10_07_01_Daily_Fresh

        JAN’S FRESH REAL NEWS
                           © 2001: Jan Cox
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THE WORLD'S REAL NEWS BUNDLED UP FOR THE WEEK
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Civilized/verbal life is a life of pretend, and the few who do not enjoy the forced game are doomed to live a life struggling there against --
…and pretending it is serious business…
…or else learning to simply lean back and enjoy the struggle.

To a fully opened eye there are no such things as optimism & pessimism;
they are but symptoms of a sight disorder.

The father told the son a story about a group of mystical teachers at a metaphysical fair who were each given a stage from which to hawk their particular path to enlightenment, and once they all had gotten well underway in their exhortations, one was found to have attracted almost everyone to his area as he shouted out nothing but: “Porno! Porno!”
then the elder asked the younger:
“And what doesn’t that tell you about everything?!”

There is so little to do in life that talk now pushes for center stage
and has taken on a previously absent, across-the-board significance
in the lives of everyday people.

From one view, you should not look upon, wanting to awaken
as a desire to flee the dream you find yourself in,
but rather realize that it was in the dream where you learned of
the idea of awaking.
Thus a warden can turn out to be an instructor of freedom.

Anyone who depends on feeling a connection to the past activities dedicated to getting-to-the-bottom-of-things -- will never do so.
A man who finally realizes what is going on will turn out to have
no connection to anything discernable that has gone on before him.

Conversation on one planet:
“What do you call that?”
“That,” and someone here asks: “How do I get there?”

Ordinary people not only do not have a clue,
ordinary people do not want a clue.

One guy asks: “What do people mean when they say:
‘Such-&-such concern is always in the-back-of-my-mind’ - ?
do they actually have some empty, available space in there?"

Historians speak at length about: “the great idea of freedom,”
but no attention is ever turned to the question:
From whence cometh the accepted concept of man not being free to begin with?! -- in other words: What is going on in your consciousness that
creates the sensation of you either being free, or not being free.

Often men are not men -- but frightened ducks,
and when stressed -- seek someone’s shoulder to quack on.

One guy mused: “As bad as we think being asleep is now,
what if it's even worse when you’re dead?!”
(Hah! And you said there is too little well grounded pessimism!)

The conscious part of the brain monitors & analyzes conditions both external and internal;
when working on external matters it is active;
when it is turned inward it becomes a passive medium for
whatever flows thru it;
only by saying, thinking “I” does it become active,
and then feels as though it indeed has an "I".
This is why ordinary people so enjoy talking about themselves,
and having the occasion to frequently say the word, "I".
With a few, this is also the basis of them wanting to be "fully-awake"
and thus have consciousness always in the active mode.

Psychology is not man-&-thought’s endeavor to explain human behavior, but is an attempt to make thought’s activity seem logical,
or at least explainable;
the psychiatric arts were not conceived of as an effort to cure irrationality which thoughts might display,
but rather to make such intrinsic irrationality begin to sound somehow -- understandable --
that some forgotten past incident is causing these present,
irrational thoughts;
it tries to make ordinary thoughts' omnipresent irrationality
seem to have a rational basis.

Consider the implications of this scene to your own head life:
A woman thoughtfully detailing the reasons she decided
not to have children --
when it was her hormones which made the decision and has now left it to her neurons to come up with verbal, illusionary reasons.

The same feature of man that makes him say: “My mind"
is responsible for him picturing & talking about himself as something that is somehow separate from nature, (viz):
notions taken seriously of him doing unnatural damage to the planet.

                                                The Final Freedom:
                                            Realizing that non sense,
                   no matter how dressed, re-dressed and re-dressed again,
                                                   is still nonsense.

Compare the life you lead in your thoughts to the one you live physically;
look at your physical life with the sound off and compare it with
your thought life -- and note the lack of similarity.