The most fascinating thing about the neural state 
known variously as: 
Liberation, Enlightenment, and Awakening 
is that you cannot think or talk about it;
all you can do is think and talk about 
what you have thought and said about it.

For all its history has someone been confiding that:
”It is not possible to put the Enlightened state into words,” but most of such voices were merely  admitting unwittingly that they had never experienced
that unusual and eye/I opening neural vacation.

The reason that this extraordinary mental state cannot be described is the same one that keeps man’s ordinary state beyond the reach of words & thoughts:
the mind cannot conceive of itself.
This simple, obvious reality is the basis for the notion, under sundry titles, that man is:
Asleep, in-the-dark, and a captive.

Men talk about what they SAY they think,
but they do not;
they only talk about what they are now thinking concerning something previously thought.
Men will claim to be describing their state of mind
when they are expressing their present view of a
past one.

       Thought runs in real time, but not analysation thereof.
 

The normal brains & consciousness of men seem completely unable to see this stark fact --  but understandably so. 
                          Thought is the last to know.
 

Not being able to think about ordinary thought,
thought regarding an extraordinary version is also
obviously out of the question.

If you believe that you are contemporaneously conscious of what you are thinking
you will never understand what is really going on 
with thinking.
If you think that you know what it is to “be asleep”
as it is happening --  you will always be so.

At first blush it might seem that nothing is more personal to a man than his own consciousness,
but from a personally demonstrable,
objective perspective --  this is plain foolishness.

Men not normally noticing this was the original inspiration for the verbally clumsy concepts 
describing him as being: asleep, deluded & captive.

If it still seems to you that you understand what you are thinking or talking about regarding any subject that you cannot hold in your hands,
you have no clear view of what life is really about.
All you have, (same as six billion others),
is a view of a view --
               --  a photograph of a postcard.
 

Every person who undertakes the search for Enlightenment initially thinks in terms of it being something that they will learn, or acquire, 
and due to the natural operations of thought -- 
and of non conscious instinct itself -- this is inevitable in that creatures are not given to making efforts that do not lead to the acquisition of something pertinent to their survival, or pleasure. 
But that unusual --   and unusually informative
neural anomaly known as “waking up”
is not food, water or sex, or any other form of
material substance that you can bring into your literal possession to fill a present void.

If you do not think about awakening in the right way,
you can never awaken --   and  --
there is no way to think about awakening.
All you or anyone can do is think and talk about 
what you have thought and said about it.

The situation is indeed the mother-model for the word,
”singular”;
picture a scene wherein a certain group of people want to go to The Lost City of X;
they are full of  descriptions thereof, 
and directions thereto, 
and yet not one of them knows what 
they are thinking and talking about, 
and I do not mean just that 
none of them has ever been there, 
I mean that they do not realize that 
what they are after is not really,
The Lost City X --  an invention of their mind --
but an understanding OF their mind -- 
but this is not the half of it
for they cannot understand their mind even if they get 
ON that track --  and  that is still not the end of it --
for if they do finally undertake a journey to 
discover their own mind
it is most unlikely that they will ever realize that 
it cannot be done, and that they are NOT doing it.

       This could be labeled: “The mystic’s final frustration.”

This could also be described as the most difficult thing human thought can ever attempt -- 
literally impossible, in fact…………….well, damn near.
It is so near impossible as for its achievement to be impossible to adequately describe, but this much can be said without any conditions:
that non standard neural state called, Liberation 
cannot be thought or talked about,
and all apparent examples thereof are but 
thoughts and words about what has been 
thought and said about the matter.
Just in front of the first thing ever thought then said 
about Liberation --  WAS liberation.
When you think about thinking you are not actually thinking about thinking,
you could only have done that right  BEFORE
you began to think about thinking,
and when you think about being Enlightened,
you are not actually thinking about Enlightenment 
for that is possible only the instant before you start to think about it.

Talk is about words, and thought is about 
what you are thinking right now about 
thoughts you have thought before. 
When it involves any matter that you cannot touch,
you only talk about words, and think about thoughts,
and never get to heart of what is actually going on inside of your own head.
This is the attraction of thinking that the information you need to achieve Liberation is on the other side of the world; 
”Better that the info be in Tibet than in my head” --
for indeed it is easier to get to Tibet than it is to get  -- 
--  inside your own mind.

No one actually ever reaches, The Lost City Of X, (Enlightenment), as you imagine happens 
when you start this journey;
but those who DO reach it 
do so by the realization that you do not.

The Lost City is your desire to go there;
being, Awake is the motivation to be so,
& Enlightenment is knowing that you can’t think about it.
 
 

Amateur “waker-uppers” are always upset to hear such as I herein have put to words --  and understandably so --   to inexperienced mental ears
it sounds pessimistic and discouraging --  but 
I assure you that it is anything BUT.
No one can be told this, and comprehend it at the beginning of this most marvelous of adventures,
and damn few can tolerate hearing about it 
somewhere down the line ---
but --  there it is  --   nevertheless.

The most fascinating --  AND instructive thing about the neural state known variously as: 
Liberation, Enlightenment, and Awakening 
is that you cannot think or talk about it;
all you can do is think and talk about 
what you have thought and said about it.

….and INSTRUCTIVE, (please note.)

                  My Regards To All Semi-Pros,
                                       JAN
 
 
 
 
 

2 things cannot be known directly,
only thru examples of their manifestation:
one is life, the other is the mind.