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The Daily Reflections
of Jan Cox

 

Well known is the notion of, "Flee or Fight"
whereby it is noted that creatures (including man)
will "flee" from predators, which are of a different species,
and "fight" when it comes to competing for resources with one's own species.

Question: How might this apply to "trying to awaken" when in doing so we are attempting to flee-and-escape-from forces that are not of our species--and at the same time fighting against internal forces that ARE native to our species.

 

 

 

(...a certain man summed up
all he had to say
on the subject with these words:
"If ya knew what's-going-on
you couldn't live like ya do.")

 

 

One afternoon one man concluded:
"Heaven would be a place
where the phone never rings,"
and his friend said:
"Not bad, but you ignore the possibility of a place where you can elect to become selectively hard-of-hearing."

 

 

 

On a trip to the park, a boy asked his father:
"Should I be concerned about how much
my mind enjoys my thinking?"
And the elder responded:
"No--but you should be interested in it, and particularly in the fact that thinking is the only thing available to your mind, yet it has no constant awareness of this fact...the mind
can-and-will think it has other abilities....here is the crux of the adventure you have undertaken."
And the boy asked:
"So what is your advice to me in all this?"
"Always look at the bottoms of your feet as you go," the father advised.

 

Feet can only
walk on the ground,
and ground can only be
trod by feet.

So, no matter where you look,
there's the mind always--
Looking back.

 

 

 

And a man sitting on a nearby bench asked his companion: "How long must I look at my mind before it awakens to the truth?" and his friend replied, "No one has that long--there's not that much 'long' in the whole universe."

 

 

 

And a nearby squirrel thought:
When it's dark, it's dark.
When it's light, it's light.

 

 

J