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| October 10, 2000. It is a Tuesday and I am in SE Turkey
in the village of Vacuoso which claims to have been the place wherefrom
the world was first introduced to the concept of nothing. And while some
Hindu-Arab scholars would dispute this assertion, still it opens the door
on a subject that, for a man trying to clear-his-head-&-get-to-the-bottom-of-things,
must eventually become one of his all time,Top Ten favorite tunes. Ahhhh,
just the sound of its title: "Nothing." While everyone else's life is
driven by the desire for more "somethings" the few folks off on that most
private of personal escapades-to-escape have their sights set solely on
increasing the nothing in their inner lives. You might care to note that
a childish version of this appears amongst the common herd in religious-spiritual
ideas of poverty being good based on the foolish notion of material goods
being evil. Any person with reasonably well wired DNA and minimally functioning
frontal lobes recognizes this notion to be ridiculous, but it did have
a pragmatic genesis. As is the norm, the ordinary majority absorbed the
concept of "nothing" be desirable from the extraordinary few who are always
present somewhere, always engaged in that elusive endeavor to satisfy
their own head. This undertaking is often referred to as, " The Struggle
to Wake Up," "The Search For Enlightenment," or, " The Battle To Be Liberated,"
but no matter what terms are used by the self-proclaimed, albeit, incipient
chasers after such ideas, they are all, always, unwittingly after the
same, simple goal: Their head satisfied. But just look at the many, varied
and distorted twists this has taken once in the hoof-hands of the common
herd; men insist that they seek to calm their sinful, troubled "souls"
through so-called religious rituals and other assorted forms of meaningless
hocus-pocus. Then there are those who childishly consider themselves more
sophisticated than who pursue the so-called scientific paths of psychiatric
medicine in hopes of unraveling the internal knots that keep a man from
the peaceful enjoyment of his life. And they too employ comforting rituals,
and irrelevant mumbo jumbo. This is not a criticism of religion,
or psychiatry, but simply a notation of their operations as compared to
the matter always the subject here. Simply put: Everyone is dissatisfied.
To be human is to be dissatisfied -- and dissatisfied in a specific,
singular fashion. Humans' heads are dissatisfied, and this is their
uniqueness. Throughout their lives, every sentient creature’'s body
is periodically dissatisfied, which is what drives them to the various
forms of survival activities, but none save man experiences, "head dissatisfaction",
for only man has thoughts in his head. Only humans experience a
dissatisfaction that has no physical release . There is nothing a person
can physically do that will satisfy this head dissatisfaction, although
this has never stopped men from giving it the good old college try. Toward
this end they will employ sex, booze, drugs, physical danger, hypnotizing
rituals, and the all time favorite approach of getting the dissatisfaction
in your head SO caught up in trailing after descriptions of the dissatisfactions
in other people’'s heads, ( via movies, books, gossip), that you
temporarily lose awareness of your own. Paying for such momentary distraction
presently consumes a lion’'s share of people’'s income. Ordinary
men will pay big bucks on a daily basis for nothing more than to read-about,
be told-of, or to witness representations of the dissatisfaction in other
people’'s heads. From the pulpit to pulp fiction; from reading History
to inhaling Hollywood, it is all the same. And although the few longing
to "Wake up" are also troubled by the dissatisfaction in their head, they,
(once they really learn what they’'re doing), go about the task
in a totally different manner. Ordinary men in seeking to temporarily
relieve their head dissatisfaction by becoming distracted by someone else’'s
are adding TO the dissatisfactions already in their head. They do not
pay money to receive nothing. When people pay for movies, books, sermons,
access to web sites, they pay to acquire "something": representations
of other people’'s head dissatisfaction, but the few do not want
more of such "somethings"; they do not want further acquisitions in this
matter -- they want less of them. Their ultimate goal is for
-- nothing, or you could say, "nothing-ness", which might sound rhetorically
preferable to you, but, "nothing" is actually the proper instant symbol.
The common means that common people employ for temporary relief from their
head dissatisfaction is like a man whose house is uncontrollably on fire
periodically getting his mind off his troubles by going outside to watch
his neighbor’'s house burn. But my-kinda-mystic wants one
thing only: he wants his house to stop smoking & &. or him to
stop caring & &which turns out to be the same thing, if you push
on far enough to get to the REAL bottom of all this. So, as is always
my intent: let us move to the most radical verbal perspective possible
regarding this matter. Not unlike the body instinctively knows that it
must sustain itself by taking in nourishment from without itself, the
head seeks its fulfillment from outside itself, and by so predictably
doing it is constantly attempting to bring in new stuff-&-somethings.
The head/conscious mind is naturally driven to try to ADD TO itself; to
acquire new knowledge; to file away new facts, to stockpile fresh data.
It is all a constant struggle to: add-to, add-to –- gimmie something
new. The attempts by the religiously mystical to describe their version
of, "Waking up" reflect what I have just noted in that from their view
this anomalistic head-state comes about as the result of a man acquiring
the, "Knowledge of God", or of him learning the, "Secrets Of
Allah", along with numerous variations of the same theme: that for a man
to experience an enhanced, expanded and more satisfying understanding
of life he must gain something. All religions, all amateur wake-up-systems,
and all individual human heads share this natural, predictable, non injurious
belief. But from that one, specialized, anomalistically informed view-of-the-few,
it is a distracting and distorting belief. The ability to finally satisfy
the head, wake-up, get-to-the-bottom-of-things & see-through-all-this
requires not that a man add something else to his head. Waking up does
not involve acquiring something, but rather it is about losing something.
Waking up to what is really going on in life entails primarily losses,
(such as): losing the pretended belief that the non survival related
thoughts that appear in your head "mean" anything; losing the suggested
belief that the thoughts magically passing through your head "run your
life", and losing the forced delusion that the thoughts in your head are
"you". Waking up is, The Great Loss; achieving Enlightenment is, The Miraculous
Loss, and becoming Liberated is, The Mother of All Losses. Seeing this
adventure through to the end results in nothing but loss, loss, loss.
Just one exhilarating, liberating, hilarious loss after another &
& & &until you are left with nothing. Not "something"
-- just nothing.
In their heads, nobody has anything, When you "wake up", you are permitted to stop pretending &.
Jan
The head of the special clinic said: "What distinguishes our approach
to healing is the deep sense of false hope we needlessly give to all our
patients." Of paramount importance in overcoming the effects of the
ordinary, sleeping world is a complete lack of ordinary sincerity.
There is but one form of profitable poverty: No longer believing that you possess that which you do not. |
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