The word: use, “to put into service.”
The distress: not facing the mind’s misuse thereof.
(This sentence originally read: “Not realizing the mind’s misuse thereof,” but why not start off on the more accurate foot, in that every ordinary person on the planet is surely aware of how the mind misappropriates the word “use.” The only sane explanation for their conduct to the contrary, is to conclude that they simply will not acknowledge what is so clearly so: the naked fact that men endlessly refer to the, “use-they-make” of thoughts when by definition, “use” never comes into play.)
Not understanding and remembering that the thoughts issuing from everyone, which are not descriptions of things in the physical world, have no use, is the source of all human confusion. (The specialized view of course, of the confusion-intolerant few.) In every instance of every accusation and condemnation that one human levels at another over matters non-physical, misuse of the word “use” is the actual origin.
Thoughts about the physical world, (which is clearly consciousness’ primary purpose), can result in use thereof: thinking and talking about better ways to raise crops, build shelters, improve technologies have the potential to be put into use. Man’s ordinary mind makes no distinction between these useful thoughts and words, which are a minuscule minority, and the many ideas to which he incessantly gives vent that are never put into use, which literally cannot be put into use, and whose nature he simply ignores. (As always, there is nothing “wrong” here. The situation is obviously as life wants it to be with humanity collectively, but for the few to ever clear their head and see what is really going on, an objective living-autopsy of the human game must be performed.)
Let us cut right to the bone to begin with. For the specialized aim of the few, the plain view of this affair is thus: any thought you have about anything you cannot touch is useless – useless.
J.