(A kind of continuation of 5/6/02)
 

One of the most expedient, eye opening tricks a man can utilize in
trying to get-to-the-bottom-of-everything
is in his speech, to not provide others with anything to passionately react to.
To do this requires the same kind of attention needed to lie:

In this method your intent is to never say anything to anyone that will
give them any reason to verbally react with any passion.
In practice what this amounts to is that you never say anything to anyone that might upset or offend them;
no matter how outrageous your mechanical thoughts may have deemed what they said, you lie --
you consciously refrain from allowing your mind to make your tongue express its negative response to what theirs said  --  and instead,
                            you say something totally innocuous.
 

This has nothing to do with concern for their feelings --  it is strictly for your benefit,
and the few who may actually pursue this will soon surely realize its profit
for themselves without extensive elaboration here.
(This is certainly not for those who enjoy criticizing and upsetting others.)
 
 

Bickering and bantering, from simmering to boiling degrees,
is what cooks the verbal/intellectual fare of ordinary man,
and other than for the odd bloody nose  --  does no notable harm;
what greater fun do most men have with their mind and tongue than, socially arguing;
over sports, politics, the prices of things, and other people’s reputations,
and when a friend or even a stranger makes a judgmental statement about a ball team,
a political party, or whatever, you are expected to reply in kind,
either agreeing or disagreeing with what he said;
this is what turns the collective wheel of routine, recreational human conversation,
and in large part, civilization itself.
This harmless, rapid-fire squabbling over trifles also serves another purpose:
it keeps men talking at such a rate, with such meaningless passion
that there is slim opportunity for a person to take note of the fact that
the entire process proceeds automatically and independently from them personally.

Plain put: if you are passionately arguing with someone about anything,
you will have no awareness whatever of what is actually going on in
your consciousness,  which ordinary men are told to call, thinking,
and you accept the thoughts that suddenly appear in your mind as being yours,
and the words they lead your tongue to say --
true expressions of your personal understanding;
but if your overriding desire in life is to grasp what is actually going on,
rather than arguing about it,
then nothing is more in order than removal of yourself from this depleting pastime.
 

If someone has momentarily engaged you in conversation,
and they utter an attack on some other person or group, then await your response,
in a totally innocent tone, say something innocuous enough to not cause a
passionate reaction in any normal person:
(“Yeah, life is weird.” --  “Humans do strange things” – “It takes all kinds,” etc;  what is literally said is irrelevant);

Keep your focus on you, remembering that what you are doing
has nothing to do with the person you are talking  to  --   nothing;
for your own benefit and learning, what you want to do is always say to other people
only something to which they will not be able to passionately react,
and as you are so engaged, continue to keep your mental eye scrupulously on
what is going on in your own head, and this pinpoint view will soon, of its own accord, expand to include the nature of entire scenario of you and the other person
in your verbal dance, and soon to everything.

You may be assured of the fact, (and it is easily verified by your instant recollection of your success thus far in achieving a liberation of your consciousness),
that you can never see, or understand anything new while arguing, (either with others, or with your own apparent self, but today’s news concerns the others-connection).
Arguing, or agreeing with someone else’s arguing, has the same result, that is,
if someone denounces another person or group and you offer passionate agreement with their censure,
you are now arguing with the non present person or group he just denounced.

All arguments, squabbles, and bickering, (about second reality matters,
as always in reference here), come from man’s common mind --
not from yours or anyone else’s:
human mouths are simply loudspeakers for this collective, impersonal mind,
and what is normally said has no more individual significance to the human who says it than do the airborne words picked up by your tuner have to do with the
passive speakers in your stereo through which you hear them.
The withdrawing of your mouth from this engagement will, (for the interested few), bring into stark relief the unadorned picture of just what is going on constantly in
man’s second reality, about which life makes ordinary men at least  --  feign ignorance,
but make it your unfailing art to always think about what you are going to say
before you say it,
and all that is necessary is that you remember this is your intention,
and it quickly starts to take care of itself;
you soon do not have to specifically, think about and plot out the exact words you are going to give in response to the other person’s incendiary comment --
your proper, untouchable one will begin to naturally flow from your lips
as your mind secretly savors the deliciousness of the whole situation.
The other ordinary human with whom you are speaking believes he is, “telling-it-like-it-is”  --  expressing truthfully what he thinks of this or that person,
group, or idea  --  which, in objective reality, is a lie,
for it was not his thoughts that originated the opinion his mouth now expresses;
then you, on the other hand,
by refraining from being simply a passive mouthpiece for the impersonal,
collective mind of man, which was totally responsible for what he just said,
come closest to uttering anything deserving to be thought of as, the truth,
inasmuch as you at least did not, (as did the other person), say: “Well I think so & so”
when in plain fact he did not; the thought simply appeared in his mind,
and it instantly caused his tongue to say it, and that is the total extent of what occurred.
 

The real benefits of doing this, until it takes no real effort to do so,
cannot be adequately limned, and for the few who might reap its fruit,
none should be necessary after they first hear about it;
its potential will either strike you or not, (like most everything else about TheGreatAdventure, once you get deep enough in it), so    --   there it is,
and it cannot be too highly recommended;
doing it will bring quickly into unavoidable relief heretofore unnoticed corners,
and edges to how human minds dance in complete, preprogrammed coordination with one another;
in conversation, first one leads while the other follows;
then they reverse positions; then back again, over and over  --  all over the planet;
the human verbal dance going actually no where  --   as no dances do;
dances are entertainments  --   not modes of travel,
yet none save those who secretly step aside ever fully realize the
totality of this world wide imaginary ballroom;
when you are in it  --  you cannot tell where you are;
quit dancing by not saying anything to anyone to which they can passionately react, and you will soon get an electrifying, wake up shock.