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One
guy says: “Man! am I getting sick and tired of being tired of stuff
--
but
what I am really getting sick of is me saying such things,
and
then trying to back out of them.
No I’m not!
Yes
you are!
No I'm not -- you're
taking it all wrong.
Okay
-- just calm down.
......................................................................I’m
all right now.”
There
is a certain most significant thing, indeed, one crucial to men’s lives,
about
which they speak constantly -- but never directly;
they
talk about it all the time, but always calling by it by other names
-- never its own.
.......................................(Okay,
now you can ask: "Why?" -- but you have to provide the answer.)
The
problem is that normally, all thoughts are outsider's-thoughts;
mental
enlightenment is discovering how to create thoughts that are
more-or-less,
damn near original with you.
One
father told a son: “Be sincere about what you eat -- but nothing
else.”
No
one knows anything about the mind, and those who say they do,
do not know anything.
The
inner lives of ordinary men are so uninteresting that they have to get
loud,
and
wave their hands around whenever they talk about themselves.
One
man wants it known: “I am not this ordinary by choice -- life made
me this way.”
A father handed a son this list of tricks to help him realize the family aim:
"Imagine someone is watching everything you do.
Imagine
that no one in the entire universe has the slightest interest in
anything you do
Picture a mirror image of you always before you, (never look in its eyes).
Imagine
that someone is hearing everything you think,
and may question you about it later;
don’t ponder your possible replies -- just be so aware.
Constantly
try to hear what might be going on just behind the sound of
your own thoughts' voice in your head.
Always
look just beyond what you appear to be looking at,
just over the top of the person’s head you are talking/listening to.
Whenever
alone -- sing -- non stop,
and
when not singing -- laugh -- never stopping;
either
of the two will keep you from sleep."
When you really get good at this -- you can lie down with fleas and get up with dogs.
..................................................................................(“Ah,
Ethel – it was worth all the effort!")
The
mind of a man who was getting somewhere in hisGreatInvestigation,
one
day said to him: “Anything you believe you have discovered
disadvantageous
to me, was obtained illegally and cannot be used against me.”
...... (“Don’t
you wish,” he muttered.)
While admitting no specific wrong doing, one man’s mind settled with him
out of court.
Fault
finders & critics are blind children with pea shooters;
only
how-things-are
has real guns -- only life can do actual damage.
One
man opines that god has a special punishment for those who could have awakened
but didn’t:
after
death they will be locked in a room full of ordinary people
who
will talk about themselves for ever and ever.
All
of man's inner reality is propaganda;
mind's
advertising the greatness of itself.
A
father said to a son:
“Unwavering
consistency is the sure sign of an awakened mind.
I
am aware that you think I said otherwise a few months back……..
..............and
I just wanted to set this straight….…..........okay?!”
There
is a whole other way to look at the idea of being
distracted,
asleep and unenlightened:
based
on certain neurological findings, (to more or less wit):
when
the prefrontal cortex, (the seat of conscious thought), is super active
activity
in the superior parietal lobe,
(the
area responsible for orienting your body spatially), decreases,
which
has led one chap to say, any time he stumbles or bumps into something:
“It
just shows how intellectually alert and awake I am!”
The way to force your mind into real thinking is the same way best to rob a bank: go in disguised as money.
One
man submits:
“Anyone
who says what is going on does not know what is going on,
and
whenever I say I do -- I momentarily do not.”
(His invisible
twin later noted:
“If it weren’t
for talk, there’d be quiet……among other things.”
[His
unborn cousin after that observed:
“In
fact if it were not for talk, men would really have nothing to do
but wake up from the distraction.”])
A
man who is your true friend would, if necessary,
kidnap
you and force you on vacation;
how
much less should a man’s mind do for him?
One
fellow says that ideas about enlightenment do not interest him all that
much, it’s just that all the other ideas of men are so boring.
A
father said to a son: “Not only can you not say for certain
how
many people in the past woke up fully to what is going on,
but
it is also impossible to tell what they did with it if they did.”
Only sleepers have a shadow --- only pretenders, a past.
Those
who do not fully know what is going on
are
wont to act secretive and weird about what little they do know.
More
direction from one father: “In ChasingTheThing
my boy,always remember:
the
nearest path is the best path.”
J
When
you do not know fully what is going on
you
want to tell others what you do know, (even perhaps
believing that you do know it all),
but
when you do know it all,
you
have no interest in saying anything to anyone about it.
How
do you explain that.