Cognitive Tip For Subversive Swains Of Philosophy.
The initially impressive intellects of all famous thinkers turn suddenly coy
when automatic connections peter out.
A father said to a son:
“With adequate, unnatural knowledge of what goes on naturally in your consciousness you can profit from having this pointed out: notwithstanding any material problem you may have mentally solved, there is not an idea in you that is original;
every thought you have you got from some outside source;
if it weren’t for other people you would have no ideas, no mental images, no memory, in fact; your ordinary consciousness contains nothing that you created, or discovered;
remove the ideas of others and your consciousness would be literally blank.
The reality of this is simple but nearly impossible to grasp,
in that man’s consciousness feels itself to be something apart from the ideas in it:
it is like trying to tell a bowl in which a salad of ideas is tossed,
that it is by nature an empty-bowl (consciousness with no original ideas) but for it to ponder the idea that it is empty, it must employ borrowed salad fixings (ideas) which, once they are present, seem to clearly give lie to the notion of its emptiness;
so the essential emptiness of consciousness seems to be untrue,
inasmuch as it appears to be thinking about the possibility.
It is an unteachable skill to make a ladder realize its rungs are imaginary,
when it is precisely they which make the ladder rigid and useful.”
    “Can a man ever have a thought that is actually original?”
“At moments when consciousness is aware of its own nature.”
    “Only then?”
“Only then.”
(And one chap injects: “Well, it’s nice there is at least one thing you can be certain of.”
    “Not necessarily,” muttered a guy on death row.)
One man’s motto for everything that happens in life: “There, there.”
 
 
 

As the ad kept running that proclaimed: “If you have suffered severe financial losses
in the recent wall street scandals and need to rebuild your portfolio but cannot afford any further losses, we have brand new, cutting edge investment strategies that will assure you of maximum profits while fully protecting you from any additional losses,”
one man’s consciousness finally groused:
“I sure wish people would stop making fun of me like that!”
 
 
 

Conversation.
“Only those in touch with their feelings can awaken.”
    “What does that mean?”
“Garbage dumps burn.”
 
 
 

In spite of its widespread popularity, one man only suffers lower back pain
if he bends over to think while allowing his congenital consciousness to run.
 
 
 

In routine prison life and man's second reality affairs:
only those who believe they have something to lose  --  have anything to lose.
 
 
 

You’re not faced in the right direction until the way your consciousness
automatically reacts to what it hears begins to either frighten or disgust you.
 
 
 

If a man actually fit the definition of a hero, and someone ever told him he was theirs,  his only possible response would be to tell them that they should have no hero
other than their own inner potential.
 
 
 

A Special Embezzlement.
From his certain private business, the real-deal-man sucks out all the profit.
 
 
 

Trying to awaken is trying to disable a safety mechanism
built into man’s consciousness.
 
 
 

What makes man different is that one part of his nervous system can speak;
what makes him weird is that only one part can.
(Chew and digest this and there is nothing more to look for on the table.)
 
 
 

Those who don’t know the Big Secret always think it is complex and abstruse
just because it can’t be seen or touched  –
which is the major clue-in-your-blind-face to what it is.
 
 
 

You can, with soundness and substance, veracity and validity, efficacy and authority, look upon the struggle to awaken as: an unnatural use of consciousness;
you can if you want to  –   who’s going to stop you!  –   certainly not the part of your brain you’re presently utilizing to read this
(at least we can hope that’s what you’re employing).
 
 
 

There’s a chap who never fails to get a chuckle every time he hears one
mattress manufacturer’s ad that asks: “Having trouble sleeping?”
 
 
 

One man offers this:
“If you have deep dealings with any of the affairs in man’s second reality
and you sometimes feel like you’re going crazy  –   there’s your answer!  –
so don’t sweat it  --   there is the explanation in full.”
(P.S. One guy’s theory is that the answer to everything is: How you feel about it.
He says he’s pretty sure this will never verbally catch on
although everyone tacitly lives by it.)
In prison they have a saying: “A theory a day keeps the warden away”
(though most semi reasonable jailbirds will admit they aren’t truly confident of
what it means)  --  “But then again,” notes number 2469, “in here:
being confident of anything is not really the name of the game.”
A speaker in city park shouted: “The so called spiritual men among us
who take their sport seriously  --  are a blight on the ass of humanity!”
and a passer by stopped to counter:
“But spirituality provides a quite civilizing influence on man,”
to which the speaker replied: “So do blisters and boils  –
but I don’t want them on MY brain!”
(Which moved a mole in a near by tree to muse: “B’lieve that about wraps it up.”)
 
 
 

In prison: you know your work is completed when you have joined the majority.
(And the tree tops began to softly croon:
    “Country thoughts,
      take me home,
      to that state,
      where I belong…”)
 
 
 

Lots of people say they want to see,
but not many want to look.
“Okay ma'am, here’s the facts: some things that humans do require no actual effort:
they just come natural;
then there’s some other stuff that takes mental effort to achieve.”
    “And sergeant, your point is?”
“Ma'am  –   I can’t believe that you: a living, breathing, talking human being said that.
Cuff her, frank.”
 
 

If you don't find private, irrepressible humor in being conscious of your being alive, you're not getting it yet.
 
 
 
 
 

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