You will be delighted to learn that today we are in northeast China near the birthplace of the world's first map maker, 
Xzpytsu Yxzrtyz,
(who never gained his rightful place in history 
due to the fact that no one could pronounce his name.)
But being here does serve as a suitable setting for another of my attempts to set the record straight regarding what wanting to, “Wake-Up,” 
(or achieve, “Enlightenment”), is factually all about. 

If you are interested in this matter, take note that nothing I ever say is an attack, or some sort of  attempted “expose” thereof.
“Waking-Up” could not have a bigger booster than me, and all I offer here is well……..…it is what it is.

You can stand and watch a magnificent 
merry go round with its music, flashing lights,
multicolored horsies bobbing up and down,
going endless, round and round,
and be entertained and fascinated therewith.
You can also try to get behind the mirrors that surround its center core and see the hidden machinery responsible for all the noise and action.

                I report on the latter.

                …………that’s where the REAL fun lies.
 

               Here are today’s said reports.

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The most radically effective method to alter your ongoing state of consciousness is as follows:
  If you are French  --  think in Japanese.
 
 

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To Wake-up is like a detective trying to solve a case,
wherein he must discover clues to crimes 
he does not yet know even exist. 
  (Here is where, thinking-in-an-unknown-tongue
   comes in most handy.)
 
 
 

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The method a man chooses to seek Enlightenment
must meet two requirements:
It must entertain him, 
and it must instruct him.

The first is real --  the second, illusionary,
but it is the latter that is the most entertaining;
thus a man’s judgement of a method 
must be founded in this question: 
“ What I am beginning to see – does it please me?
-- AND --
is it accomplishing things that I did not expect,
can never  prove , and cannot discuss with anyone?”

Man’s ordinary state of mind, 
and view of life is serious  --
serious and dimwitted, 
(just like it’s s’posed to be).

It takes a mind opened up to a new view of life --
--  one not on man’s routine menu  –
to see it otherwise  --  to in fact,
see life and one’s self stripped of the music,
flashing lights, and sheathing mirrors.

Merely wanting to Wake-up is a stroll through an amusement park;
seeing the machinery that makes it all work 
is the reality of the want.

I remind you of my: 
“Three Stages Of Awakening:
1. “I want to Awaken.”
2. “What IS, ‘Awakening’?”
3. “What is this, ’I’ thing in me that wants to Awaken?”

    (The best man to study the 
     electrical workings of the carrousel 
     is someone who thinks in plumbing.)
 
 

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Based on the historically held truth that 
the proper way to deal with mental anguish is by 
talking it out with either a trained professional, 
or with family, or trusted friends,
consider this:
    If talk can cure humans’ mental problems
    then talk is also their cause.
 

It’s all a verbal ballroom;
at times the dancing is tender & romantic,
at others, it becomes rough & violent, but
it’s still an intangible glide across a
make-believe floor.
 
 

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Upon first coming on an egg
you could hold it, and look at it,
and speculate on its nature  --   or –
you might brace up your nerve and break it up,
and see for yourself
what is inside.

Truth be told, this is not really the best approach,
for if you will cease listening to your own 
mind’s speculations on its contents,
it will break open of its own accord, 
and freely reveal itself to you.

The difficulty in understanding the song of the 
birds that fly by you
is not due to the flight of the birds,
but to the flight of your thoughts trying to 
understand their song.
 
 

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If thoughts alone put us to sleep,
is it not surely thought alone that can awaken us?
Perhaps so   --  but –
what thought is it that will betray his breed and
do the job?!
 

For a mind, to-this-business-born
all words about Enlightenment, 
(from one who knows),
are both entertaining and useful --  but  --
the words said are not the supreme pay off,
but rather what the words in your mind then
say to you about what was said.

A man-with-this-glorious-addiction
is ultimately on his own  -- 
not on his thought's own --  but  on his
own own,
and only you can find your own own.
(Hint: Go to the center of your merry go round,
and look behind those decorative mirrors.)

(Reminder of the efficient approach:
If you are frog  --   think in eagle.)
 
 

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       Wanting to awaken is trying to engage in 
       unknown cartography;
       ....I’m trying to point out short cuts.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Call the air port and tell ‘em --  we’re outta here!
…it’s the weekend  --  we don’t HAVE to be awake!
….right?!….isn’t that what you told me?!………….. 
 
 

                                           JAN