A father said to a son: “Without question: every problem that man has solved,
he did so by thinking about it:
nothing that he has accomplished has come by his physical wherewithal,
but by his thinking  --  now:
take anything you consider to be a problem you have, and consider this:
withstanding thinking that could lead to action you could take this very
instant regarding the problem:
there is nothing you can ever think that will solve or even affect the problem.

With no deliberation: everyone understands that thinking is man’s greatest ability:
it can work what would otherwise be miracles when applied to material matters;
it brings water to arid areas; increases food production with less labor;
designs medical technology that can save your life,
but when thinking is turned to intangible affairs,
something happens to which the whole world is blind (that is)  --  nothing happens.
There is nothing to equal thinking that we can see in the entire universe  --  yet (excepting thought about a problem that can lead to action you can take
at this exact moment concerning the problem) thinking will not solve, help, modify,
or in any manner, affect anything that by your own definition is a, problem.

As witnessed by psychiatry, religion, and all forms of counseling,
men act as though things are otherwise,
but no sane (by his peers' definition) man can deny what I have just said;
if he honestly considers it for just a moment,
he will, at least for an instant, be brought face to face with its indisputable reality.
There is nothing you can think that will solve any problem you have.

Every man’s greatest possession is what?   --    what he knows.
Man knowing things is what makes him the singular, dominant,
super comfortable and long-lived creature that he is.
The life man lives is due to what he knows  --  not how strong, swift, and stealthy he is;
without the things he knows, man would be just another primate  --   but:
by normal extension of the incontestable fact regarding thinking
which I just mentioned, we have this one of equal solidity:
(as before, setting aside anything you know that you can put into action
at this present moment): Nothing you know has any value  --   consider:
no question, complaint, problem you have in or about life can be answered, rectified,
or solved by anything you know  --  by anything that ANYBODY knows.
If you are dying of thirst and know that water can often be found just below the surface, you can put that knowing into action at that very significant instant and begin digging,
but if there is no pertinent action you can take at the time you are thinking about
a situation, then nothing you know about it or anything else is of any value.

Based on what I have just validly described,
no so-called normal person on this planet can deny --  not for the brief instant
that life and his mind might allow him to see it if he sincerely considered it --
that everything you know is useless  --  thoroughly useless
(unless whatever it is that you know can be put into immediate practice).
If you but look  --  it’s not arguable;
it is a plain, in-your-face fact.

If anyone would attentively follow what I have described about thinking and knowing, they would (for that brief, permitted instant of momentary recognition)
have to admit its veracity  --  so:
why are not men constantly aware that the situation in their head
is like I have described it?

You could wander around the world, meditate, study obscure scriptures,
speak with sages and savants, smoke strange stuff with them,
but nothing has the potential to shake your consciousness from
its natural born condition like pursuing to its end the question I just proposed:
Since it is certain that every human on this planet has the ability to see for themselves the reality of what I have described concerning thinking and knowing  --
why is not this reality an ongoing, constant part OF their reality?