An astounding book title: “How To Handle Life.”
The phenomenon of men’s brains attempting to 
tell men, (that is, 
the brains attempting to tell themselves),
what they should be thinking,
and since this is insane, they pretend that such directions come from a source outside-of, and superior-to themselves --  gods.

There is an entirely different perspective of life possible by realizing what is going on regarding neurons’ ongoing attempted self-improvement
as they pretend it is something otherwise.

In ordinary minds this pretense is tolerated --
in a few people, it is not.
They are the ones who seek Enlightenment,
(which is to say): they want to see the matter for what it is --  which can be done --
if you get on the right track.
 
 
 

Life automatically provides two things for everybody:
physical conditions in which to live,
and a running mental commentary thereabout.
To see what life is about for yourself requires that you
give up the commentary life, and in so doing you gain,
(or RE-gain), your original, more natural life,
lived but in the physical conditions available.

There is a trail that goes from:
”I have read that…” to:
”I have been told that…”  to:
”I believe that...”  to:
”You and everyone else doesn’t understand that…”  to --
silence  --    nothingness --
just cold-headed cobra consciousness.

A discovered man’s miraculous life consists not only of
eating when hungry, and resting when weary,
but also of ignoring the inner commentary life has made available for common use.

The only difference between ordinary people, 
and those who aspire to know 
is that the latter think that there IS a difference.
You do not realize this until you KNOW what is going on,
and by then, it does not matter anyway,  
but until then --
it does truly seem to matter,
which is partially responsible for keeping you in the dark.

Being deluded is a state wherein you perceive there to be a distinction between your thoughts and what appears to be going on in your life.

Mind and conditions have no separate reality;
both are automatic, impersonal characteristics of
being a human and being alive.

What will keep you confused is in passively accepting 
the voiceover in your brain as being individual to you,
and originating in you.
That running commentary on the conditions of your life --
--  that you take as being such –
IS no such thing;
is the very same thing AS the conditions on which 
it comments.

What men ordinarily take to be knowledge of themselves is the commentary looking at their feet and saying:
”I am doing the tango.”  
“I look foolish doing the tango.”  
“I am not cut out for the tango.” 
“I do not want to do the tango.” 
“Who is responsible for me doing the tango?”
”I want to dance the rhumba.” 
”Why can I not do the rhumba?”
”Perhaps the tango is not as bad as I thought?!”
And they never recognize the fact that the automatic
mental commentary regarding their feet’s dancing
is inseparably tied to the automatic dancing of their feet,
and their feet dance as is appropriate to the mental commentary thereabout.

In plain fact: the feet’s dancing, 
(the physical conditions of your life),
are the very same thing AS the mental commentary 
about them,
(although you pretty well must have a
pretty clear view of 
everything in general before you can see this
specific matter as simply as I just put it.)
 

A man who might realize enough to be of any help to you might verge on being dimissive of everything you have worked for, achieved and believe you know --   that is --  
IF he was to be of ANY help to you.
And rather than taking this as being about you,
and another person, 
apply what I just said to the running commentary in your brain, (which already "knows" everything!),
and another not yet used neural potential.
 

    The only things to take seriously in life
    are those that you cannot talk about.
 

                       If you still have a point to make --
                       you still don’t GET the point.
 

                                     JAN