nobodhi wrote:
> To believe that you can escape from a certain place,
> you must first believe that you are in that place:
> this is an early cir***stance from which many who are initially
> interested in
> the life of the mental rebel never extricate themselves;
> they know they are not satisfied with where they are (non physically
> speaking)
> but a most difficult to realize viscidity of the situation is that they
> also do not know where they presently are, and moreover -- are unable
> to recognize that they do not;
> they do not like where they are internally,
> they do not know where they are internally,
> but they are made to say that they do,
> thus effectively barring them from ever realizing that they do not
> know:
> a recipe for a routine life for a normal man,
> but one of frustration caused by ignorance for a few.
>
> Perhaps the toughest trick in the independent magician's bag
> is to ever privately realize that whatever it is that so bothers you
> --
> -- you do not know what it is.
> At some early time in your interest in the revolutionist's life you
> read, and accepted someone else's telling of what the bothersome
> thing is -- everyone does --
> -- there is no other way to get started in this elusive affair,
> but to ever progress beyond the introductory stage, somehow, someday
> a clear fact must suddenly leap into the face of your consciousness,
> the fact that you personally have no idea what it is that has for near
> the length of your entire memory made you feel restless and wanting to
> do something -- or experience something that seems not available or
> possible,
> where you inwardly are now.
> This recognition is the first great release;
> your thinking is liberated from a captivity that you not only did not
> realize,
> but which in fact, you had been taking to be part of an escape plan.
>
> The sudden apprehension of this ignorance is, for the certain man,
> a most joyous and memorable day;
> he can then begin to actually reconnoiter his inner world,
> the first step toward the full realization of what is going on in the
> life of man.
>
To know your true self
You must become a living dead.
Mike
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