August
5, 2001.
In the three dimensional, temporal
world in which thought
normally operates,
merry go rounds represent both
the summary of simplicity,
and the epitome of complexity;
thus is the meaningless efficiency
always present in
life on the-midway-of-the-mind.
In the apparent
Land Of Logic,
it is always, “Carnival
time” somewhere,
(which is why you can’t
get home delivery of The Truth
on the weekend.)
One
man said: “I admit: I do have some thoughts of which
I
do not approve,” and a passer by added:
“All
you are admitting is that you have thoughts.”
It is always those without dogs
who want to be judges at kennel shows,
(“And
damn if them succeedin’, ain’t about how life works!”)
To
be asleep is to feel that you are primarily driven by
external
conditions;
to
want-to-wake-up is to conclude that you are mainly controlled by conditions
inside
of you;
to
actually, BE awake is to have gotten past all of this.
Only
those who do not know what is going on still debate the question of:
“What
IS
going on?”
Consciousness = resistance;
being conscious causes men to
resist certain things,
things that come from the consciousness
of other men.
From one view,
the prime purpose of consciousness
is to make men resist things; to resist the way they are --
and to want to change.
This is the natural life of a creature who is conscious.
In regard to mankind’s continuing
debate over the question of
what is real and what isn’t,
we were here today, going to
have various & competing views
aired, via a round robin discussion
-- but on the way over,
he was viciously attacked by
a gang of blue jays.
If
you will suddenly just, “look around” while in a dream –
it will awaken you.
Definition
Time:
Advertising: Paid whining.
Acting: Whining that
normally pays better.
Telling other people
to, “Wake up!”: (Not worth making fun of).
That
which the few seek that will answer all questions
is
literally as available and out in the open as the ground itself,
but
it is as though men know it by another name, (such as, dirt),
and
their thoughts cannot make the translation & connection.
Thus
they walk the planet in search of that which men cannot avoid --
even
should they try their utmost .
Anyone
who feels a continuity with the past,
(regarding
such matters as: Zen, Yoga,
and
all other attempts to awaken)
will
never get to the bottom of things;
he
who does so turns out to ultimately have no connection to anything discernable
that has gone before -- you cannot --
for
such is the very essence of, being-asleep.
What
You Need Ponder
Regarding
Man’s Relationship To The Environment:
Men farting in the woods does not embarrass trees,
while humans will take a thundershower personally.
The same feature that makes men
say: “My mind’
is also responsible for him
being able to picture himself
as somehow separate from the
routine run of nature,
(e.g.: of him being capable
of doing
unnatural damage to the planet).
A man without the knowledge
of what life is about
is chopped into a thousand pieces
& thrown to the wind.
One
man -- in the morning, when he got out of bed --
was
already ahead, (because, you see) -- he’d get up alone.
Living in special, inner isolation is the state that
answers the special needs of the few.
One
guy describes trying to wake up as:
“Doing
neuro-surgery on yourself --
in the dark --
without a scalpel.”
Within every metaphor, parable
& allegory is plain reality --
-- trying to get out
-- wishing it could speak.
Wanting-to-awaken
is:
wanting
more from words than they have to give.
You
are getting really close when you begin to feel like you could not be any
nakeder or transparent.
To wake up is to disappear.
There
was one man who couldn’t keep his mind on his driving;
he
kept his eyes on the road & his hands on the wheel-- but,
he couldn’t keep his mind on his driving.
As
opposed to most people, one man could think of more than one thing at a
time,
unfortunately,
none of the additional ones he would pick ever did him any good.
A hundred roads are better than two only if one of them is superior to
them all.
To awaken to hot reality requires that you keep your eye always on
the one basket in which all of your eggs come & go.
Then
there was this other man -- oh, this one other man:
a
man who could not keep a promise --
the
only one that mattered --
that special one TO himself.
How better to spell & define,
“Natural” than: M
– A – N,
and how else TO
describe, The Great
Struggle than as:
Running
head-on into the front line of life’s everyday mental parade.
J
Some of you have mistaken the intent of these daily
writings;
the message is not that “waking up" is impossible,
their purpose in fact is to offer practical hints
on how to most efficiently go about it.
Re read any that you may have originally believed
were pessimistic nay saying;
read them again with a clear head,
for no discouragement regarding this marvelous, real
& alive matter will ever be found here. jan
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