JAN’S
FRESH
REAL
NEWS
© 2001:JanCox
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November
25, 2001.
NEWS BITS TO FREE YOU FROM FITS
What
is important in a man’s life is whatever he feels is important,
and
what is important to most people are the things that are important to the
herd,
and
in whatever shape be your nature,
being
blind to this causes great disorientation and uncertainty what to
do.
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*
Everyone
in life is being assaulted –
but
at least not the real warrior by himself.
* * *
There
are 4 rhythms you can be in sync with: the rhythm of the people around
you;
the
rhythm of your own body; the rhythm of the thoughts passing through you,
or
the
overall, unspecified rhythm of life itself.
* * *
What
ordinary men call goodness is obviously no natural attribute of man or
else
why
would he have to strive so to exercise it.
There is an unknown betterness behind distracted men's concept of
goodness.
* * *
Wanting
to wake-up is wanting to capture lightning in a jar --
and
the jar is
the lightning.
* * *
Trying
to teach others how to be happy will make them miserable.
.........(Good
thing huh?!, that doesn’t apply to yourself.)
*
* *
When
you are in sync & know what is going on,
everything
is just the right size and shape.
* * *
One
man ponders:
"If
you are only truly rich when you are so rich that you no longer
ever think about it,
then
are you only really awake when you no longer think about it?”
* * *
Everyone
is under endless, automatic gun fire;
wishing
to awaken is wanting to be your own trigger man.
* * *
After
a lifetime spent chasing-the-ring a man sat one day and took stock:
“I
could not be Mindful,
or remember-myselfwhen
I started,
and
here now, forty years later -- I still cannot;
so
what is different after all my strain? -- nothing --
yet everything.”
Only those who get to where he was
can understand what he meant.
* * *
If men do live in a dream, the dream is that it is them doing the dreaming.
* * *
In
response to a question, a man said to his brother:
“I
did not say you could cure fragmented consciousness --
but
you can learn to work with it.”
* * *
A long relationship is a sad relationship.
The trick is: HIT & RUN. Wham-bam from birmingham!
* * *
If
you love knowledge, but do not comprehend understanding,
then
all you learn new but confuses you further.
* * *
Something
that should tell you more than just what it seems to tell you:
The
infallible test of whether you are asleep or not is
whether
or not it bothers you for someone to say that you are “asleep.”
(Nasty but neat in all directions.)
* * *
A free roaming ass is preferable to a stabled thoroughbred.
* * *
A
father so jostled his son:
“Remember
that when I speak to you in tone serious apparent
that
I do so with as much indifference as speech & life allows.”
* * *
An
unknown/unuttered axiom: “Let death take you
away,
every second of every day.”
Life, fractured and under stress, is less than a few men will tolerate.
He who understands that there is no choice but to,
die-before-you-die -- and endless times over ---
finally escapes the made-up hardships of being nominally alive.
There
is one question to which no man knows the answer.............. oh
yeah,
the answer to all other questions is that they have no answer.
J
Important Notice:
It has just been discovered that over the year
and a half that this feature has been running
someone with access to my web page has been periodically
pulling down
what I have written for that day and rewriting it
to say just the reverse of what was really said,
and putting it back on site as the day's Real Fresh
News;
the problem is that we cannot tell which days are
involved.
...........The
final trick is to either be still, or else never
be still -- even for a moment.