May
30, 2001.
The problems men perceive in
life -- of types, there are two:
those you can put your hands
on -- and possibly fix,
and those you cannot touch
-- which are fools’ pastimes.
Anything man can lay his hands
on, he can change;
a small child with a spoon can
affect some change on a large mountain, and any machine, no matter how
badly broken, can be rebuilt.
If it is in the natural world
& can be touched -- man can alter it;
if man made it & it can
be touched -- he can repair it;
anything other than that is
mazes for mental hamsters,
(read: your normal fellow earthlingers.)
The primo problem in life is
staying
alive,
and everyone realizes that doing
so requires hands-on activities,
but to have an existence beyond
mere physical survival,
one that is fully human, and
makes use of man’s unique qualities,
requires that you continually
live a portion of your life involved in
activities that have no material
nature: The
world of thoughts.
Thoughts, in their naturally
occurring state,
do not distinguish themselves
from tangible entities,
and even though they clearly
be of a different reality,
it is almost impossible to make
them so aware.
Thoughts look at a library and
say: “There is knowledge,”
or at a cathedral, and say:
“There is religion” yet that is not so;
there stands structures men
built to physically represent
certain thoughts they have had,
(adding a new wing to the psychology
department will increase
no one’s understanding of human
nature, nor settle any debates
between opposing theories thereof).
Once man’s survival needs are,
“met-for-the-day,” (so to speak,
which presently for most, consumes
literally, very little time),
the rest of his energy is spent
running about in his mental world:
reading, talking, day dreaming,
and what his thoughts believe
they encounter in these activities
is an endless stream of problems:
things that simply are not “right”
--- in the world of thought,
and things that should be “fixed”
-- in the world of thought -- but,
nothing you cannot touch can
be
fixed, or changed.
The
roulette wheel that is the collective mind of man is unique
to
physics in that the movement of the ball provides the energy that
turns
the wheel to make the ball move.
Even from afar, a man can give
directions to repair a disabled machine, or perform surgery,
but no man can communicate with
another to instruct him how he can change his views on a certain matter,
(as if he wanted to anyway).
With you holding a sword to
his throat, you can cause a man with different political, or religious
thoughts to sign a membership card of your party, or church,
but with nothing other than
your thoughts as a weapon, all you can expect for your efforts is endless
opposition & frustration.
Ordinary men see other men to
be holding faulty thoughts,
which however, can be repaired
if they will but avail themselves of your correct ones,
then they -- and the whole
world -- would be much better off.
Thoughts cannot be fixed -- for none are broken;
thoughts cannot be changed -- 'cause you can’t get your
hands on ‘em.
The usefulness of having a constant
awareness of this
non standard realization is,
as always,
as it applies to the operations
in your own brain.
In that one lump, confined to
your skull,
all that has been above noted
as occurring in life -- occurs in you.
One part of your brain has thoughts;
another part of your brain finds
the thoughts faulty,
and wants them fixed.
Ordinary -- educated, sophisticated
men attribute the situation
to their being indoctrinated
with other people’s thoughts,
(parents, peers, society), which
conflict with theirs.
Those brains born to accept
this common explanation can never see its patently absurd limitations;
such brains make up almost entirely
the collective thinking of mankind, and represents his combined, conventional
wisdom.
But there are no mental sins
of fathers to pass on to sons;
there are no wrong religious
ideas of one group to infect another,
and the conflict & confusion
in your own head has not its roots
anywhere outside of your head.
Every man’s perception of there
being problems in life which needed to be fixed, comes from-&-through
his own brain.
Once a man was verbally-conscious,
if he could be totally isolated
in conditions where physical
survival was not a challenge,
even having no knowledge of
the affairs of the rest of humanity,
his brain would continue to
turn out problem thoughts that it would then find in need of repair.
Neither
circumstances, nor other men’s inadequate minds
are
responsible for the endless number of erroneous thoughts
by
which you are surrounded -- and which --
surround & imprison your own mind.
Being concerned-with, and believing
you can fix problems that you cannot put your hands on will keep you forever,
(as the mystics like to say):
Fast, fast asleep in a world of dreams.
Without question, it is an inner
world that is the natural & acceptable
home for six billion of your
fellow creatures,
and a world, you might note,
that continues to grow & flourish
in spite of the incessant dire
warnings of calamity that will surely come to pass if all the broken thoughts
floating around are not soon seen to,
and corrected.
An ordinary, sane & sensible
mind can out-of-hand
dismiss all that has been supra
said;
and while it is genuine,
none of it can be “proven” to
an ordinary mind --
and
it makes no difference to anyone,
or anything any way.
Only a few people are born with
brains wired & primed to
directly accept the difference
between what you can touch,
and what you cannot,
and the important -- but
– quite different roles they play
in the life of homo sapiens.
To be of ordinary mind &
comprehension is to be forever wanting to fix things that cannot be fixed
in that they exist only in men’s
thoughts,
and regardless that your natural
ones insist that even thoughts can be
broken, irregular & erroneous,
no one’s thoughts can repair
another’s -- note:
your own brain cannot fix the
improper thoughts that it itself produces:
it tries to, “wake
up” & “achieve enlightenment” --
but what is the consistent result?
There is no question of the experiential
reality behind such terms,
but those WITH
it -- know what it is and what it is not,
and what it is not
is
a fixing of a world not in need of repair.
J
…(this includes as always, both in-here &
out-there.)
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