*image by Ben Harubin

"The-Installation-Of-Civilization,
And It's Attendant Proper Approach To
'Relative-Assignment-Of-Blame.'"

A girl asked her mother, "What do you call rude noises that come from your body?"
And she replied, "It's according to which end of your body they come from."

Thinking men (with their individual sense of "I") live in two realms:
in life, and in conditions.

There are conditions because man has an "I,"
and man has an "I" because there are conditions.

There are conditions because man thinks,
and man thinks because there are conditions.

People in the woods are not confused --
it is only after they receive instructions that they become so.

To think is to be definitively human --
to think is to be trapped in a room of mirrors.

Life is just "there" -- impartial, impersonal, and seemingly inactive.
Conditions, on the other hand, strike man as extremely biased, personal,
and always in unpredictable flux.

Life is just "there," having no particular taste of either this or that.
Conditions however seem to man to be annoying or pleasant, distracting or
informative, threatening or supportive.

Life presents nothing other than itself -- to be alive.
Conditions are the source of all that men call "problems," but seen clearly
it is not after all actually conditions, but rather men's thinking, which
alone gives birth to his perception that there are these
never settled, ever frustrating, always potentially dangerous -- "conditions."

To live solely in life (and never in conditions) is what is called
being Enlightened,
being Awake,
being Free, and Knowing What's Going On.

The influence of man's thinking
upon the conditions in which he lives
cannot be overemphasized
...in that it is his thinking that creates conditions.