A sip and a grunt, father speaks: “What men tell you about their lives, tells you nothing. Only the life they live does. People cannot tell the truth about their life, only the life they lead can, and the one you lead inside can be seen only by you, and it cannot be seen by any of the thoughts which normally comprise it.
From today’s expedient perspective, the historic struggle for awakening, enlightenment, liberation, is a rebellion against the sensation that there is more to you than there is. But the thoughts that make you feel this way are what make man unique, and what make the few fret and fume. But who can fight Hercules? How can you fire Cinderella?
Obviously, to our kind you can’t. There is no way to lose that ten pounds of illusionary fat other than by leaving town for a while; traverse the universe, then come back around from the other side of town, slipping up on your old fatty self before it/you has time to realize what is going on. Stealth! Surprise! Unfairness! Those are the keys to success, my lad, now spread that jam and let’s get down!”
“But Papa, what about the second headline: ‘Trying to awaken is the attempt to make something out of nothing’?”
“Hey boy, weren’t you listening?”
J.