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Many wise beings have stated that on the quest or seeking enlightenment or not taking it so far that the mind is filled with incessant chatter and dialogue and it can be disturbing as it is sometimes very loud so to speak and this maybe because of the interference with the quietness one is seeking or just annoying data of no importance or significance or can be a pressing worldly problem or just anxiety with no apparent cause that could be suppressed subconscious content which is clamouring to be released or be dealt with because it has a significant role in the subconsciously running one's life in the background and be the energy fuel for reactions and firing off the agendas and brain washed programmes.
As one follows the path and begins to meditate it may follow into an awareness that sharpens the attention of the witness within, these words within are not really adequate as there are no physical location. To me it means turning the attention from the visual eye view, the touch, smell and other senses from their tangible feelings and as one turns the attention inwards it as if all the physical senses become kind of suspended and seem to melt into the awareness of attention. The withdrawal of the senses add energy to the attention.
Here when the mind is chattering away and certainly into fantasies and imaginations which seem to intrude more than just endless babble there is a need by the ego and it is a longing unfulfilled and the ego is a most insistent entity. This importunate intrusion can be a battle as it seems to arise spontaneously and catch the awareness or rather cloud the awareness off guard so to speak.
This is interesting and certainly interesting and subtle; Awareness can be a false sentinel in the sense of the ego has a watchdog and is a deliberate mind intention to stand guard and see that one does not chip away at its roots and foundation. However the the witness of the Self(this is natural awareness which is consciousness) can intuitively realise without effort, which is a spontaneous faculty and arises through meditation, reflection, unbiased observation and mulling over and musing with other aspects like pondering and contemplation that breaks the cycle of random chattering of the flotsam and jetsam of the uncensored automatic programmed agenda filled mind.
Is there any use for these random intrusions; yes the mind and its blueprints and patterns feels these fantasies and intrusions along with the accompanying chatter are part of its inheritance. The programmes accumulated through culture, religion, life experience, politic, peer pressure media and education shape the reality and one may carry on without deviation and allowing a few outside their box tolerances. Some may think of breaking away from their rigid ways through trauma, boredom or some other experiences which may awaken their examination, they may realise that they can swap for another set of blueprints, models and roles and they may find that this is the same as the former one with just as many rules and regulations.
Then on realising that these programmes and agendas are interchangeable and therefore are impermanent that they are delusions and illusions by the fact one can exchange one religion, politic and life style should one feel the urge to do so. As the ego is merely a set of brain washed inculcated set of programmes that too is an illusion and impermanent but the programmes are an inheritance by the human race and they and have been inculcated since time immemorial in fact antediluvian and they are buried deep in the human psyche and as such are so deep that it may take millions of incarnations to wake up to them. These programmes represent and feel they are reality, permanent and provide a reassuring safety and security and are a false god. When one realises the fallacy in these and their transitory nature then the quest begins to find reality and who am I and can bring great distress in the process and journey.
So the use of them maybe found in the unfulfilled yearning that the ego portrays in the seeming volcanic spontaneous or rather impulsive urges; the yearning for success, a family, love and be loved, peace yet creative fulfilment which are all laudable and commendable, however in the twenty first century these commendable attributes take on a formidable meaning. Success is usually a business, status in society, a celebrity of many sorts and making it in society and being an authority and so on, being simple is what most crave and yet the pull of the world ethos of eugenics, technocracy, wealth and acquisition, being forever young and glamorous causes envy and greed and the ego always wanting to be right and supreme spends most of its time conniving as to how to obtain the worldly goods.
The awakening that the ego affords the awareness is somewhat complimentary; the ego pushes its agenda for dominance in the mind and world however it may by its persistence awaken the witness of awareness by the fact the ego in its efforts for total power and dominance may rupture itself in the process by excessive striving and energy expenditure and bore itself with its constant demands, the ego may rebel against its constant demands and seek other endeavours elsewhere and again as above find the continual swapping of intents just as boring as the former ones and may show a hole in the net of conditioning and allow the awareness to come forth.
The ego may so strain itself that it could cause a serious illness in the physical body and this in itself could cause an ego surrender and not to another programme but to examine itself and the fact that in death that is inevitable was it all worth it, although some on their deathbed rue the fact they cannot take it with them (this can be the magnate to lure one back to pull of wealth or failure I'll be a success next time round) and others next time I'll find out who am I without all the shenanigans of the ego.
SHACK
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The seizure of the U.S. Navy ship and her 83 crew members, one of whom was killed in the attack, came less than a week after President Lyndon B. Johnson's State of the Union address to the United States Congress, a week before the start of the Tet Offensive in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War and three days after 31 men of North Korea's KPA Unit 124 had crossed the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and killed 26 South Koreans in an attempt to attack the South Korean Blue House (executive mansion) in the capital Seoul. The taking of Pueblo and the abuse and torture of her crew during the subsequent 11-month prisoner drama became a major Cold War incident, raising tensions between western and eastern powers.
North Korea stated that Pueblo deliberately entered their territorial waters 7.6 nautical miles (14 km) away from Ryo Island, and that the logbook shows that they intruded several times.[2] However, the United States maintains that the vessel was in international waters at the time of the incident and that any purported evidence supplied by North Korea to support its statements was fabricated.[3] Pueblo, still held by North Korea today, officially remains a commissioned vessel of the United States Navy.[4] Since early 2013, the ship has been moored along the Pothong River in Pyongyang and used there as a museum ship at the Victorious War Museum.[5] Pueblo is the only ship of the U.S. Navy still on the commissioned roster currently being held captive.[6]
The Manchurian Candidate is a novel by Richard Condon, first published in 1959. It is a political thriller about the son of a prominent U.S. political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a Communist conspiracy. (There is a document that says many were conditioned in such ways; The movies in the Bourne Series is based on these Intelligence reports and interviews on Camelot with Duncan O'Finioan and David Corso)
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