This note is about how serious you can be about the development of your consciousness.  Before you go on to the next note, try to define to yourself what you actually mean when you think of “being serious”.

Are you really serious about all this?  If you are, please ask yourself what kind of energy, intensity and focus are the qualities of your “seriousness” before you go on to the next note.

How often do you sustain an intention, inquiry or interest and carry it through without contradictory urges or inner pressures that alternately pull you off into their concerns, involvements and activities?  How deeply will you go into that very question before you go over to the next note?

Have you noticed how often a subject comes up that you seem to be serious about, but it isn’t long until the next thing comes up and you are already forgetting the thing you say you are “serious” about?

This note wants you to look at your whole life.  Would you say your whole life as you actually live it throughout the day and night is a life lived with a great deal of genuine, intelligent and conscious seriousness?  Will you really look at this before you go to the next note?

Is it possible that you are serious only where you get some gratification or entertainment?  And is that really being serious or something else?  Before you go to the next note, will you look at what happens where you believe you are “serious”?

If you are willing to find out what it might mean to be really serious, should you not look into this a little more deeply before you go into the next note?

Many shallow, petty readers come to this website, but when they make an effort to be serious, they cannot do it.  Their “seriousness” is bound to be fleeting and superficial because there is no self-observation of their own cognitive process.  So, before you go on to the next note, will you take a hard look at your own cognitive process and see if it is truly serious or all too shallow and easily distracted?

You may have any number of intellectual or spiritual aspirations or involvements, but as long as your mind remains petty, self-enclosed and rather disturbed or distracted, what is going to happen when you come to a note session?  Will you be a serious presence? Are you a serious presence?  Or are you already lurching superficially to the next challenging but misunderstood note?

Can you develop a sustained interest in becoming serious?  Will you really set aside the usual superficial activities of your mind before you come to the next note?

Let us assume together that you are becoming more serious about being serious.  Can we put it this way?  Before you read the next note, see how you feel about becoming more serious about reading this note as a good beginning.

Do you realize that it is only a deeply thoughtful, observant and serious mind that can pursue a particular inquiry all the way through to the real answer?  Are you here and now discovering the full significance of being serious before you go to the next note?

If you are to become capable of total, real action from all this, do you not have to fully observe and understand the way your mind works both here and everywhere?  Without such observation and understanding of your own mind, the idea of “being serious” will not mean much, nor will your presence in this or the next note session.  Do you see why this is so?  Are you really understanding all this?  Has it been made clear?

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