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                                                The City & The Plains:
 
 

The mental City is surrounded by open Plains,
which by nature are forbidden to most men,
and most men are not directly aware of its existence.
By birth they feel that TheCity in their mind is not only
their home and where they should be, but is also the only place there is.

A few people feel a certain hard-to-classify call  --  it is that of the neural OpenPlains:
a place in  the brain that is outside the normal city limits of human consciousness.
 
                           Even though everyone is born in TheCity  --
                                                 the few’s real home is else where.
 
 
 
 

TheCity is a place of story telling & dreaming:
of weaving tales about the stars;
ThePlains is where you look directly at the heavens.
 

TheCity is a place of problem solving;
ThePlains is a place with no problems.
 

TheCity is where you mentally do life’s bidding;
ThePlains is a place free of such conscription.
 

TheCity is a place of nervous and jumpy eyes;
ThePlains a land of steady gaze and stable sight.
 

TheCity is where no one ever shuts up;
on ThePlains no one ever thinks to speak.
 

TheCity is where men continually over eat;
on ThePlains, men and minds are lean.
 

TheCity is a place both literal and symbolic,
and the more is your life based in TheCity the more real it be.
Men make their own City and TheCity, its own men;
CityLife sustains itself on CityLife;
out on ThePlains you can survive on nothing but air.
 

The purpose of CityLife is to gradually make you more efficient;
PlainsExistence does it instantly.
 

TheCity is smoggy;  naught but clean air on ThePlains;
TheCity is din-on-the-hoof;
ThePlains so silent no one ever asks: “What’d you say?”
 

TheCity is a place of meaningless concepts, such as:
“This is good, but that other is evil.     This is true, that false”  --
ThePlains is the perspective from which such inanities are seen for what they are.
 

TheCity is a place of extremes: it is either too hot, or too cold;
too bright or too dark; too quiet or too loud; too fast or too slow;
out on ThePlains everything is all the time  --  just right  –  so right in fact that
any thought to the contrary is unheard of.
 

Torah, Tora & Symbolic Locations:
TheCity was the inspiration for the story of Babel;
the place Adam ended up, post Eden;
ThePlains is where Noah came to rest.
 

Once you have been on ThePlains you have a PlainsMind in addition to
your old, original CityMind, and the distance & difference between the two becomes
the most important matter in your life.
 

In TheCity everyone is constantly at everyone else’s mental throat;
on ThePlains all is peaceful  --  it has to be  --  there is no one there but you.
 

TheCity is a place of much discrimination but little taste;
ThePlains has a culture so refined that it is not even noticed.
 

In TheCity everyone constantly talks about their self,
whereas on ThePlains people hardly have one.
 

In TheCity rats are always in the grain;
PlainsFood is bullet proof.

The Busy City & The Quiet Plains:
Life in TheCity is all t. and  no p.  --   all talking and no permanency;
but out on ThePlains it is quiet, with no sensation of time.
CityLife by nature is impermanent;
life on ThePlains knows nothing of permanency and impermanency,
and lacks even interest therein.

Awakening does not produce quiet but quiet produces awakening;
quiet does not produce awakening, but awakening produces quiet,
and only those out of TheCity and on ThePlains
can fathom such a paradox and conundrum.
 

In TheCity things move at the speed of present awareness;
on ThePlains you can fast-forward real time radio & tv broadcasts.
                             "Get it over with!” (if not): “Get to the good stuff!”
 
 

                                       TheCity is the original Land Of Nod;
                                       ThePlains the place all dreams go to die.

 
                                                            J
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The most abiding thought in TheCity is: “Life is a problem”  --
PlainsThought does not take threats  --   it takes the life out of them.