The mind can let a pleasant day pass without comment there about, while making much note of how inclement was the previous, and how threatening the forecast for the morrow. In its primary function, consciousness is programmed to find problems, which, via its slack time, has led to man finding life to be a problem. It does no observable harm – contraire, this attitude results in him constantly rearranging his physical circumstances to more comfortably serve him. But this programming, while materially beneficial, offers no comparable mental satisfaction. Increasing one’s safety and comfort does not increase one’s understanding, though such is the collective drive within man. It is from the mind’s constant fault finding that all such improvements to physical existence occur. The faults men enumerate within their non-physical reality produce nothing beneficial for the few seeking to get-to-the-bottom-of-things.
The Great Awakening; The Grand Enlightenment; The Big Secret you find at the bottom of things is this: at the very bottom of things – things are as they are. They are as they are notwithstanding any man’s comments thereabout. Things are as they are in spite of all men’s collective beliefs that they should be otherwise. (Remember it is things-as-they-are which cause men to believe what they do.)
Only normal, sane men have anything to say about how things are, and anyone who has any serious comment to make about how things are, has no clue whatever to how things really are and what is actually going on all around them and all inside them.
Life clearly has no interest in men awakening to what is going on, or it would make them naturally so aware. Any interest you have in the matter, (you might say), is off-the-books. It is a strictly private frolic that life tolerates in a few, and damn sure does little to assist. It is indeed, indeed, quite difficult to ever get anything even remotely resembling a firm-grasp on how exactly to pursue this interest. Life lets a few people be born with the desire to know, but then does almost nothing to help them fulfill it.
One of the few things that can be said unconditionally for the use of the few is this:
No thought that appears in you which comments on anything in a manner that is in any way critical has any value whatsoever.
J.