JAN'SDAILYFRESHREALNEWS
©
2001: JAN
COX
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January
5, 2002.
To
celebrate National Blunt Day, father & son were initially undecided
whether to
light
up, or be candid, ‘til younger urged:
“Talk
to me pater, plainly: placating me with neither palter nor palaver,
and
tell me as simply as possible:
What
is really behind the notion that man is asleep & lives in a dream?”
“Simple
I can say it -- for simple it be;
it is in fact its supreme simplicity that requires men to make up
a multitude of mysterious names and metaphysical descriptions for it,
but all it is is this:
Taking the meaningless meanderings of the mind to be meaningful.”
Some
readers of these daily writings say they have been offended, disturbed,
even frightened by what they interpret as an assertion being made here
that men do not have an actual inner “self or I” – feelings which,
if
you are not disposed to look into the matter for yourself,
are
not surprising --
but
such responses to the idea are not only ill founded,
but
should tip off the alert, (even among those who experience them),
that
something quite interesting & worthwhile must be therein extant.
The
ordinary-minded of collective humanity in fact are made to sound specific
alarm regarding the danger of a person somehow losing a sense of
them
having an individual self, or of it even being weakened;
described
in such terms: it is considered a mental illness,
which,
from the routine perspective is understandable,
but
for the non routine few, the possibility -- much less its realization,
(if
it be true) -- that you do not have an actual little “you” inside
of you,
is
not disturbing, no indeed -- the sudden recognition of the reality
in you
which
gives rise to the idea in the first place, is liberating, not disturbing.
Being
released from a real prison is grand enough,
but
being freed from an illusionary one will make your toes curl in glee.
Trying
to awaken
is the attempt to create something stable and substantive
out
of something ephemeral and ethereal.
Ordinary
men feign astonishment at things which are in truth --
quite ordinary,
while
extraordinary men are astonished only that everyone else doesn’t get it.
The
difference between being ordinary and being awake is that :
everybody
else believes in magic (in some form or the other.)
The ultimate distinction is that a man with open eyes/I’s doesn’t believe in anything -- -- he no longer needs to.
A
son asked a father: “I’ve heard it said:
‘What
can’t be cured must be endured’ –
does
that apply to oneself also?”
Ten
thousand things are required -- not a single one necessary;
for
ThisThing
to occur,
ten thousand things are required,
and
yet not a single one of them is necessary.
Trying
to awaken is the supreme act of individualism:
the
ultimate: One-against-the-many, in that
there
is but one voice, one thought in you, amongst the thousands of others,
which wants to.
Men
came up with the idea of there being this entirely unique thing:
“the
human experience” merely because they have no idea what it is.
A Previously Covered Story Revisted & Re-inflated:
A
man who, for quite some time, had struggled for TheSecret
under
the eyes of one he believed knew,
eventually
departed, then saw him years later and said accusatorily:
"Why
did I not succeed while I was with you?" to which he replied:
"I never
told you to stop"
but
this time consider that the affair took place solely within your brain,
and
that the two figures represent The One
and The Many
of your mind.
One
guy says: “In that we do not know how we got here;
how
long we will be here, or what happens after we leave here,
it
is altogether surprising that men manage to enjoy themselves here
as
much as they sometimes seem to do."
A
shallow man is a satisfied man;
a
man shallow by his own efforts is satisfied beyond all normal comprehension.
If
you do not enjoy your life as much as possible -- you
insult life.
J
......tout
bien ou goobers.