“Before people ‘know’ anything,
they know what’s going on;
but once they begin to ‘know’ things
they forget what’s going on, 
and only pay attention to what they ‘know’.”
 
 
 

“Why is it those of a predominate thinking orientation who are interested in awakening,
and not simple, physical folks?”
   
 

“A man feels,
and a man talks.
How he feels has no voice,
and his voice has no feelings.
      What a curious and explosive combo.”
 
 
 
 

“To want Enlightenment is to be almost totally 
self-centered and 
relatively unconcerned about others.
    I see nothing wrong in this  --
    it is simply an objective observation.

My most profitable discovery was the realization that
life is neither harsh, nor is it not harsh,
and that the words, ‘optimist & pessimist’
are but descriptions of ---   living in the dark.”
 
 
 
 
 

“The main habit of a rabbit is rabbit.
If a rabbit could break out of the mental rabbit habit
he could become rumi.”
 
 
 
 
 

“Thoughts will personify what they don’t like.
Not liking uncontrollable drinking,
they invent, ‘The Demon Of Drink’,
not liking not existing, they invent, “you.”
 
 
 
 
 

“There is beautiful symmetry to life,
unappreciated by ordinary eyes,
wherein those who think themselves sharp are dull,
those who call themselves witty are dense,
the vain, pathetic,
would-be leaders, ass-sniffers,
those with nothing to say, verbose,
and overall a situation in which no one understanding anything
while everyone claims to understand everything.
          Simply beautiful........in its own way.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

“If you believe that you have a problem that is
outside yourself
then you have a greater problem than anything
remotely resembling, ‘yourself’
will ever be able to solve.”
 
 
 
 

“Life has built into the conscious part of man’s brain
a firewall whereby thoughts are always at least a step removed from any possible realization of themselves. (E.g.):
to protect themselves from being defrauded in their purchase of signed memorabilia 
people now insist on a, Certificate of Authenticity, signed by the person whose autograph is on the 
for sale item
attesting to the fact that 
the signature is indeed genuine.
   I at one time considered such as this to be a pure examples of men’s stupidity,
but now I see it as thoughts’ engagement in
simple self-protection.”
 
 
 
 

“There is a constant run of books, movies and articles 
about which such comments are made:
   ‘This will forever change the way we define ourselves as women’, (or men, or mothers, fathers, lovers, etc).
  How strange that a creature born to be only what it is 
feels the need to, ‘define itself’  TO itself.”
 
 
 
 

“When I am driving my car,
who is driving my car?
I am driving my car.

   When I am driving my car and asking myself:
   ‘Who is driving my car?’
    who then is asking the question?

        I feel that if I could but answer that,
         everything else would fall into place.”
 
 
 
 
 

"My first book concerning thoughts' relationship to awakening I titled:
'A Monkey In A Suit Is Still A Monkey.'
 But as my understanding of the matter clarified I renamed the work:
'A Monkey In A Monkey Suit Is Still A Monkey.'

Trying to fool the inescapable by kidding around about how
attractive it can some times look 
is a sleeper's attempt to evade the inevitablity of dreaming.

I found the first step to freedom to be in -- 
calling a thing what it is.
I discovered the ultimate move to be in not calling anything anything."
 
 
 
 
 
 

“I once heard that if you would not stare
you would Awaken.
  I worked on this for a long time,
  and then realized that the real staring took place
  inside my head –
  that my mind continually stared at its own thoughts.
  From that I now have my own more useful definition 
  of what, ‘being asleep’  is.”
 
   
 
 

“I originally thought that, “becoming Enlightened”
would have to do primarily with my behavior.
But I now realize that such concerns are for 
drowsy pre-schoolers 
who have yet to wipe the sleep from their eyes.”
 
   
 
 

“How can you ever --  possibly  --
 sail an imaginary boat on a make believe sea?!

 ….and how can you possibly not want to?”
 
 
 
 
 

Yes, many people have indeed 
said many things about that special subject.
What do you say about it?
 
 

I leave you with this comment from 
one with our interest.

“The turning point in my struggle to awaken 
came one day when it plainly hit me,
that I had no personal idea at all 
what the words, ‘being asleep’ actually meant.

From that moment on,
the entire affair from top to bottom
has taken an eye opening turn for the better.”

                                            jan
 
 
 
 
 

P.S.
Based on the mail it is time for the weekly reminder:
Any reference made to me in these writings 
is pure fiction.