Sunday Sept 2

You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   whatever you’re doing doesn’t satisfy you, (that is):
   if you were meant to be doin'TheThing.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   you are never at home when you are.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   you are never home when you really need you,
   (the saving grace being that since you are never home when
   you are anyway -- it doesn’t make any difference.)
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or: you some times do not fully
   understand what is going on around you.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or: you sometimes do not
   understand at all what is going on in you.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or: even after you wake up in the
   morning, you never do get Completely awake.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   someone keeps talking to you --   pretending to be you.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   you keep listening to the talk -- pretending to take it seriously.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   pretending & the real thing are about the same to you --   so:
   you end up actually taking the talk seriously.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
    the years of heartache can be heard reflected in your voice.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   you’ll actually suffer years of heartache.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or: you don't know who you are....except for a name.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   you’re standing on one foot while always looking at the other one.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   every time you’re asked a question -- you answer.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   other people often do not -- act-right.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   other people often accuse you of not -- acting-right.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or: everyone's an idiot.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or: you’re an idiot.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   your dog’s always out of the yard, but -- the cat's never out of the bag.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or: there is never enough time.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or: there is too much dead time.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   you have no one to tell your deepest fears to.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   you actually Want someone to tell ‘em to.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   you don't know where you are.....except spatially.....and even that is often sketchy.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   you're never fully confident what is funny & what is not.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or: you're trying to shoot hoops on a jai alai court.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or: every time your name is called -- you turn.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or else
   you are eating too much or too little -- of everything.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   you're all the time pleading guilty to crimes no one's committed.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or: you don't know anything's real name.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or:
   you’re not watching what you’re doing -- not the you that
   later thinks: “I wasn’t watching what I was doing.”
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or: you're trying to gang up on yourself.
You’re either doin’TheThing -- or: your room is full of bums --
   you’re either doin’TheThing, or you ARE a bum, and deserved to be ganged up on.

The 3 Great Truths in life are: shovel, sword, stomach.
The 3 Great Stupidities: Huh? What? and, You-can’t-be-serious!
One man says: “I am a cogitation archeologist:
I want to know where thought comes from.”
If the obvious disappoints you -- take a nap;
if the obvious confuses you -- duck;
if the obvious surprises you -- run for cover.
One guy would only let in impending thoughts who would preface
whatever it was that they were going to say with:
”Understand that this is not for attribution…”
If we are in prison then our chains are where
consciousness meets thought.
“I would be liberated was not my mind continually dragged through the streets of
a far-away place.”
The best gift you can give yourself is to, every ten years or so,
explore seriously the possibility that your understanding of everything is wrong or slightly off kilter.
As you consider the wide world of man’s mind & culture,
here’s all you need remember: every word is different from
other words -- but --------------------- they’re all just WORDS.

Minds, Ice & Enlightened Minds: Without ordinary mind --
no enlightened mind; without ice, even worse -- no margaritas.

Teachings are like boats,
but once you reach the other shore, you need a car.

Everything has its own nature: a tree is a tree; a cloud is a cloud,
and a creature that talks is a poisonous tick.

An unenlightened man is like the child of a rich house
who has strayed away & lives among the poor -- who will eventually --
-- eat his lunch & leave him in a ditch.

One man’s in-home approach to doin’TheThing he calls:
”Okay -- clear the room!”
As entertaining as it may be: satire comes into existence
only when people cannot comprehend & tolerate the reality of something.

Every morning one man would stand before a mirror & declare:
“I am not just an animal: I am not just an animal”
and his reflection would reply: “Right! You are just a poor sap;
you are just a dumb shit.”

Almost every time one man would attempt to peer into the goings on in his
brain, he’d end up remarking: “Cells make me sick!”

Every morning one man would stand before a mirror & declare:
“I am not just an animal: I am not just an animal”
followed by:
“And I am not just a mind saying this!”

See -- here’s the thing about it:
you can think anything you want to -- BUT --
you don’t wanna do that.

See -- here’s the thing about it:
you can think anything you want to -- BUT --
you gotta know what you’re doing.

See -- here’s the thing about it:
you can think anything you want to -- BUT --
it ain’t gonna do you any good…..in the long haul.

See -- here’s the thing about it:
you can think anything you want to -- BUT --
it’ll never get the job you want done, done.

See -- here’s the thing about it:
you can think anything you want to -- BUT --
it’s not the same as doing what you’re thinking about.

Perhaps the trickiest feature of all to ever understand is that:
being right & being wrong are not two different, separate things,
(any more than are up & down);
not even different are things which accomplish something,
and things which only mean something --
not as long as you remain bamboozled into mistaking the latter for the former --
which constructively is the inoculation against ever even accidentally --
doin’TheThing.

                    There is that which accomplishes something,
                        and that which only means something,
                        and that which only means something –
                                              means nothing.

*Also present were: Pops & Schnapps, Zoot & Zima;
Scarlatti & Smirnoff, Armadas & Amaretto.