For the few:
What is lost is superior to anything gained.
Instead of describing the goal as: “achieving Enlightenment,” it would be better described as: “leaving the shadows.” And in place of: “waking up” – “losing sleep.” And rather than: “expanding consciousness,” to say, “giving up being stupid.”
Nothing, including a man, can ever be better than it is. The greatest “change” possible is in being less, less-as-good as you could be.
Loss and poverty are the keys; not gain and wealth. You do not need anything additional in your mind; you have too much in there already to ever realize that specialized goal.
A clever man’s greatest possession is poverty;
the proper understanding of poverty being:
a lack of useless possessions,
and nothing is found to be more useless
to a man with open eyes/I’s
than what his mind knows.
J.