Even though it may be that every person who finally realizes what is going on does so in a way that is ultimately theirs alone, there is no doubt that everyone would benefit from having as precise an early view of the terrain on which the endeavor takes place as is possible.
The difficulty is that mankind’s thinking is programmed to automatically reject the most basic and significant fact thereabout. A quite simple and apparent matter, yet one few are able to ever usefully grasp, accept and consistently remember.
If you are already sufficiently clear headed, then you could be urged to forget all the ideas that may have stuck to your head throughout the years regarding the mysterious nature of wanting to wake-up, achieve-enlightenment, et al. To you it could be validly said, that failure to recognize this simple but difficult-to-confront fact is the very sole substance of the mystical-hunger.
Everything a person thinks about either has a physical reality or does not, and those that do not, his thought created. Watch that your mind does not automatically start to cloud up on you. This statement makes no comment on the comparative quality of the two different things about which the mind can think. There is no inference whatever that thoughts about things with a physical reality are superior to those that have none, nor vice versa. The words merely note the objectively obvious that every thought you have is either about something which physically exists, or something which does not physically exist.
Mankind’s ordinary thinking is programmed by life to not only vehemently reject this, but to have a ready, quite impressive comeback. (Impressive to who?) Which is the instant, blind mis-interpretation of the fact as being a subjective, speculative judgment? Which is identifying one of the two types of thoughts as being superior to the other? Or, even just the existence of one being the literal denial of the other’s existence, (among non-mystically given philosophers and week-end-thinkers, this moot verbal debate has been playing meaninglessly for thousands of years).
J.