December 8, 2001.
 
 
 
 
 

                    Without the mind  --  a man is nothing  –  so: pertinent thereto ponder:

Reading steals your mind:
watching movies steals your mind;
listening to other people talk & sing steals your mind;
thinking about ideas other people have already thought about
steals your mind;
thinking about other people steals your mind;
thinking about yourself steals your mind --  so then!  --  ahhh......
                                         ......where does that leave us?......
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The job of thought is to divide:
divide the reality of how things are in the physical world from how they could be,
and to divide men one from another in ways beyond how occurs
instinctively on the physical level.

Life intends ordinary men to divide themselves into conflicting camps
over thoughts (religious, political, economic and any other similar schemes),
and it is strictly up to the individual few to see this situation for what it is.
 
 

You do not have to fret about bringing your dog under control if, as he roams,
you keep him from chewing on you.
(This is known as the:
You-are-doing-okay-if-you-extract-you-totally-from-all-your-day-dreams method.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A man who will tell you the reasons he thinks what he thinks,
would, in a comparison,
make an imbecile seem right bright.

  Stop reading the tickertape! --   Look out the window, quick!
  Quick! – look out the window!    Look out the window!
  Quick! – look out the window!    Look out the window, quick!

    Hey – don’t jump down my throat! --  jump down his!
      No, no, not down mine --  jump down that other guy’s throat!
         Whoa! -  don’t jump down my throat --  jump down that guy’s over there!
           Not so fast; put all them throats together then jump down just the one –
        --  that’s all you’re ever going to be doing anyway.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Roll this around in your mouth-hand:
Everything bad that physically happens to man involves gravity,
and everything bad, non physically involves SENTENCES!

Now that you know: Go forth and be done bad no more, (leastwise in one respect).
 
 

A man totally loyal to any idea or mental structure
is a dead man  -- and not just dead, but deadly fearful of  -- thought-alive.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Father told son:
”Here is the whole, knowing-the-secret-thing in a gnat's navel:
     This is not me saying this,
     and it is not you hearing me say it,
     and neither of us will ever know who either of us is;
     and unless you, wake-up,
     you will never realize that you do not know.”
 
 

Everything men discuss is either science or history:
science being the history of what men have thought about the world outside them,
and history being what they have thought about everything else.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

If you don’t think about it  --   you’re not mad at anyone;
if you don’t think about it  --  you don’t disagree with anyone;
think about THAT.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

If you think some ideas are true and some not, you will never know the truth.
Trying to live by mental precepts will cause you to be frightened by the truth.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

In his investigation, an alert man does not hope that any particular thing is true;
he is not looking to prove a point --  but to find the place of the
                                                    all encompassing one.
 
 

Everyone you meet will (within twenty four seconds)
decide that they want something from you --  except for a-man-who-knows--
                      --  since he knows you have nothing of value.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sentences told men they were conscious:
sentences led men into a dream (world);
sentences tell men they can awaken him from the dream;

   ("Man!  -- sentences will apparently tell you anything!   What a bunch of cut ups!")
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Those who do not know what is going on assume that a man who does is arrogant;
                                    that is what ignorance will do to you.
World leaders do not know what is going on;
spokesmen for god do not know what is going on;
titans of finance do not know what is going on;
scientific geniuses do not know what is going on,
so what is there to feel arrogant about?!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Everything men believe they learn comes to them like
mysterious mushrooms sprouting from an unfathomable darkness.

   Everyone knows where the wind originates  --   save he who rides it;
   everyone else is blown about by it.
 

       The mind can almost grasp it;
       the ignorant believe it actually does;
                                 knowers understand that it just ALMOST can.
 
 

Beginners believe they must get the mind out of the busy brambles
in which it is entangled
without considering the possibility of them getting out of the mind.
You must see you in the mind, and the mind in you;
only then does the matter become clear.
(......well --  perhaps not, clear   --   but ALMOST!)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Anyone’s body will be crushed in an avalanche,
but only an ordinary man’s ideas will be damaged by being fallen on.
 
 

                                                    Things may come, and
                                                     things may go, but
                                                     coming and going will
                                                     be around forever.
 
 

"Look out!" yelled father to son: "Here comes enlightenment!     Run for your life!
                                                                                  --   (such as it may be) ."

Later that day father confided to son: “I have made some very big personal plans –
                                                 --  and they do not include me.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                     You can take anything an awakened man says and reverse it  --
                                                        --  and it will still be true.

                                                            J