I sit today in a cafe in one half of the erstwhile capitol of Hungry, 
the former city of Budapest,
now the twin metropolises of Buda, and Pest. 
Separated only by the Danube, 
the citizens of both locales freely mix and mingle, 
and may spend as much time in one place as the other.
Not surprisingly, (or else I would not be here),
these most ample and fleshy circumstances 
have been viciously leapt on by my ever voracious mind,
and instantly bit to the bone of their relevance
vis a vis the interest of these news reports in the matter of 
a man’s radical shift in consciousness.
(Pardon me, I was momentarily overcome by 
poetic fumes left over from the glory days of 
the area’s literary ancien regime.) 

I will not be speaking however about the twin cities of Buda and Pest, 
where many Hungarians spend part of their lives,
but about Doing and Thinking –
the dual activities in which all men spend 
all of their lives.

Man lives by Doing and by Thinking,
and while Doing is essential to physical survival,
Thinking is not.
A man could survive solely by Doing if he were 
removed from an environment wherein Thinking had
become an integral part of everyday life.
 

     So: Doing is essential --  Thinking is not.

Actual survival is in Doing,
while Thinking is either:
Thinking about essential, survival-related Doing,
or is Thinking about activities that are merely entertaining to Thinking, 
which are all of its own invention.
 

Thinking’s primary responsibility is to assist Doing
in matters of survival,
but Thinking can also interfere with essential Doing,
(such as in, “being some where else”
while Doing is engaged in affairs requiring its assistance.)

  Thus: Though playful by nature --
           Thinking has serious responsibilities.

Doing is instinctive,
while Thinking is second-generation instinctive,
and often appears to be as much influenced by
the external, man-made cultural environment as by the internal physiological one,
(do note that the key term here is, “appears to be.”)

But Thinking is instinctive, 
(even though a step removed from its origin), 
in that its nourishment and direction are from the same source that
drives instinctive Doing.

So it is that all men Do and all men Think,
and if they are asked to think about the matter
their thoughts tell them that the two activities
are quite separate and distinct --
   and as always, (with ordinary men),
they are both correct and not so.

When Doing and Thinking are seen by ordinary minds
as “separate activities”,
they are seen as too separate,
and when Doing and Thinking are not seen as
separate activities,
their distinctness is overlooked.

A man trying to gain personal possession of 
the main bridge between Buda and Pest,
a man trying desperately to,
get-to-the-bottom-of-this-post-war-intrigue,
can live neither exclusively in Doing,
nor in Thinking  -- 
NOR CAN HE BE
confused about the individual natures of 
the two places,
nor about their inseparable connection, AND THE
indivisibility of the Hungarian republic.

Here’s how it goes:
Doing doesn’t think about what it does,
and Thinking can’t “do” anything;
it can only think OF things to do, 
and then try to get hands and backs to 
DO the Doing for it.

Doing does not and cannot think about what it
instinctively does,
and Thinking cannot do anything but think,
and while they operationally they may seem to be their own man,
they are siamese twins of a common mother.
They are your left and right foot;
they are the twin wolves at the side of Odin,
the two dogs in your own yard of consciousness;
the steady, reliable one who is always 
Doing his duty to protect you,
and the one who can help guard you with his
Thinking, but who is most of the time
off chasing after every sound he hears.
This is the divided city within your own brain --
which is the normal condition for a normal man,
which of course leaves you out or you wouldn’t be
reading this.

A man who truly wants to satisfy that special hunger
experienced by the few
must Do,
and he must Think –
both of which he is automatically doing already – BUT!
he must stop already from doing them “automatically”,
for living in such a natural manner 
will bar a man from ever satisfying that 
beautiful hunger,
(or even understanding what it is –
which is almost as pleasurable.)

Consolidation, my friends, is the key.

   Consolidate! --  OR --  always-be-late!
   ………..for your own enlightenment.

                                Jan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Psst! --  here’s the trick:
   don’t  let Thinking
   get away from Doing.

Psst!  --  that’s what “being awake” is all about.
 

One man in fact promotes what he calls:  The Moosh Method,
whereby you take what ever activities appear to 
separately exist in you and --  Moosh 'em all together!

                                      BAMB!