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THE
ELEPHANT IN A FLEA’S EAR
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You
have not begun to appreciate the full simplicity of it all until
--
one
day it suddenly strikes you that even what you already realize
is
too simple to actually think about.
You
have to (as it were) -- think-your-way
to the realization
(more accurately:
right up to the edge of it);
there
is no other way;
no
physical, emotional, or devotional tricks will do,
(although such
can be thinking-efforts in disguise),
but
all thinking about any intangible, inner-reality-only matter (which
the realization be), complicates it –
that
is the mind’s sole motivation for reflecting on these vaporous affairs:
to
make them seem to it, increasingly complicated
for
in so doing it adds to the mind’s sensation of their substantive existence,
(e.g. godsand
their stories started out pretty simple, but look at them now).
So
for even the certain man to ever feel he has begun making some worthwhile
effort in pursuit of the realization of what is really going on in life
--
just
behind the obvious façade of what the collective take it to be
--
he
must think about it, and moreoever: struggle relentlessly to find ways
of thinking about it that are meaningfully to him, yet different from the
thinking of
the
ordinary people of the world who clearly do not share his interest.
If
his birthright includes this anomalous intrigue,
he
should have the potential for eventually turning out in his own brain,
unconventional,
but useful original thinking about man’s intangible inner reality;
it
is this private endeavor that will see him through the
valley-of-the-shadow-of-idiocy,
the mental house of mirrors wherein:
This
time (ranging [non statistically] from thirty years to thirty lifetimes
[for fans of
such multiple grabs-at-the-ring notions]) is for the certain
man,
one
of extraordinary secret fun & excitement --
as
he alone (so far as he knows with absolute certainty),
with
his loosey-goosey mental eyes & fingers, unravels an endless,
deeper reality
to
what is going on in life than the rest of world displays having a clue
to,
and
for years does it pragmatically, and experientially seem to him that he
is incrementally learning the truth about everything, one peice at a time,
which
undoubtedly is leading to his ultimate understanding of the complete picture.
This
thinking -- no matter in whom it occurs, and regardless its
verbal specifics,
and
no matter how necessary it be and how close it takes you to the realization
--
neither
this thinking nor any other will get you over & past the edge,
and
into the heart of the all consuming, full realization –
its
totally unexpected nature slips up on you before you have the time,
or
mental wherewithal to validly suspect what is going on and about to happen
--
if
you persevere (and salutary planetary alignment and good karma be
with you).
As
nut-city as it can sound to unshaken urban squirrels:
if
you still believe you are thinking about what you have uncovered, and now
see --
--
you do not have the whole picture;
if
you can acceptably still think about the things you now privately &
definitely know -- -- you do not yet get it.
The
full realization of what is going on is too simple for the mind to think
about,
and
you do not have it until you realize this for yourself.
J
Yes, it can
sound to be -- and may be -- something awfully close
to, impossible,
but do not
discount the unencumbered recognition of the, impossible --
JAN'S DAILY REAL NEWS
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