JAN’S FRESH REAL NEWS
© 2001:Jan
Cox
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November
11, 2001.
MORE NEWS YOU FAILED TO NOTICE
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There
is a physical world and a verbal world and they each have their own reality,
but
while the former exists both in itself and in the latter,
the
verbal exists only in its own realm.
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There
are tyrants who seek to crush men’s spirits,
and
sages who attempt to lift them;
then
there are the secret few who trade not with either camp.
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EVERYTHING
THE FEW NEED KNOW ABOUT WHAT IS NATURAL
If
the way you live that feels right to you, others call an un natural life,
then
that is what is natural for you.
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A
FACT BEST LEFT UNKNOWN
Everything
in the external world can be put to some practical use;
nothing
in the internal.
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One
man says: “Amongst the riffters & the raffters,
quoting
the words of other men already publicly accepted as wise,
is
taken as a sign of the quoter’s own intelligence, whereas in truth,
if
a man had any real intelligence
he
would never have a need to ever repeat anything that anyone has already
said."
Real intelligence is totally home grown & harvested.
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The
reason men believe that their “I” has a physicality is that it is
with
their body that they most commonly associate.
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Thoughts: engine noises from temperament.
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Knowing
when to mentally shut up and being able to make your mind do it,
is
Enlightenment.
He who recognizes the extent of his beauty is alone handsome.
A
true king does not mind feeble pretenders.
(Do
planets envy boulders; sight, blindness; knowing, guessing?)
A
father said to a son: “How can you be sure that what you are sure you know
is not what you actually do not know, and that what you think you do not
know is what you actually know?”
(and
after he regained consciousness) the younger replied:
“How do I know for sure that you are my
origin?”
Only the partially informed are sure of anything.
A
man who tells you that he knows the distinction between profit & loss
tells
you that he understands nothing.
To
speak without saying anything,
and
be able to say something without speaking
is
the secret sign of being fully informed.
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TWO
QUESTIONS BEST LEFT UNANSWERED
How
can anything imaginary cause one grief?,
or
a dreamed up tree come to fruition?
(And
one question that is safe to handle:
“What
the hell’s up with all these questions hoomans have!")
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A
STORY BEST LEFT UN TOLD
A
man who spent fifty years struggling for enlightenment one day bumped his
head and forgot all about it.
ONE
MAN’S: QUESTION OF THE DAY
Are
there too few ways to wake up or too many?
Yes.
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He who argues always misses something.
He
who argued -- missed the point -- of whatever it
was being discussed.
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Understanding
is at ease, while mere knowledge is always agitated,
and
grand ideas are simple, while small ones are full of meaningless detail.
…..(same
with men).
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The
question of whether you can see yourself objectively or not,
at
first seems to be a big deal………then later on,
you
realize you wouldn’t recognize a big deal if it pissed on your foot.
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YOUR
UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT YOU SAY, DEFINED
The
difference between “some” and “many” is how far you’re willing to lie.
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The
only statements to which a 20/20 man might give attention
would
be ones concerning matters he could go put his hands on.
(The
rest of the population is too sophisticated to go for this.)
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ANOTHER
BIT OF REVEALING DIALOGUE
“I
see you are still talking about the same old thing.”
“Yes -- the only thing I find worthy of talking about.”
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One
man says that the one fitting finish to any statement should be:
“(Blah
blah blah blah blah) -- which may or not be true.”
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It’s
bad enough to be asleep & dreaming most of the time --
but
it could be worse!
You
could be trying to tell other people how to wake up
while
not being able to do so yourself.
(How
can you not appreciate life’s sense of the absurd,
right
up to the bursting point.)
SOMETHING TO REALLY THINK ABOUT
One
man was told: “Some people think you are the smartest man alive (that you
understand more than any man alive)” –
he
pondered this for a moment, then said: “It is possible --
but
if it were true, it would change my whole definition/understanding of what
the term means.”
And finally: THE PRIVATE QUESTION NEVER TO BE ABANDONED
Do I see while others are blind, or do others see and it is I who am blind?
Take off those strangling mental clothes my friends -- be free and fly;
it is only those who no longer know -- who know.
J