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In a place infrequently visited is a guy called the:
Those
few who find they have been born,
ingenerate
devotees of getting-to-the-bottom-of-all-this-stuff,
inherently
conceive of its goal as a bit of normally unknown information;
a
radical fact at the bottom of everything which will conclusively explain
everything.
Few
of the original few get far beyond this starting line since nothing is
more natural
tothe
mind than the perception that the answer to a question is
an answer;
that
what will explain everything will be a piece of explanatory information.
This
is how the human mind naturally and normally operates under natural and
normal conditions, and thereby producing the outstanding results you witness
in
the physical world all around you every day,
but
surprisingly outside rational expectations lies
what
is actually at the bottom of all things mentally,
and
the one ultimate answer to all human questions (to wit):
This
phrase falls not favorably on the early ears of novice seekers –
and
why should it?! -- what the hell specifically does it tell
you?! --
you
want answers -- not someone telling you that even when you discover
an initially satisfying answer: There
Is Always More To It.
It
portends a scenario of trying to reach Point X -- and
when you apparently do,
you
are told that, No, the Real Point X -- the one you
want is on further on,
and
when you get to another seeming, proper destination,
are
again informed that the actual Point X is even beyond that one, ad infiniti-teedium.
“Well
-- Phooey on that!” say many when presented with such a path,
and
thus do few ever go visit the: There
Is Always More To It
man.
He
obviously understands the approach's brutality and limited appeal
as
evidenced by his never having it expanded into a multi media,
info-commercial-friendly,
complex course of life long study (in 4 easy payments);
he
clearly realizes that his method cannot be directly taught,
that
for it to ever become a useful tool in a person’s investigation of all
things mental, they must come upon it for themselves,
which
they can only do by never ceasing their inquiry into this curious case;
by
refusing to stop at any point -- even when they may feel they have
surely reached the final one: their mind becomes settled compared
to what it has been for many years, but mere aging will accomplish that,
(my mentally liver-spotted friends).
A
way of ChasingTheThing
that has no superior is the:
There Is Always More To It approach
-- (it can eat the lunches of all others),
but
minds with inadequate, independent experience in the expedition
are
scarce prepared by their natural neural talents to pick up on it,
and
realize not only its singular potency, but to unknowingly recognize an
aroma
about
it that says it is a door to a kitchen -- THE door --
slap-dab in front of the kitchen wherein all things mental are being cooked.
If for some accidental reason, you were born, one of the few,
The
unrealized use of formalized Systems/Schools devoted to
changing
a man’s consciousness so that his mind can get-to-the-bottom-of-things
is
that they provide an illusion needed initially by those with the hunger
for it:
a
picture that -- promises-the-possibility-of-finality,
in
that if you study the School’s history/heroes/ /teachings/rituals, etc
long
and seriously enough --
a
day will arrive when you will finally be fully knowledgeable and expert
in
all
of its many facets --
which
will be the day when you will finally understand everything.
This
is simply how the human mind normally works;
to
undertake a project -- the mind must perceive a mentally comprehensible,
(which
is to say, verbalizable), goal,
(let
us call the goal by its ancient & honorable title: to Wake-up:
to
arouse one’s mind from man’s routine dream),
and
the mind must find what seems to be an appropriate vehicle or method
to
reach the goal -- thus the mind creates the various Schools For
Awakening
with
their overwhelming multitude of texts, impossible disciplines, and arcane
rituals,
and
then having these, men & their minds see the obviously direct path
to
the goal of Waking-up the
mind and seeing to the bottom of things
as
being a dutiful follower of such a School and its teachings.
“I
will become a student of System C, and when I know everything there
is
to know about System C and what it knows -- I will then know all:
I
will know everything that I want to know”
--
which
sounds nothing but true and rational -- but which is
not:
the
day never comes when you know everything that System C has to teach,
for
your very study of its ideas have, without you realizing it, added
to it and always will (The Floating City Of Junk, for readers who have
already forgotten yesterday’s News).
It
is the kind of wild-duck-dream on which ordinary minds depend;
the
mind must have impossible, totally illusionary goals or no sane
human
would
get up every morning and go to a regimentalized job -- for
mere money.
All
truly civilized, non-mystically-inclined human beings are chasing illusionary
goals -- civilization is based on it, (obviously: no
problem here),
but
also do the few commence their GreatUndertaking
by pursuing the incorrect end:
their
mind naturally tells them to become a student of
this
or that school of enlightenment/awakening/liberation,
and
initially, there is no alternative,
but
it is, to say the least -- uncomely
to
see a forty year old man sitting in a third grade classroom;
only
the minds of undergraduate students believe there is: An
Answer –
A Fact
beyond which there is no other:
such
minds have not actually even gotten started in the real study – which is
the mind, or they could not still think that.
No
matter how it certainly and sanely appears otherwise:
a
man who sincerely studies School M or System C for the purpose of,
(whatever
the particular school may call it):
Waking
up, achieving Enlightenment, becoming Liberated,
is
not at the molecular, mental level so motivated:
And
if you ever get foot on this straight shot to goal -- and stop!
–
--
you have blown the whole thing.
Even
though technically, the phrase -- There
Is Always More To It --
does
not totally spell out the matter,
the
matter is
just right beyond it -- and indeed-deed-e-o,
Consider:
if it is true, (which it is), that no matter what you discover
in
your pursuit of that SpecialGoal
-- There
Is Always More To It
--
what
normally, humanly-unrealized, simple and obvious fact
is
being waved in your mind’s face -- by the
human mind?!
So
-- while there is more to it than merely realizing that:
There
Is Always More To It –
you
will never know what it is until you realize that.
"Take off just a bit around the edges." -- "Edges? -- what edges?!"
Why
not visit he of the: There
Is Always More To It
fame..............he is near by..............he is in your brain.
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