Off in the woods for a walk, after a long stretch of silence, the father started to talk to the son again. “The cause of all your complaints and confusion is that you are the thinker, and not the thought ABOUT. If an ordinarily minded man heard that he would vigorously disagree, and insist that he indeed spends a great deal of his life ‘thinking about himself’ – but is that true. We certainly know what he believes he means by the statement, but is it a valid reflection of what is actually going on?
Routine people can never be made to look beyond such an assertion; the collective needs of man does not require such and thus most men have no further interest in the matter. I bring to a boil today what I was stirring up for you yesterday regarding the fact that men’s brains make them say that there are certain things that they, “Will not think about.” We now discard the bay leaves of examples, and go to the meat.
I have already put voice to the sinews by saying that for the few, the source of all your complaints and confusion is that you are the thinker rather than the thought ABOUT, but let me be more accurate and say that living in a dream comes from you being the apparent thinker rather than the thought about. There is the key distinction; there is both the key AND the lock that keeps your realization out of the sealed room.
When an ordinary man says that he thinks about himself all of the time, he speaks inaccurately. What he does think about comes in two flavors: things he has done, (which, as always, is irrelevant to our interests), and, what-he-has-thought-about. The reality of it is that men do not normally think about themselves, but about what they have thought about themselves.
Ergo I say that the unrecognized, original source of your confusion is that you accept yourself to be, The Thinker, rather than pursuing a course-of-life wherein you, (the apparent you), becomes the thought-about. Put in even greater detail would be to say that the cause of you feeling hypnotized, disoriented and at a disadvantage, is because you drift along playing the part of, The Thinker rather than making The Thinker the thing thought ABOUT.”
J.