You can’t simply think  --  you are always thinking about something, and everything
the mind can think about fits into four categories (three for ordinary people):
one: you are thinking about events you are witnessing (a sports event, a movie, a thunderstorm); two: you are thinking about a problem you are attempting to solve
(how to repair your furnace lacking a certain part); three: you are having thoughts
with no specific focus, which are but a direct result of how you are feeling,
(worrying about death when you are feeling ill),
and for the few there is a fourth, indescribable thinking activity which is the
benchmark distinction between the mental life of the collective,
and of the certain individual attempting to get to the actual bottom of things.
 
 
 
 

One day whilst sitting in his library, gazing at the many books surrounding him,
and just: "thinking-about-things" (as he liked to call it),
one chap’s cortex was suddenly the medium for this thought:
“Those who truly have nothing to write about --  write about themselves,”
an idea he found so impressive that it caused him to immediately reach for the manuscript of his autobiography he was working on to add the incident of this insight,   but after a couple of seconds had lapsed,
even he sensed an uncomeliness to such an act.
 
 
 
 

Spoke a father to a son:
“Ordinary men want to live regimented lives  --  particularly in the mental realm;
if asked, they, with sincere appearance, can deny same,
but the reality of this for the keen eyed could not be clearer;
its evidence in others is inescapably all around you,
and likewise omnipresent in you in the natural born part of your mind.

This desire for directed order is plainly manifest in man’s two primary
intangible realms: religion and politics (but also in all other cultural activities);
from one view: religion and politics are simply excuses for regimentation:
a context for organized, standardized thinking.
This reaches its curious apogee in the lives of people who profess to be engaged in specific efforts to go beyond such and to bring about within themselves
an unconventional state of mind or consciousness (often referred to as:
trying to Awaken, achieve Enlightenment, or be Liberated, et al),
and they do so by becoming not only a participant in a regimented program,
but by embracing the idea that the goal is only to be realized by being ultimately
able to live (but primarily think) in total accord with its teachings:
freedom through slavery: independence via regimentation.
If there is one guaranteed way to not  wake up, it is regimented thinking;
contraire: what is absolutely required is a loose-mind;
no need for me to invent some fancy term for what I mean:
loose-mind covers it  --  so picture my boy:
men devoting their lives to making the thinking that occurred in someone else
become the thinking that occurs in them,
and I am not being sarcastic in that this is the norm for man:
I merely highlight for you that which those participating therein never note.

The mind feels as snug and safe in a methodical system of ideas
as does the body in a parka in the cold,
and being an adherent and repeater of a system’s ideas in the company of others likewise dedicated, makes the regimented efforts seem all that much more correct.
With such people you could even say that contrarily to wanting a freedom of mind
that would permit them to understand things now that confound them,
they instead want more restrictions thereon  --  indeed ultimately:
total regimentation and predictability in the brain activity they call thinking;
they are not fools; they are normal human beings,
and this is how their minds work.

If you are to ever see for yourself what is really going on with life and man,
and experience the reality of such notions as: Enlightenment and Awakening,
you have got to have a loose-mind,
and as with all else: the potential for this you are born with,
but its realization you must activate, and since standard humanity lacks this latency, there are no facilities in place to teach its execution:
you have to find how to do it for yourself,
and in spite of that I have, since you were a lad, been nonetheless trying to nudge you in that direction.
It requires a hellava lot of something for a person to ever grasp the need-for,
and nature-of a loose-mind, and the humorous irony (as civilians would call it)
is that no amount of concentrated study of the idea will help;
that would be like trying to forget how to ride a bicycle after you have learned to.

Every one of the many tricks I have given you to use throughout the years were all
for the supreme purpose of loosening your mind  --  what else is there?   --  nothing.
Being Enlightened is not some secret that you learn: it is a loosening of the mind;
regimentation of thinking is man’s normal condition  --
escape therefrom is through a loose-mind.”

Anyone who attempts to think outside the ideas native to their mind will eventually
find their self either entangled-with, or else struggling-against some form of systematized thought  (from the collectively perceived political reality of their clime
to some metaphysical teaching that promises liberation from such concerns),
but neither dancing-with nor cuffing-around a tar baby leads anywhere;
the reality of all human systems, teachings and programs is a perfect reflection of
the normal human mind.