A
father said to a son:
“Look
at the crowds at a car race, a hit movie, or some political or religious
event
while
pondering the notion that man is free.”
The
forum’s featured speaker so addressed the assembled:
“Ordinary
men do not pursue their ordinary activities because of desire for success,
nor from fear of failure, but rather from something else,” and as he turned
to leave the podium someone shouted out: “So what is it?” and he stopped
long enough to reply: “No one knows: that’s why I get the big bucks to
speak to dopes like you.”
Mused
one guy: “If I could afford an ongoing, audible voice-over to my life
like
the animals on tv nature programs have, people would pay attention to me
too.”
Once
you realize what’s really going on you can see the machinery of ordinary
men’s minds working as they speak and it is in no wise thinking.
Men
wired up a particular way (but not sufficiently so to ever wake-up)
often
want to help others materially;
in
fact if it weren’t for enlightenment failures, organized charitable activities
and
professional do-gooders wouldn’t exist.
Today’s
Jump-Start Question.
Can
you pay so much attention to a thing that you become part of it?
(Hint:
Even if you immediately feel there is a meaningful response to this,
look
at the question again: Isn’t it actually ridiculous?!
Is it?!)
All
ordinary people take life personally, but they do so while taking into
account only two-thirds of the forces involved in Life;
so even if you have been mistreated,
you
don’t have sufficient evidence to so conclude.
(“That’s
okay by me: I’d rather be able to complain than be justified in my complaints:
and that my friend, is the homo sapiens’ way.”)
Nothing
causes anything, but not to be concerned: everything causes anything.
No
matter how many ships are ready to sail away – there is always but
one sea.
(“You’re really talking about thoughts and consciousness, correct?!”
A
man on the dock with questions is like a pelican with a briefcase.)
The
ordinary appear to make constant, though ephemeral decisions,
while
the few conduct a continual survey of all possibilities.
There
is no true question regarding birth vs. environment;
it
is really a matter of form & energy, nouns & verbs.
“Thoughts & consciousness?”
Thoughts
& consciousness.
Humanity’s
Bunco Update.
Only
the few are not frauds;
only
the man-who-knows is sufficiently silent & invisible as to not be misleading.
(“So you’re saying that the way to not deceive yourself
is to not be around whenever your gullible side is?”
An
interesting way to put it.)
Musical
Update.
There
is built-in leeway in everyone’s fundamental key; the few however have
need
for
their nervous-system not to be constantly destabilized by every passing
note.
What a beautiful harbor – what a number of unkempt boats vying
for space.
Never
look back – nothing is gaining on you back there but inverted
reflections of what you fear up ahead.
Only
a nervous-system attracted to its own tower of babble can be apprehensive
outside the instant moment;
thus
is there a kind of magical protection possible in man’s realm of
time.
(“So I don’t actually have to go TO Merlin’s
Cave – just to it
NOW?!”
You
indeed can turn an apt phrase.)
One
man used to congratulate his self --
until
he finally realized who
he was talking to!
Jimminee yimminee!
Yuckidee huckidee.
The
special-investigator must see the uselessness of going along with the
inner
flow that naturally occurs in him:
Said
a man: “Men say you are what you eat, but I say: ‘Vice versa to you!’ –
in fact
and
furthermore: ‘Vice versa to what I just said!’”
So said one man.
A
father said to a son:
“The
tricks I give you are like special maps which seem to have a primary purpose
and
destination, but there is also a secondary purpose and place which
you must discover through your own inner effort and travel.”
Consciousness
is like a magnetized field: a screen on which energy seeks form.
If
nothing else: Man is a specialized medium.
Man’s
normal neural state is the result of his nervous-system energy reaching
its final form in his Yellow Circuit which then produces the workable “I”
that appears on the screen of consciousness and seems to speak for him
and his (quote)
understanding.
(This
world's grandest and most efficient illusion.)
Inner
Update.
Consciousness
is not the information on the screen – consciousness IS the
screen;
what
those of standard wiring cannot grasp is that while the book is real,
the
tales in it are not.
As
neural energy seeks its final form in routine brains it goes through a
particular process to become part of retrievable memory;
the
mind will say it, then record it, and ultimately be it;
for
the man trying-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-things this however is a form of
slow
cerebral suicide;
for
the few: If it was sufficiently interesting when it happened –
it
is worthy of now being forgotten.
(“You didn't mention the forgetting of the thing that remembers.”
That
also.)
You
either learn the machinery of human existence,
or
you remain just a blind component thereof.
In
musical terms: what seems to be each person’s individual personality is
like a
chord
consisting of three notes, one of which
-- for any extraordinary gain
in understanding to occur --
must be changed – and only you can do it.
(“How?”
By
greater understanding – which is achieved via a relentless, internal nosing-around.)
Success
for the certain-man is when there is no longer the trace of a struggle;
this
comes to be when your “I”
in its many forms and voices
has
become irrelevant to you;
the
required initial investigation is a stunning struggle, but never
lose track that:
The
ultimate struggle of the few is to put an end to all needless struggles.
J
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