MY awareness!”
For
The Files of The Super Unctuous:
He who gives advice needs
some badly……but sadly,
never knows it……………………………………...but
ah,
so goes it.
“Speaking of that,” injects a
fellow:
“I often give myself quite sound
sounding advice --
-- (but have the good
sense ne’er to listen.”
[And what urgeth your noodler
about this one?])
Did not ordinary men pretend
to be smart --
none would be
smart…………...or ordinary.
In that one great, secret craft,
as you move from the apprentice
to master level:
continued striving assures failure.
(Neat, huh?!...…and
totally un/non unionized.)
If you keep pushing your mind as best you can
someday it’ll happen that you do better
than you can.
"Okay, that's a wrap.
Bring on the reinvigorated
virgins."
J
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