The hunger for the knowledge
is the spark that fuels the life of the few,
and it can only be had thru the mind,
but not thru the mind a man is born with.

A man is born with a stay-at-home-mind
but for this activity he needs a wandering-mind.

The stay-at-home-mind is seated firmly in the brain’s sense of a self, 
and is instinctively protective of same.

The stay-at-home-mind sees itself to be the center of an extremely important, though non tangible, universe,
but, “sees itself to be” in the sense of, 
“accepts itself to be” in that it has no natural means 
by which to stand apart from itself,
and actually --  “see” itself.
No, what it does, (since there is nothing to oppose it),
is unanalytically accepts the innate sensation that comes with the territory,
that makes it feel that its view of the universe 
comes from its very core. 

A fish with no oceanographic knowledge,
and surrounded by water as far as he could see,
could conclude to his own satisfaction 
that he was in the very middle of the water even though 
he might be but a short distance from shore.

By instinctively, (which is, from a mental view, to say,
”blindly”) accepting itself and its host human 
to be at the center of reality
does the stay-at-home-mind serve itself, and host well.
Do note an important distinction being herein
created-&-drawn: it is the conscious operations of the brain being spoken of as the 
STAY-AT-HOME-MIND --  the source of thought;
and while the brain’s non consciousness mind 
helps protect the body
the stay-at-home-mind protects thought, and by it accepting its own ideas to be the most valid of all, 
it fulfills its protective duties  cuit à point.
But a man seeking THE UNDERSTANDING
can by no measure rely on this mind;
he can only ignore it, and create in himself the,
WANDERING MIND,
which is forever adventurous;
which never stops, 
never sits down in a chair in your house, 
and “ponders” the nature of the universe, 
which under these conditions is to but 
ponder the sole of your own foot --
...and without ever even looking at it,
at that.

The stay-at-home-mind constantly --  STOPS!
It stops at every object or idea it thinks about;
it – stops to think-about the thing.    Major mistake!
If thinking about things with your natural born, 
self-centered, self-protective, self-interested-only,
stay-at-home-mind had the potential to ever deliver --   THE UNDERSTANDING  --
wouldn’t you, and everyone else have it by now?!

The stay-at-home-mind is the ultimate couch potato; 
the colloquial rube; the rustic boob,
a mental shut-in with delusions of having a world-view.
Everyone’s stay-at-home-mind believes that it properly divines the true from the false; the real from the unreal, and that it alone has the right view and appreciation of itself, and thus its human host.
Living in the grip of this mind is natural, normal,
and what is expected of you by life, 
(and by the six billion other souls around you 
trapped in the same grip.
Cows want to hear only mooing,
and each cow expects to have naught but 
bovine-appropriate thoughts pass thru its head --  or --  be laid on it!)

A man with THE KNOWLEDGE got it thru a, 
WANDERING-MIND;
by way of a mind that --  left the house  -- went outside,
and stayed outside;
a mind that did not stop when it thought about a thing --
but always stayed on the move;
forever carrying with it the infinite number of ways that
the thing could be thought about, and
not confined to how it would be thought about back home using the stay-at-home's constrictive perspective.

The stay-at-home-mind is all that is needed for an ordinary, stay-at-home mental life;
a man can become a president, a pope, 
a respected intellectual using nothing more.
Collectively, it is the stay-at-home-mind that is the brains, and guiding force of the human herd;
what it does --  it does damn well, 
and at what it does, it has no peer,
but what it will never do and cannot do is
put you and THE KNOWLEDGE together --
...it is the wrong dating service.

If you wanna get laid by the best, (and I mean of course by THE KNOWLEDGE ),
you’ve got to: get out of the house;
you’ve got to: FORGET about the house, 
and everything that previously went on in there.
And you’ve got to --  STAY-ON-THE-MOVE! 
Don’t ever stop to --  “think about” a matter:
whatever it is, if it is worth thinking about,
it’s worth thinking about on-the-run.
That’s the only way to find your way -- keep on the move.

Stop-and-ponder how to start a fire; locate food;
sterilize water, but never about any matter that 
you cannot put your hands on.
If what you have decided to think about --
--  you cannot carry with you --
then it can only BE correctly "thought-about"
while on the move.

Thus can a man not profitably think about, 
THE KNOWLEDGE while stationary, 
that is of course, obviously to say:
while his mind is stationary;
while his thoughts are stopped and stuck-on
his thinking about the matter.

Ordinary people, 
having only the stay-at-home-mind,
think about things;
a man with THE KNOWLEDGE,
and using the wandering-mind
just --  thinks;
not about things, but just  --  THINKS.
 

The once-&-forever trick is  --   Don’t stare.

THE KNOWLEDGE could be standing right beside you, 
but if you are staring --  you will never see it.
 

      Knowing is never-settled --  stupid is unmoving.
 
 
 
 

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January 23, 2001: Part II: Brevia.
 
 
 

Quote: “We Italians,(Swedes, Chinese, whoever),
 are a great people -- not because of what we are, 
or what we know, but because we have something to believe in that is beyond ourselves”  (“our faith, our religion, our nation, our culture, our history," etc.) 
Men with THE KNOWLEDGE know of nothing beyond 
what they themselves are, 
and what they personally know.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Life has put in man’s brain a spirit that makes him 
the most alert of all creatures -- 
yet in its off moments it will also hypnotize him.

 “Staring at the furniture: dreaming during the day light.”
 
 
 
 
 
 

If history teaches us anything it is  --  Nothing.

The man-with-understanding learns most  from --  forgetting.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What you do is this: first, expose mind to yourself, 
                                  then ----  hide in it.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                             “Too many words; 
 too much fast- time to say them in.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

THE UNDERSTANDING is the only thing that,
even when you know it --  it remains unknown.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Look for THE KNOWLEDGE in the streets --
--  and miss it under your couch.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

If you’re trying to GET THE KNOWLEDGE, and 
the effort's not filling you with joy & excitement --
                          --  why do it?!
 
 
 

Those who believe predestination -- are wrong;
whose who believe freedom-of-will -- are wrong;
how many trains must pass by before you catch on?
   A wise-ass seems to know everything -- 
--yet doesn’t know anything --
but since everyone else doesn’t know anything either
a lot of them will believe that the smart-ass does.
(And that’s the real name of that work……no matter what title they tried to hustle it to you under.)
 
 
 
 
 

Keep saying, “I”;
keep thinking about the self that your present self 
says IS your self, and see where it takes you.
 ..you really want to know where that is?... okay: 
                          where are you now?
 
 
 

        Knowing is always in motion --  
        stupidity’s gotta stop & rest.
 
 

                                 JAN