*image by Ben Harubin

 

Notice:
Listening to your thoughts run and thinking are two different matters.
If you listen only to your own thoughts run,
not only will you learn nothing,
but you will also never discover how to think.

 

One man used to feel ashamed for how stupid most people are,
then for a while he felt ashamed for feeling that most people are stupid.
Then one fine day (more or less) he had an extraordinary,
expanded experience of awareness and saw quite clearly that, yes indeed,
without any doubt and free of all subjective opinion,
most people are stupid compared to what they are capable of, including him,
as evidenced by this episode, and after that he never felt ashamed again...
'cause he immediately dropped dead!

Eye Exercise:
When you "look" at things, don't look at the things --
look at what in you is doing the looking.

There was once a man who kept trying to run up a certain hill,
but could never make it; he eventually came up with a new tactic:
he pretended the hill didn't exist and he quit trying.

Note:
Only the extremely shortsighted find fault with such measures,
and have such silly thoughts as "Well, that doesn't count!"

One man dreamed that he swallowed a radio and that it lodged in his head.
Then he awoke to discover he was a radio who had swallowed a man.
So he went back to sleep to try and straighten it all out...in his mind, that is.
...Like -- where else?

Troublesome Emotions Update:
Without illusionary (that is, totally meaningless)
specific concepts of self-interest
you wouldn't have emotions, much less troublesome ones.