*image by Ben Harubin

An Approach Worth Considering:
If you can't seem to stay "conscious" constantly,
how about every other second?

Hey! it's worth thinking about (so to speak).

Everyone's floating down the river.
A few want to stop.
They're called "dazed and confused"
(sometimes known as "those wishing to awaken").

How can you really expect to change your state of mind with the mind
when the mind is all that makes up your "state of mind"?
Yes, I know, you'd think that it couldn't be clearer, but mud finds it
difficult to see the water in its mix.

Today's Fairly Tale:
Once upon a time there was a guy who had the ability to be two guys, but he
never knew it, since whenever he was one of the guys he had absolutely no
awareness of the other one.

(Now that was fairly straight forward.)

Question:
Is it actually our normal state of consciousness that causes us to trip and
break things (and all the other "problems") or is it our fretting about our state?
"But that can't be...it simply can't!"
"That a'boy -- keep telling yourself that."

And from another room, a lad yelled out, "Oww! -- I've got a cramp."
And his father yelled back, "You've been trying to think your way to
awakening again."

If all thoughts are illusions, then is not the grandest illusion of all the
thought of being free from thought?
"But that can't be -- can it?"
"Now you're thinking!"