June
15, 2001.
…THE CHASE CONTINUES.
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(Part 3 of a conversation.)
Off in the woods for a walk,
after a long stretch of silence,
the father started to talk to
the son again.
“The cause of all your complaints
and confusion is that:
you are the thinker, and not
the thought ABOUT.
If an ordinarily minded man
heard that he would vigorously disagree,
and insist that he indeed spends
a great deal of his life --
-- ‘thinking about himself’
-- but is that true?
We certainly know what he believes
he means by the statement,
but is it a valid reflection
of what is actually going on?
Routine people can never be made
to look beyond such an assertion;
the collective needs of man
does not require such,
thus most men have no further
interest in the matter.
I bring to a boil today what
I was stirring up for you yesterday
regarding the fact that men’s
brains make them say that there are certain things that they: “Will
not think about.”
We now discard the bay leaves
of examples, and go to the meat.
I have already put voice to the
sinews by saying that for the few,
the source of all your complaints
and confusion is that
you are the thinker rather than
the -- thought ABOUT
--
but let me be more accurate
and say that living in a dream comes from you being the apparent
thinker -- rather than the thought about.
There is the key distinction;
there is both the key AND
the lock that keeps your realization out of the sealed room.
When an ordinary man says that
he thinks about himself all of the time, he speaks inaccurately;
what he does think about comes
in two flavors :
things he has done,
(which as always, is irrelevant to our interests), and, what-he-has-thought-about.
The reality of it is that men
do not normally think about themselves,
but about what they have thought
about themselves,
ergo I say that the unrecognized,
original source of your confusion is that you accept yourself to be, The
Thinker,
rather than pursuing a course-of-life
wherein you,
(the apparent you), becomes
the -- thought-about;
and put in even greater detail
would be to say that:
the cause of you feeling hypnotized,
disoriented and at a disadvantage
is because you drift along playing
the part of, The Thinker
rather than making The Thinker
the thing thought ABOUT.
But even at this advanced verbal-based
outpost,
and after being exposed to such
mappings,
many of our more distant relatives
lose their way by believing that they ARE making themselves the thing thought
ABOUT
by making note of their posture;
how they walk; how they gesture when they talk; their hateful daydreams;
their laziness; their fearfulness; their lust, their greed, and so on --
but they too are missing it.
They still are not the thing
thought about
for all they are doing is thinking
about thoughts they have already had and thoughts they are now having,
regarding these subjects.
This can certainly be an enjoyable
way to pass the time,
and can make for entertaining
conversation among the similarly interested,
but noting how you are increasingly
aware of the negative thoughts
you have about your mother,
muslims, manchurians,
and anyone better looking than
you, accomplishes nothing,
for not only does it not tell
you anything that is new to you,
but moreover --
such tells you nothing that is useful,
(if your aim is still to, get-to-the-bottom-of-everything.)
To believe that, ‘your thoughts’
have any significance,
or useful information to convey,
or be uncovered,
requires that you pretend to
the intelligence of an imbecile;
it requires -- absolutely
-- that you do not -- THINK ABOUT
IT.
Life is constructed so that near
a hundred per cent of the six billion people on this planet passively AND
normally
accept the superficial neural
sensation in their head of there being some sort of, “them”
in there that is, “doing”
this, “thinking-thing”.
The world as we know it is run
on this basis,
and having none other by which
to compare it,
we can say with some reason
that its running goes rather well,
but that is not good enough
for our family, is it my boy?!
No sir -- not good enough
by a third.
We accept the physical realities
of life, (as must everyone,
but at least we don’t
fall for being their critic);
it is not the inescapable tangibles
of our existence that
drives us to these walks &
talks,
but is that specific operation
in our brain that produces thought --
and thought, while superficially
seeming to be that which is most reflective of what we individually are,
is no such thing;
the thoughts we unthinkingly
have,
have nothing to do
with us individually,
but -- my God boy! --
does it certainly want to seem otherwise
to us!
It is as though the whole weight
of the universe presses on man
to make him take the electro-chemical
impulses continually surging
through his brain which produce
in our heads,
words we apparently hear, and
images we apparently see,
and since they are inside
of us --
-- in the privacy of our
own individual head --
-- they are surely from us.
No ordinary man with an ordinary
mind ever looks at this matter truthfully, even for an eye-blink,
for if he did -- THEN
–
-- just
for an eye-blink -- he would see what is really
going on,
(although with an ordinary man
all it would do is
momentarily disorient him,
since his aim is not to get
out of this normal state of consciousness.)
What has long been given a name,
(such as: ‘Becoming Enlightened,’
and, ‘Waking
Up’), are a few men’s attempted descriptions
of what happened when they managed to somehow, stop being The
Thinker,
and the apparent Thinker
suddenly was the thought ABOUT.
The jig was up;
the con discovered;
the fraud exposed.
(Course I’m just engagin’ in
a bit of harmless hyperbole,
since man is not victim of some
hoax, or curse,
he just --
is-what-he-is,
but he is not exactly
as
the thoughts in
him say
that
he is.
So,
the mother-of-all-things-that-the-brain-makes-men-say-they
--
WILL
NOT THINK ABOUT is:
thinking
about the thing that seems to be doing the thinking.”
The elder stopped to examine
a flower, then said:“The difference ‘tween our family and the fockerellers
of the world is that
our wealth & privilege is
secret -- barely known even to ourselves.”
“But --
damn! -- what a treat, huh Dad?!”
”You could say that again, my
boy!, you could say that again!
........(‘cept of course for
my distaste for redundancy).”
J J
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