Is this to be just a day like every other day?
Does it have to be such a day?
You arise from your bed;
you eat, you drink;
you walk, you see;
a life of clouds, rivers & sunshine occurs around you,
and a separate life within;  
but is this life actually so separate?…
…or does it just feel that way to you now?…
    …due to your taking it as being separate?
 

    For a person hot-on-the-trail,
    how could any internal day 
    not be pleasing & exhilarating
 
 
 

Will it be a big long thing that will cause you to 
see the secret, 
or will it be little short things?

Will it be hot;
will it be cold;
will it be new;
will it be old?

If you are expecting an owl, 
what will you make of an eagle;
if you are expecting an eagle,
what will you make of a dump truck?

   Many claim to know that man lives in a dream,
          but few, few, few know what the dream is.
 
 
 

A man who often spoke about -- 
getting the understanding  -- 
when asked if he had it, 
would only say: 
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

    For the few: 
    idleness is the next best thing to emptiness.
 
 
 
 

You can try to pick up what another man 
knows about the understanding -- 
--  but you can’t run with it.
  
         A man dependent on someone else’s word for it
                        has a boulder in his drawers.
 
 
 

The knowledge would please everyone,
and they would be greatly relieved by it –
--  although 99 out of 100 wouldn’t understand it --
     --  and would thus not benefit from it.

             The-Ultimate-Fairness-Of-It-All is that we            
                      have left feet --  since we have
                                      right feet.
 
 

           Only those without the understanding
                                    do not realize that
                                    everything-works-out  -- 
                                     --  it has to  --
                                          --  it has no choice.
 
 
 
 
 

“If you look for the understanding
with your eyes  --  you’ll never find it.”
   “Do you mean: ‘e-y-e-s’, eyes, or:  ‘I’, I’s?”
”Uhhhhhhhhhhhh…….I forget.”
 

       The understanding is the only thing that,
       even after you find it 
       you still don’t see it.
 
 
 
 

Ordinary men walk against the wind,
or they walk with the wind,
but either way --  as they walk --
they feel apart from the wind.
This is not the understanding.
To know-what-is-going-on is to realize that
triumphing over life no more exists than does 
being defeated by it.

     Only those without the understanding 
                         feel that life is anything
                         other than  themselves.
 
 
 
 

Having the knowledge is not something you  --
“think-about”   --  
but rather a feeling that is possible when you’re 
not thinking.
…(the tricky part is in the initial discovery of 
     the feeling.)
 
 
 
 

A father told a son: “What I don’t know can hurt you,”
and the younger asked: 
            “Is that also true the other way around?”
”Always,” he replied: “Always.”
 

                                We have a mind that talks,
                           out of fairness to the fact that              
                               we have one that does not. 
 
 
 

Find a thing that you can’t pick up,
that you can’t open,
that you can’t break,
that you can’t see through  -- yet --
seeing through it is all that you can see.
                       
 
 
 

The understanding is IN thought, but 
                                         it is NOT thought.
 
 

  
   For the few:
   idleness is the next best thing to not being there.
 
 
 

                
Stand forever before a backless mirror and ask:
”What is this?   What is this?   What is this?”
 until you finally get it.
                       
 
 

                        When you suddenly see it  --
                       --  coal is hurled at midnight.
 
 

                                           J