To the wide eyed, the clear reality of the two different types of thought offers no judgment, nor presents a preference. It is merely a most basic recognition of a most basic fact unique to man. Not only does he alone have thoughts, but he can not only think about all of the things which he finds already physically existing all around him in this universe. He can also think about things that never existed at all – until his thoughts created them – and which still do not.
This does not say that thinking about gold is superior to thinking about god, nor that thoughts concerning food are better than those about art. The statement merely makes cold note of the experientially obvious. Whatever you are thinking about either is a thought about a thing that physically exists, that you could touch with your hand if you were close enough to it, or else you are thinking about a thing that neither you nor any other human can, has or ever will, touch. It simply has no physical existence as far as the human senses can ascertain.
This is plainly true, but outside ordinary mind’s ability to use, yet is of supreme practical significance for the few. Far beyond what may even now strike you as its obviousness, you believe that you realize its truth and full profundity at your expense. Be assured, even if you think: “Yeah, yeah, I hear ya! It’s true, so what? What’s the big deal about it? I want to, Wake-Up and be Enlightened, not play silly word games like this.”
This is understandable when you know the secret about the mind, but relentlessly chewing on the simple fact that: Everything you think about either has a physical existence or does not, will, (for those to this born), eventually, one unsuspecting day, suddenly shove you right out of your dark inner cave – out into the joyous, glaring light on the totally open plain just outside the cave’s door.
In spite of how dogmatically a thought in your head may presently say that you understand this, just the persistent pursuit of this one simple fact can, in an instant – when you suddenly really see it – change absolutely everything connected to your desire to discover the secret that is hidden from ordinary minds…if there be one…and there be one – and this is it.
J.