Miracles, part II

That won't work

On the order of miracles, which are all around us—and even in us and alive at this moment in you as you read this—we have no idea of what will work. In fact, we don't really understand anything, although we have a lot of knowledge which has been stuffed into us as though we were sausage skins. And that's about what we’re worth until we develop any real understanding: we’re sausages. If you put mustard on us, we’ll taste interesting, but as sausages alone, there’s something missing.

We have been fed a form. It doesn't matter whether we are Episcopalians or Catholics, Gurdjieff students or Sufis or Buddhists, we’ve been fed a form and it has been stuffed in into our sausage. It's got a lot of fat in it and it tastes good, even without the mustard; but every thought that we have arises from that form. Our beliefs ultimately contaminate us; they don't have anything to do with what is real, they’re constructions.

There is a truly miraculous world available from the inward flow of being, but our thoughts completely obscure it. So I need to invest in my sensation first.

I need to dismiss the thought of my search.

99.9% of everything one thinks is absolutely worthless in terms of real Being. Thinking, the way that it usually manifests in human beings, is part of an automatic machine that was constructed just to deal with the average circumstances of life. It does a great job of that—it doesn't need conscious awareness in order to function, and in some ways it sees any conscious awareness as an alien, even a hostile, entity.

Hence, all of the conversations about "waging inner war" in order to become something real. That's an over-dramatization, and not a helpful one, because if I begin to actually “wage war” against my mechanical parts, there will be bad results. The word is allegorical and should never be understood to imply that violence can be used in these matters.

So how do I go about dealing with this mechanical part, which relentlessly and perpetually feeds me its automated nonsense?