Being
a medium for thought makes you two creatures:
the
one who leads the life you live and the one who looks thereon and
comments
thereabout;
the
one who observes and comments stands amidst the one who
leads
your life much as a fisherman stands in the middle of a rushing river;
your
thinking you is totally surrounded and relentlessly buffeted by
ever
running, ever changing near chaotic and quite noisy conditions
which
continually challenge its balance and threaten to knock it off its feet,
and
carry it away,
(not
physically: that would be a health matter with the other you).
The
you who leads the life you actually live is not conscious of its world
as a place of constant, unpredictable change, nay,
such
to it is an anomaly -- an indication of illness;
while
felt and seen from a view divorced from your commenting you,
the
world of the you who actually leads the life you live is relatively calm,
quiet
and repetitious, (and as always, not the concern here).
From
the most simplistic perspective: everyone else’s commenting self
is
the roaring river in which your counterpart stands;
what
other peoples’ thinking selves have to say about life are the intangible
conditions that continually threaten to tip over your thinking self;
fablistically:
aristotle amidst barbarians, jesus amongst pharisees,
all
examples of one wise man surrounded by fools:
that
is how the ordinary commenting self of every routine thinking man
sees
its position in the overall mental world of man:
“I
have important, useful observations to share, but am encircled-by,
and
drowned-out by the foolish, invalid ones of lesser men,”
and
while this keeps the mortal coffee perking, it is but the basest of perception,
for while it is true that everyone's commenting self stands right in the
middle of the rushing river of what everyone else's commenting selves have
to say,
if
you wish to ever get dried off and up on the bank for a better view of
what is really going on, you must turn your mental eyes in a different
direction;
you
must make the tricky, frustrating effort for it to eventually dawn on you
that, (in spite of its irrationality when put in words), the relentless,
raging
river
in which your observing/thinking/commenting self stands -- is itself.
At
bedrock, your commenting self is standing on the self that
actually
leads the life you live, but that you in you makes no comments,
(other
than the occasional stomach growl),
so
what the commenting you seems to be standing amidst of
is
the comments your observing/thinking you is making about
the
silent you that is leading the life you actually live.
In
words it certainly at first sounds confusing, if not improbable-come-impossible,
but for the few with that CertainHunger,
a feasible amount of open headed investigation of the matter will soon
subtly suggest to you otherwise.
Next Step
There
are no problems without two people;
all
problems are inside you;
ChasingTheThing
is not a problem solver, but an exposer of what problems are.
You
clearly cannot have any dispute, argument, misunderstanding,
or
strictly human problem
of any sort without two people;
a
single man cannot sustain an argument --
there
must be another person to support a mental position opposing his,
and
all problems unique to man, (not those concerning territory, food and sex),
are
mental disputes:
the
comments of one man’s thinking self conflicts with the observations of
another man’s commenting self;
all
strictly human problems are entirely about the differences in observations,
and
comments each man’s thought-medium-self makes –
but now:
the
few with TheHunger,
determination (and bit of luck)
who
faithfully prosecute the above noted inquiry, soon realize that these
everyday
discrepancies and disputes amongst ordinary men’s commenting selves
are
irrelevant to their personal endeavor, and thus they turn all of their
investigatory skills on their self -- specifically on that
self in their head which observes and comments on the life they lead.
These
observations result in a never ceasing stream of critical comments about
the life the observer is leading, and right there is --
THE
Human Problem
–
but
wait up! -- there can be no problem without two
people –
and
there is not two of you in you -- yeah, but there can sure
seem to be --
in
fact, does not what had been noted in the above show it to be so?!
No
non physical problem exists outside of any man;
all
human problems exist only inside of humans;
all
problems require the presence of two people;
no
human has two people inside of them.
There
was once a planet on which a movie was continually shown,
and
on a screen so large that it was constantly in everyone’s sight;
it
is so all pervasive that most of the people there have come to accept the
film as an actual part of their actual lives;
“Look
-- a train wreck" -- two things, no?! –
a
train wreck and the comment thereabout;
“I
don’t feel so good”
-- two things, no?! –
the
not-so-good feeling and the comment thereon;
“I
don’t think so” says a man’s thoughts in reaction to another
man’s;
“I
don’t approve of that thought I just had” says one man silently to
himself.
One
guy theorizes that man might be victim of a cosmic hoax,
while
his brother pondered the possibility that something else less nefarious
seeming could be going on of which man is not normally aware
-- and in particular,
a
CertainPossibility
that
would clear up all problems, answer all questions,
and
make the illusion of two in you merge nicely into the reality of one.
To
be-asleep
and captive of TheCity
is
to feel always on the verge of being overwhelmed and swept away by you;
the
feeling is not imaginary, but is based on U.S. Steel Reality,
but
the girders you are given at birth are not the only building materials
available to a persistent, quiet man.
When
you are out of the dream and out
of TheCity -- you are one
person,
and
one person is silent -- who does he have
to talk to -- or listen to?!
J