“Yet, in a completely impartial and impersonal manner, everything that an ordinary man says about anything he perceives to be of consequence makes him, (to an enlightened mind), appear a childish dunce. As an aside you might care to note that this is absolutely, unconditionally true with any comment an ordinary man, or would-be mystic, makes and in any fashion whatsoever expresses their displeasure-with and well-founded-criticism-of-anything, (including their own confessed, sorry state of consciousness.)”
The elder held out his cup for a refill from their thermos, and when the lad had so complied, the father sipped, then spoke. “The manifestation of this that offers you the personal, put-your-mental-hands-right-where-it-hurts-and-do-somethong-about-it potential, is to picture what I have been describing as occurring in your own brain, between an area that is already awake and enlightened, and the ordinary talking part. I say that everything the fully conscious section hears, coming from the routine, speaking part of your brain, sounds to it like the babbling of an idiot; the ranting of the deranged. This is the basis of me telling you that the desire to be awake, enlightened and free in your mind is the longing for a pre verbal I.
If you want the practical use in this picture I am today sketching, take it as simply as I say it: your desire to ‘wake up,’ (or anything else you want to call it), is a longing for a pre verbal I, for it is only such an ‘I’ that will not naturally be asleep, distracted, fragmented and annoying.”
He sipped his coffee again – then looked over at the son and said nothing.
(He actually said: “Huh!?” but without saying it.)
J.