All Advice is a Day Old

A Conversation Overheard on a Sunday:

“Serious people don’t see anything funny about being alive.”
“Whoa, say, is that why they’re…” (you guessed it!)

Sometime later, over drinks, Monday looked up over his glass and said: “You ever notice that nobody finds any ready humor in calendars and watches?!”

By its nature – All advice is a “Day Old.”

All advice is a “day old” –
except that which a rebel
secretly gives himself.

As her daughter and son prepared to set off for the World of City Education, the mother told the girl, “Never believe a man’s Important New Scientific Theory unless you’ve slept with him.” 
Then, turning to the boy,she said, “I guess you’re on your own.” 
(That tour guide from earlier said again that, “Entire religions have been started on less, but someone slammed the bus door on his tongue.)

The condemned man, being the true intellectual that he was, asked only for his “Final request,” that something – anything – be shouted just as he was shot.

(A perhaps glaringly-obvious corollary to the above:  In an adjoining cell was a primary-based man who, as his “Final request,” simply asked that he be let go.)

J.

The Universe is a Tricycle

A fellow writes The News:

     “After hearing all of your many and far-reaching comments regarding seriousness, I’d like to ask you this:  Can I at least take death to be a serious matter?  Yours, etc.”
Dear Fellow:  “Why Certainly.”

Down in the village tavern, a critic of court told a companion:

“I suspect that the greatest ploy ever played by the king’s Intelligence Agency, was in surreptitiously promoting, amongst the people, the belief that they were little more than bumbling incompetents, worthy only of ridicule.” 
His table mate thought for a moment and said, “That sounds a lot like my mind.”

A hobby with more frequent payoffs than even “lightning spotting,” is that if you’ll Look Around you’ll always see some irony.  This universe is a tricycle, and to the ordinary eyes, one of the wheels always “acts funny.”

On special occasions, this man would roll up his best hormones into a pack, (like candy), and call them, “Tootsie Baby-Bundles,” and pass them out to his friends.

Raise the bridges and let another definition through:

A Revolutionist: Someone who doesn’t compare himself with anybody.

J.

Deeds and Words

At the corner, one man grabbed another by the sleeve and said:  “You know what the world’s waiting for now?  Well, let me tell you what it’s waiting for.  It’s waiting for a new religion, one that will condemn SECONDARY activities.  Now that’s what everyone is waiting for.”  And with that he turned to walk away, and no one made any move to stop him.

This letter:

“Dear Miss Etiquette,

        Could you take an ‘important truth’ and still make it sound silly?’

And Miss Etiquette says, “I’m not going to answer that.”

It is easier for ordinary minds to try and understand man collectively, factionally: as part of a culture, a nation, a religion, (etc), rather than as an individual.

And now Let’s Twist Our Brains Like We Did Last Summer:

Which would you prefer:  to be creative and on your own, or, be a dunce with a good rap?

Words and Deeds – Deeds and Words:

In the primary world it is deeds which count, while in the secondary, words.  Thus, in that latter realm, all may be brave and brilliant.  And thus it is, that if Attila were brought to Plato’s playing field, he would not seem a Super Bowl champ.

J.

The Counterpart

During moments that a neural Revolutionist is not being entertained by life – he’s not a Revolutionist.

In the dust on the bar, the man wrote out these words:

“A man’s mind is like a little feller, put up on top of a real high dam, and put in charge of looking after the thing, but given no instructions…(plus, no one ever comes to relieve him).”

Every person has a counterpart –
and you don’t have to go looking for him.

A gentleman who lives in town, in the Third Ward says:
“I do not have a backyard, and thus have nothing to say on the matter.”

As the rapidly maturing young man, was about ready to join the civilized culture of his times, a maven so instructed him:  “Over here, a man with few pretentions, has few friends.”

J.

Gazelles and Lions

A lad looked up from his book and said:

“Hey, Pop, listen to this,” and began to read:  “Courage consists not in simply overcoming fear, but in studying its many faces, and carefully planning for its defeat.  So tell me, wise father, could the same be said regarding the relationship between thinking and ignorance?” 
The ole man replied, “Not hardly, my boy, unless you were the routine sort who believes everything they read and hear.”  (Oh yeah, a post script:  Beyond the words we just heard, later that same day, the kid realized that the ole man was also subtly describing what the ordinary call “ignorance,” as an illusionary punching bag.)

The people in the basement decided:  “A secondary man is a happy man.”
(And under their breaths added:  “He BETTER be!”)

At a recent dinner party, the mayor of one city was overhead to say that he found the arts to be, “Incivility made manifest – with a price tag attached for the effort.”

Gazelles only live
because lions are there
to kill them.

Okay, the final version; let’s see if you get it this time:

One man said his lifelong spiritual quest reached its climax when, while in the high mountains of Turkistan, under the blistering influence of some low drugs, he suddenly came to the realization that the term, “metaphysical consequences,” began with the same letters as the name of his childhood sweetheart, Margaret Culhane.  (Now do you bloody get it?!)

J.

Imprisoned

Professor K’s Saturday Quiz:

If you fool a herd, how can an individual cow tell?
(It can’t, Ha Ha!  They’re coming to take it away, Ha Ha!)

A correpondent writes:

“I was livin’ along pretty good – ‘til I got to thinkin’ about it.”

Those are imprisoned who think they are;

And those who believe they are not, are therefore also.

The Important People of this one planet held down and tortured the Silly Man, insisting: “We insist that you admit that there’s at least one other thing besides death that is serious.”  And he said, “Alright, okay – talking about death.”  (And with that, they let him go, and he seemed satisfied.  But what do important people know?! Right?!)

The ordinary stand on the shoulders of the past, a rebel – his own.  And upon hearing this stated, an everyday mind responded:  “But that is impossible.”  And a Revolutionist, upon hearing this response, ignored it.

J.

The Universe is a Tricycle

This one city made this note:

“A man with a ‘bad attitude’ can, with just the teensiest bit of help from me, easily develop what is, to ME, a good and useful attitude.”  (And off to the side the city whispered:  “Truth-to-tell, the two are not all that different to begin with…Shhh!”)

The universe is a tricycle.

And now A Quiz Game, (are there any other kinds?!):

What is a metaphor for a metaphor? – A plain blank wall.

And the Quiz Master asked himself:  Couldn’t you just as well say, “An unaffected mountain?” (And just to keep up the little “joke,” replied to himself, “Hey, get outta my face!”)

When one man did realize that he was “his own best friend,” it made him so despondent that he turned to a life of drink and dissolution.  (Some years later, he thanked himself.)

Defying the harsh wind and the cold, one man mushed the hearty word onward:

Dreams:  Hormones’ attachment to thinking.

J.

Tight Muscles, Loose Mind

The primary world takes actions for words;
while the secondary takes words for words,
and figures that, eventually,
actions should become so also.

One man named his mind “Floyd.”  He said that his particular selection wasn’t all that significant; that the important thing was just to be on a “first name basis.”

The Maintenance Man, who had worked in the building for many years, said that the only thing left about him now that still impresses him, is the severity of the headaches he sometimes gets.  As we were leaving, his wife said that, “If you live around here long enough, you’ll die.”  And as we were getting back on the bus, our tour guide said, “Friends, whole religions have been started on less…a LOT LESS!”

As the children would leave the house each morning, the mother would slap them all on the back and exhort, “Remember, tight muscles, loose mind!”

Just as soon as the atmosphere had cooled, the seas resided and the land mass formed; the dense came together and quickly decided, “We’ve got to get organized to be sure we don’t get duped.”

J.

A Sincere Man

A sincere man
pretends that he cares.

And a chap steps forward to declare: “I will accept no gibberish before its time.”

Hormones can add,
Blood subtract,
But only neurons,
multiply.

And a man says: “Hey – if I’d wanted to know what was going on, I’d been born a Revolutionist.”

Three Lines from a Grand And Mystical Dialogue:

“Every time a man whines an angel dies.”

“I don’t believe that!”

“Well, it SHOULD be so.”

J.

Trouble Comes in Pairs

If you know what to think and still don’t think it, then you don’t really know what to think.

A Universal Law (As Manifest Locally):

Those with pea-brains will seldom admit it.

And saideth this one man:
“Trouble comes in pairs – just look at me.”

One man told everybody in the world not to “fuck with him” – (everybody that is, except other humans).

The only truthful thing you can say about anything in the closet is that it’s in the closet.

J.

How Can You "Know" More Than You Know?

If you don’t think-beyond-your-own-thoughts, you’re not using the mind to its full potential.

After having made this factual statement, it would not be unexpected that someone would ask:  “How do you do that?”  Not only can I not answer that question, but the answer to that question is totally beyond the thoughts that asked it…a fact which, (If you “get it”), answers the question.

What This whole thing is about, “A More Complete Awakening Of The Mind,” is transparently dependent on the mind.  What else is there to use in such an undertaking?  And yet a glaring, (though ignored), point of viscidity lies at the heart of this, (to wit):  What knowledge about your mind can your thoughts contribute, that is not already in your mind!? 

Plainly put:  “How can you ever ‘know’ more than you know?!”

Now one not so plain:  “How can you ever be more conscious than you are, at any moment you are thinking about being, ‘more conscious’?”  You cannot be.  This is the sticky problem that thoughts do not want to deal with – indeed they are by nature UNABLE to “deal with it.”  Right there is all the “Way To Wake Up,” that an experienced and perceptive man requires…which is why I say:  If you do not think beyond your own thoughts, you never use thinking to its fullest potential and if that remains the case – you will never wake up to what is really going on.

J.

Thinking about Doing

Doing is instinctive, while thinking is second-order-instinctive, often appearing to be as much influenced by the external, man-made, cultural environment as by the internal, physiological one.  (But do take note that the trick term Is, “Appearing to Be.”)

Reminder Of Our Main Topic:

“Anything anyone says, (and ergo thinks), deserves to be mocked and ridiculed.”

Sub-Topic:

“Ideas that can be offended, should be offended.”

If you believe that a particular idea is true and cannot see how it deserves to be insulted and offended, then you believe an ideal that is a lie.

“Ideas that can be insulted should be insulted and the more impressive they sound, the more they deserve to be insulted.”  (How “Rock Climbing” and “Wising Up” rules regard letting go of what you presently are holding onto are connected to offending that to which you presently hold to.)

Most people spend most of their time thinking about doing.

Mystics think about thinking,

and those who go beyond being mere mystics,

think about all the time they wasted thinking.

J.

Doing, Thinking & Talking

Our main topic today is:

“Anything ever said deserves to be ridiculed.”  (Of course not actively or overtly so; in fact there is no exact word for what I mean:  Derided, Mocked, Dismissed, Disdained, or Unworthy of Notice.)

Man seems to live by “doing,” and to live by “thinking and talking.”  While doing is essential to survival, thinking and talking are not.  A man could, in fact, survive solely by “doing” if he were removed from an environment wherein thinking had been made an integral part of everyday life. So, doing is essential – thinking is not.

Actual survival is IN doing, while thinking is either thinking-about-essential, survival-related-doing, or is thinking-about-non-essential-doing that is merely distraction and entertainment, or is thinking-about-things that are total inventions of previous human thinking.  “Anything that’s said or thought by anyone deserves to be ridiculed.”

Thinking is intended to assist doing in matters of survival.  But thinking can also interfere with essential doing, (such as in being mentally “somewhere else” while carrying needed water, and tripping and spilling it.)

NOTE:

Things men “DO” may be laughed at,
but only what they think deserves to be ridiculed.

 J.

Making Eye Contact

When you realize that “Feeling’s the Thing,” and not Thinking, everything you’ve ever heard about “Waking Up” makes more sense than ever; (because it hardly makes any sense at all now), when you think about it.

Making eye contact with thought, (rather than looking to feeling), is making ice so that you will have something to boil, to have water.

There is an approach that you can invent for yourself, that I call by the name of:  “Look Away.”

Only a total fool attempts to explain, (from his own personal view), what it is to: “Want to Awaken.”

When asked about his place of residency, one man replied: “I presently live a bit north of my thalamus – but I’m attempting to relocate.”

There is a method that you can adopt as your own by which you “look away” – always looking up just over the heads of thoughts, off to the infinite horizon.  (P.S. Keep the whole affair as non-specific as possible.)

J.

Look Away

All men are a “walking bundle of feelings,” only difference is an enlightened man KNOWS better.

Although from the classical mystic’s view, everyone who is not struggling to “awaken” is “asleep,” and in that such people rarely “Think About Themselves.”  From that perspective unique to mystics, they cannot be said to actually “Be Asleep.”

You must be a person who consistently engages in “thinking about yourself,” from an “insider’s viewpoint,” to be asleep; (curious as it sounds) only those wanting to awaken ARE asleep.

Isn’t that the kind of statement sufficiently curious to cause you to – Look Away – to look above and beyond the heads of all the words and images, always trying to arise from the caustic depths of your mind, and take full control of your consciousness.

If the true sign of an awakened man is that, “You cannot discern his mind,” how about what’s between you and your own so-called “Mind”?

J.

Touchy! Touché!

One man pondered; “Is there in fact a ‘Song Of Awakening,’ one, if which I sang, would produce awakening?” 

And a voice from somewhere answered him:  “Yes, providing you DIDN”T sing it.” 

(“You see, said another voice, “Right there’s the PROBLEM with all of this!”  Touché, touché!  Touchy and – touché.)

Once he has turned the ideas of “awakening” around in his mind, to a degree sufficient for him, the worst thing such a man can do after that is to – think about his life.

If there is no immediate problem that has a possible physical solution, there is no reason for a man seeking the goal to ever be thinking about his life.

You live your mundane, moment-to-moment, uneventful life by feelings, with nothing there about for an awakened man to think about.

When you start, you’re confused and un-enlightened; then you become enlightened and un-confused.  But the Big Game is to be neither confused nor enlightened.  (Those who accomplish that are the unknown Hall-of-Famers.)

J.

The "Appearance" of the Mind

One guy’s current view is thus:

“The entire manifestation of ‘being asleep’ could be described, on a personal level, as doing more than is necessary at any given instant, under any given conditions.  To ‘be awake’ (or at least to BEHAVE as if awake), is, by consequence: never doing any more than is minimally called for by the circumstances.”

Thus, from his view, “being asleep” is in “Acting in Excess,” a domain overseen entirely by one’s “apparent self.”  In fact, “Acting in excess of what is necessary,” is the apparent self’s raison d´etre.  (This would also explain the frequency with which the Few mention the tiredness they experience from “being asleep.”)

About The Mind:

There is the “appearance” of the mind,
and the “reality” of the mind,
and anyone who says they understand the latter –
doesn’t.

To be fully enlightened is to recognize the “appearance” of the mind, and not be fooled that you understand its reality.

(To realize the emptiness of an empty room is to awaken to its nature.)

J.

A New Condition

While there have been many who said we should live solely in the present moment, how many ever realize that it may not be possible for thought TO live in the here and now, and that this can only be done by feelings.

As per my latest model, you shouldn’t say that the goal is: “A New State Of Mind,” but rather:  “A New Condition.”

What ghosts haunt
a man’s mental house
other than memories?!

To express no verbal comment is to “Behave Properly.” 
To HAVE no comment is to “Be Awake.”

A question involving the following two poems:

Number One:  
“A Man with no feeling
seems quite appealing.”

Number Two: 
“He who does not feel
 has no appeal.”
Which one do you feel is the more accurate?  (You know, when the light hits you in a certain way, you’re quite attractive.)

J.

A Single Word Can Free You

Life is not this,
Life is not that,

A cat is a cat,
A cat’s not a cat.

(A single word can free you
while all the rest ensnare you.)

To realize that you’ve never said a word
is to comprehend the nature of words.

All it takes to go from “Thinking to Feeling,” is to have a “Moment-Of-Meditation” whenever needed.  This is a subtle means to move away from your apparent self, and closer to your real one.

Thoughts can EXPLAIN anything – but never satisfactorily – since they’re merely reports and reminders of things, and NOT actual things themselves.

In a curious way – “Being Enlightened,” is a state wherein the unspeakable within you – speaks for you.

J.

A Few Words About Words

What keeps you from having an, “untroubled eye,” other than the past clinging mentally to you?!

That we daydream is not so much a real problem, as is the fact that, in so doing, we are made more distant from our feelings.

Thoughts blindly take over consciousness from feelings.  Don’t be blind in the mind and you feel, and you won’t be blinded by the mind.

A Few Words About Words:

If you say that Life is harsh
then you have made it harsh by so saying. 
And if you say that Life is not harsh,
you have made a mistake.

Since no one word has any real meaning, the other ten thousand are made more astounding.  Only he who understands the nature of words has severed his tongue at its root.

J.