If you have any serious business reading this,
then you have serious dissatisfaction,
and if you have any serious idea 
what these words are really about,
then you are past thinking that your dissatisfaction
is caused by anything outside of you:
that is where a person must eventually be standing
to ever get actually started in this grand internal adventure.
But even when a man comes to the above noted realization he still has a formidable hurdle to pass --   --  a dazzling puzzle to unravel --
an almost impossible problem to solve.
 

The sole cause of the dissatisfaction that motivates
readers of such as this is their mind  --   
--  the routine workings of the human mind.
You will save yourself a lifetime of frustrating, 
(though perhaps, entertaining), mental effort
to realize as soon as possible that the ongoing
activity in your head that men commonly call, “the mind”
is the one and only source of your dissatisfaction.
It is not caused by evil forces; 
nor by the stupidity of others,
nor is man under a curse from the gods from some past misdeed,
and to believe that you have progressed past notions such as these, and think of your dissatisfaction in terms of it being caused by your being, “asleep,” or, ”unenlightened,”  
still does not reach peak efficiency in that at best,
such mental images keeps you still one serious, 
but unnecessary, 
step removed from the simple reality of the situation.
 

If, for a period of time, you take quick, periodic,
and honest note of what will go on in your head
regarding what was just said,
you will readily discover that your mind has a built-in, 
automatic rejection of any idea that identifies it as the source of the dissatisfaction that plainly takes place in its bailiwick.
Your mind will even lay claim to being nothing other than an objective observer, and impartial recorder of
what it witnesses, and thus the undeniable turmoil that 
goes on in its area is certainly not caused by it, 
but clearly instead, by the disturbing events it merely records.
 

It presents itself to be like a television set --
a passive entity that can only display the pictures, 
and sounds sent to it by outside sources.
Your own experience will show that it verges on being literally “impossible” for the mind in your head to see
the situation in any way other than this;
but should you not  --  
you will never come to the end of this, and see, 
what so clearly,
being a human being,
living on this planet,
with a brain that continually produces thoughts,
is actually all about.
 

It is not the ideas coming from other men’s minds that annoy you --  it is your mind’s meaningless, automatic, and totally impersonal reactions to them.
No one really cares if another human is 
Muslim, or Christian; Liberal, or Conservative;
Freudian, or Jungian --   no one gives a rat’s ass!
They certainly pretend to, (but you should say):
”Their MIND pretends to” 
for no other feature of man ever pretends to be interested in anything which it instinctively is not.
 

If you know of no condition in your head other than the normal one of the mind you were born with
occupying all the space devoted to consciousness
then you have no choice whatsoever but to accept the preferences that your mind automatically expresses --
--  and will always express  --
about the minds of others, and thus will 
never ending dissatisfaction in yours be assured.
 

Quite tricky to see  --  but undeniably so, once seen,
is the fact that other than for your mind,
nothing it says that you believe
is of any interest at all to any other part of you.
The rest of you, (if it paid any attention to it),
would find what your mind talks about as 
being important in life 
to be utter bullshit.
 

No one pays any attention to the mind when it is talking about 
any of the many non tangible subjects
it has made up through the years --  except the mind.
No one else cares;
no one else is even slightly interested in such things;
no one else believes any of that crap --
no one else is even listening, but the mind.

No matter who you are,
regardless of your background & experience,
the mind talking in your head this very instant
is lying --  whatever it is saying --
if it is talking about things you cannot touch,
and are thus not directly pertinent to survival.
Everyone’s mind believes things that are totally,
completely, entirely of no interest to you whatsoever --
if you but look at it, and if you are one of the few
truly determined to get to the real root of your dissatisfaction, 
and thus alleviate it. 
 

Down toward the end of this road,
everything is pretty plain and simple,
but --  Damn! if it doesn’t seem to take a lifetime to get that far?! --  Yes, but if you will turn your most sincere and constant attention to what was described here today, an otherwise,“lifetime” of effort 
can be whittled down considerably.
 

                                                 J