Everybody
wants to be recognized for, knowing-something --
which
can either be: knowing how to physically do something,
(plant
beans, play basketball, perform surgery),
or
be knowing about something that exists only in men’s words:
the
critical fissure in human existence: the difference between doing,
and story-telling.
To
be enlightened is to know-about-knowing;
to
be awake is to know the true story regarding story-telling.
* * *
What
a man says that he thinkscould
be
of some significance -- if
he
planned, intended and willed the thoughts that he has -- otherwise.....
(you know the drill).
* * *
Nobody
can beat the rap, (and the rap is): whatever you, by temperament are.
What
you can do however (albeit extraordinary and uncalled for) is to:
(1):
realize the rap (2): accept the rap, then (3): have your consciousness
let go of it.
These
three together constitute: awakening-to-your-own-condition.
* **
Forget
about vampires, zombies & E.T.’s --
if
you do not find the most amazing thing in life the fact that you are now
thinking about vampires, zombies & E.T.'s from your seeing these words
on your computer screen,
there
is little chance you have the ability to ever distinguish the truly extraordinary
from the mundane (which is the mother and daughter of all that is extraordinary).
What
is more astounding than there being something in your head
thoroughly
engaged in activity that seems totally apart from your purely
physiological
existence.
....or
better yet:
what
is more confounding than the fact that humans feel a need for the word,
seems.
* * *
All
autobiographies are of losers: in spite of the always central theme of
the
author detailing the troubles of his life and his eventual triumph there
over,
they
are still always the story of a loser,
for
no one but
a loser would admit that anything in his life was ever a problem.
Real
heroes come not in relative degrees -- nor in self identification.
* * *
People
who (when they tell you something)
go
to the trouble of saying that they, know-what-they-are-talking-about
have
not taken the trouble to know what they are talking about.
Those
who-know
--
do not there get via self proclamation.
* **
Definition:
Evil:
evil
is someone trying to dominate you when you do not want to be dominated.
"Pa
-- is having your consciousness commanded by thoughts an evil?"
Consciousness
has no natural immune system;
the
body is susceptible to disease --
the mind to story telling.
* **
If
you have never asked: “Why do bad things happen to good people”
there
may be hope for you.
*
*
*
To
be of ordinary consciousness is to be near-drowned in thoughts.
* **
Being
awake has no public face;
no
lobby, no organization, no slogan or proclaimed program,
...............and
few of its numbers know each other.
* * *
Trying
to awaken is the attempt to untie an un untieable knot,
and
only those who succeed realize that the knot is un untieable.
It
is better to not-get-it, and know that you don't,
than
to think you do when you do not.
J
.......Men
are visited only by life -- under the name, I.