JAN’S DAILY FRESH NEWS

                      © 2001: Jan Cox
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August 21, 2001.
 

              THE FATHER & SON LAY SOME BRICK
                    ________________________
 
 
 
 

In that a whole day had passed since their last fab gest,
and since the son’s head was still on the top of his body,
the pater to the pod proffered:
”Seeing that you not only survived my comments of yesterday,
but have brought yourself again into my presence,
I will assume you are ready for more  --  and more I shall pour.
I am going to expand the fact I previously presented:
                   The mind has no memory of itself & what it does,
to its more comprehensive stage, (to wit):
                    consciousness is not conscious of itself.
 
 

From any routine, sane perspective,
if the first statement is bizarre,
the second is completely off the weird meter;
consciousness by definition, ‘being aware’ --
and of what more would consciousness BE aware than of itself?
Any ordinary mind will say it is impossible for consciousness NOT to be conscious of itself, but, ah! -- it is, and just like the first statement regarding mind’s 
lack of memory about itself from yesterday,
today’s fact is another instance of an indisputable reality, which, 
when put into words that make linguistic sense,
                                   is both true and not true -- simultaneously.
 
 
 

Consciousness is not conscious of itself until it is told this --
then it IS conscious of itself, and the statement is not true --
-- for a few seconds  --  until it forgets it  --
then it returns to not being conscious of itself,
and the statement is true again.
 
 

This is not metaphysical mumbo jumbo, nor verbal hocus pocus --
it sounds insane & impossible at first hearing,
but its reality is ever present in your own head,
just waiting to be seen  --   and when it is:
you will know something radical about the nature of man
that few people who have ever walked this planet have known,
(you will certainly be cognizant of something vital that schooled experts
in Psychology, Neurology & Psychiatry have no hint of).
 
 

The agitation that drives the few such as we into the exploits of: 
Trying to Wake Up, or, Achieve Enlightenment,
comes directly from the fact that:
                    consciousness is not conscious of itself,
and all of the standard methods which supposedly
lead to awakening & enlightenment (‘Being Mindful;
Self-Remembering; Being Focused;  Living In The Moment)
are all unrealized reactions to this unrecognized fact.
Being Asleep & Unenlightened  is simply the condition of:
                     consciousness not being conscious of itself.
 
 
 

That consciousness is not conscious of itself
cannot be proven to ordinary consciousness,
for as soon as it hears this said,
consciousness does become momentarily conscious of itself,
and the statement is not true.
 
 

Of all the tricky things you need to see  –  this is the trickiest;
consciousness is like a greased, rapidly spinning pole,
poking up through the brain to which nothing will stick:
thoughts will not stick to it,
which is why the mind has no memory of itself & what it does,
and on a larger scale this picture can be useful in trying to
see and understand the fact that:
                    consciousness is not conscious of itself.
 
 

When you are in man’s routine state of consciousness,
(and remember that we are speaking of mental consciousness,
and not of the body’s consciousness, nor of mental consciousness' memories
of things that the body has experienced, but only of mental consciousness' awareness of things mental, including itself), which is:
distracted, non specific, fragmented, always drifting into past & future tenses,
your state has no consciousness of its state,  or of what it is doing,
which is why your you/your mind/your consciousness
can never remember what it has been doing.
You and everyone else may be clinically, ‘conscious’
(your eyes are open; you react to changes in the environment;
you respond to your name)
but the few are born inherently wired to find this state,
which is acceptable to everyone else  --  unsatisfactory ---
but most of them never personally struggle to understand
the why’s & wherefores  --  the nuts & bolts of their discontent,
and instead, adopt whatever metaphysical tomfoolery is handy.
 
 

Studying other men’s proclaimed, explanations of consciousness
will never make you understand consciousness;
it does not matter how long you study, nor how sincerely –
you cannot see what is going on in the pages of a book,
or in the words of another human --
you can only see it for yourself --  IN yourself,
(and more specifically)  --  in your consciousness --  which,
(by nature) --
is not programmed to BE conscious of its self & its operations.
Trying to, Wake Up, or Become Enlightened  
is simply a struggle to overcome this programming & alter the situation in you.
Instead of saying/thinking: ‘I want to Wake Up’
it would be more accurate & to the point to say:
‘I want to be conscious of my consciousness’ ---
….’course if you want to be even more precise, it should go:
’My consciousness wants to be conscious of itself’ --  but
that makes even less sense (does it not?!)
than everything I have said today,  put together.
 

How can your consciousness even know that it is not conscious of itself
without BEING conscious of itself, (that is),
without being conscious of its true condition, which is that:
it is not conscious of itself --
but if it was conscious of this fact,
then being so would then MAKE it conscious of its self and its condition.  
Whoa, Buckshot!
(And you still wonder some times why more people are not interested in this.)
 
 

If you are ever going to actually grow up, and get a personal grip on this
you have got to let go and pass beyond all of the explanations, teachings, plans, methods, notions, theories & ideas about it
that you have ever heard of, and start to look solely at your own
consciousness and workings of the mind,
and I have given you a fact that is an operational short cut
that can take years off of your undergraduate studies,
and shoot you straight to the doctoral level, (the fact that):
                  consciousness is not conscious of itself.

Scrutinize, dissect and stay on this case ‘til
blood oozes from your forehead & you squint yourself near blind;
do not talk to anyone else about it, and in fact,
do not even say to yourself in detail, what you are doing;
permit yourself to think only these six words:
                    consciousness is not conscious of itself --

 
                     and what flows from there  --   let flow from there.
 
 
 
 
 

My son, I would not mislead you --
it is not even possible for me to do so,
and I tell you that every single secret men have dreamed of;
everything that every man has ever realized in his
personal experience of Enlightenment & Awakening  --  plus 
everything that you are looking for 
is standing mere millimeters behind these words:
                    consciousness is not conscious of itself.
 

                Push just beyond the words, and  --  Presto! --  there it is:
                                     everything you want to know.

                                             Happy Tuesday, kid.”
 

                                                        J
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Trying persistently to wake up without understanding the nature of consciousness
is like buying something indelibly marked with a sale price,
then when it is regular price again,
tricking the store by slipping it back in,
and getting it at the discounted price for a second time,
(and a third, and a fourth, and so on, throughout your life).                          Slick, huh?!