allegorical highway

Watch out for and ignore accidents on the mental highway. Looking at the car wrecks will likely lead to a crash straight into the sleepy blues. If you ever get involved with the cops, always remain silent because everything you say can be used against you.

grease

The ordinary way to look at new information it is as if it were paper on a page,
while the non-ordinary way to see it is to see what it says about how things work "up there" --in your noggin.

In other words, the simple grease their hair,
while the mystics grease their brains.

here and now

What if "here" and "now" are thoughts that never actually happen--thoughts that don't exist?

Man oh man, would Tolle be in doo doo up to his armpits if everyone on the "Living in the Now" ride were to suddenly realize that...You know--if people saw that they weren't any more in the here and now than they were when they were when they got fired from their job 3 years ago.

If you're game for a strong drink, scratch "What if?" and see what happens.

The Panic of Absence

I'm not here. So I try to fill this absence up with crap.

Crap includes my job, thinking, everyone I've ever met and writing this nonsense.

But the absence behind my face is also in all the crap I use to try and fill it, so nothing actually happens. Nothing I can do about this nothing. It's everywhere and I know it.

Just water pouring into water always.

Admit It

All your spiritual longing, study and learning is nothing more than Great Entertainment.

Nothing wrong. Just call a thing what it is.

Sense of Self

Today, was there a 'sense of self' all day long?

Or is it imposed after the fact?

Right here, there is looking at the screen, thinking 'what is this idiot writing about?' and feelings in your body. Right?

Just consciousness streaming, your unique predicament is just the totality expressing itself. Nothing wrong. No self. Already enlightened.

Looking Out

His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"
"It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."

A Silly Misunderstanding

'Look: what you think of as your 'self,' what you perceive as an individual person, this idea of being a separate entity, a body-mind-personality-soul-intellect: this is a subsequent by-product, an artifact, an almost accidental side effect of this streaming, this flowing of Consciousness.

It is the streaming of Consciousness in this organism which the organism inaccurately perceives as a 'mind' which it thinks is its own: it is the very Consciousness streaming in this organism which allows this perception at all, which makes it possible for this organism to think it is other than that same Consciousness. A simple, innocent misperception. And a silly one, because the very One who appears to be thinking this, who appears not to see, not to understand that it is not as a separate individual and is only as All That Is, is Itself the very I-ness that is the only Is-ness of all seeing, of all understanding. '

David Carse

Perfect Brilliant Stillness

get 'em guards!

In your mental prison-without-walls,
the only opportunity to learn anything new
is when they guards aren't trying to keep you in line..

....and they're always trying to keep you in line!

(For you idiots out there: the guards are your ordinary train of thought--trying to keep you distracted. They're not trying to distract you from anything in particular--it IS a prison without walls, after all.)

chicken

There was some really tasty curry chicken sitting in the refrigerator all day. I did not eat it because I did not know it was there. Because I didn't know about the chicken, I ate handfuls of dry cereal all day. Had I known the chicken was there, I would have had it for lunch.

It's easy to see if you know what you're looking for.

If you're looking for something, it's hard to see what you're not looking for.

If you're not looking for something, it's hard to see anything.

eye eye

If
You
Think
It
Is
Separate
From
Your
Own
Eyes
You
Will
Not
See
It

:O

Yeah...yeah...

"Yeah, yeah... I remember now. That's gotta be the 300th time today! I'm gonna
clip my fingernails instead."

Maybe that's a little unclear..

Your train-of-thought stays on the same track because you forgot you've already
thought about it (many times) before.

Here's what happened to my -box- when it was first introduced to nonduality/no-self/neo advaita and that kinda stuff;

"Who Me?
Yes You!
You?
"You" "Who?"
Not me.
Couldn't be!"

Over and over and over and over.

It's...as they say...All In Your Head

If humans didn't have such a bad memory, then they might have had an easier time seeing what life is all about.

Their situation now goes a little something like this:

Two plus...what was I adding again? Did I already add two? Two plus (forget) two plus (forget) two plus (forget) two plus (forget)

(Those humans.....Few of them ever get anywhere, as they are content just spinning their wheels. Maybe it's because few of them remember what they set out to do!)

(And few of them ever set out to do anything.)

A mystic knows when he's making progress when things become less and less clear.

Can you guess why?

Don't bother--I'll fill in the blanks:

It's because he notices that what he called 'clarity' was his own illusion.

(err..that's how I know I'm having fun)

Bad Memory Is Good Memory For Sleepwalkers...But It's A Pain In The Ass For Would-Be Mystics!

Talkin' about bad memory...When I'm talking to people about This Kind Of Thing..I often forget about all of the hell I went through to -get here-.

Then it dawns on me that -all of that hell I went through- is just another thought from where I stand.

So if you're brain is the arcade game...and your hands are on the controls....then who's putting coins in the machine?!!

I died laughing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CchNQ_Ly_7I&feature=channel_page

Your Intellect, The Universe and what they have in common.

Since your intellect is the mind functioning within the illusions of the world-image, its questions and problems are always born of illusion, and wrong in themselves, and the reality of things will always be unintelligible to it.

-J. J. Van der Leeuw, 'Conquest of Illusion'. p171.

Awakening, exactly how it is

Why am I writing this?

Is the wrong question entirely. It invites an explanation, a laying out on a plain. Furthermore, such an explanation is just more me, story spinning.

A 'why' is a curveball.

The question which has sent me spinning, losing pieces, free falling into the void this all is, is what the hell is writing this, and well...

you know the answer to that one.

Why are you reading this?

Your vaulting ambition for attaining some abiding imaginary state means that you're always over-leaping yourself.

You've been sold some idea by some conman.
For fuck's sake, you're jumping an imaginary fence!

And what you thought you were just doesn't have to do that anymore. Stop carrying on and address what fundamentally is the case.

Truth

Truth is also a verb.

Try truthing, all of the time.

See what happens.

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if it weren't for..

If it weren't for your bad memory, you'd realize you've just been thinking the same things over and over again your whole life--you'd get bored with thought very quickly.

the place to be

You get to a place where you just want to be honest--you see that all of the roles you play, all of the knowledge you've acquired..you see it's nothing. You see that outside of all of the acting there IS nothing, and that nothing is going on all the time.

"But wait a sec," you say..."If there IS nothing, then nothing is something!" And when you see that, it won't be a problem (unless you've got something against nothing).

what if...

What if all of you thoughts suddenly were in a language you did not understand?

Reflect on that. It's not some rhetorical drivel. Bake your noodle on it for a while.