Whatever you get from this note or the next note, you will always have to face the emptiness between notes.  Do you see the whole of that emptiness or do you just gloss over it in a rush to the next note?

This note is about the emptiness between all stimulations, pleasures and work-efforts.  This means human emptiness in the psychological sense of it.  It is that human emptiness without a gap between you and your emptiness.  Just as winds blow in the outer emptiness, forces of inner compulsion blow like inner winds in your psychological emptiness, pushing you toward stimulation, pleasure-indulgence or work-effort.  The human emptiness cannot remain full for very long before the emptiness and its compulsion force start up a new attempt to fill itself with stimulation, fleeting pleasure or a period of noble or necessary work-effort. It is not easy to leave the emptiness empty for awhile.  There is at least another note coming to help avoid the emptiness.  Sartre’s insight into human emptiness is perhaps worth a little exploring, as are Krishnamurti’s meditations on it.

What really happens when a human emptiness gets a temporary stimulation from this question?  Is there not a basic emptiness in our intellectual activities of reading, reflecting and thinking that cannot be filled or covered- up?  Do you not become like a ghost haunting the note-session?

This note is about neither your emptiness nor your rush to the next note.  This note is about timeless waiting to be unshakably happy someday in some far-off future.  The eternal waiting to be happy needs to be more deeply understood in yourself.  Do you know how to understand it in yourself?  Will you do it now?  Or will you eternally wait to find out about your eternal waiting? Do you find this psychological recursion significant?  Can you answer it?

This note is about your possible reincarnation on a planet other than Earth if you are a human on Earth right now.  Endless extraterrestrial humanities are quite worried that they might have to take rebirths of neurotic, arrogant Earth-souls.  Would you foist yourself on a better world?

You do not distinguish your unconditional, pure and clear awareness from your empirical cognitive faculty that reads, writes, thinks and talks.  You identify yourself with your cognitive faculty in its reading of this very note, thus negating the actual meaning of it.  Your inability to stop yourself from identifying with your cognitive faculty is your self-ignorance preventing your self-awakening.  You are told this at this time because you need it now and not later.  If you want to follow-up on this important distinction, study the Samkhya philosophy of India, which is superior to the phenomenology philosophy of Edmund Husserl who equates the transcendental cognitive faculty beyond emotional mind and physical body as one and the same with pure awareness rather than a reflection of it.  There are four levels and not merely three.  Of course most modern materialistic brain-in-a-jar so-called “philosophers” find Husserl too transcendental and spiritual.  Even the idea of a surviving mind beyond the dead body of a deceased human being is considered “unscientific”.  Before you read the next note, ask yourself about your real awareness.

In Zen, the distinction between unconditional pure awareness or Buddha-nature and the cognitive Ego of conceptual thinking is symbolized as the difference between “Host” and “Guest”, or between “Emperor” and “Minister”. Hence, you can read this note in “Host-position” or “Guest-position”.  See what position you are in before you read the next note.

Since Zen and Samkhya are similar in perspective, and since you yourself require a self-awakening beyond your cognitive faculty of logical and causal egotism, would it not be a good idea for you to voluntarily stop all the useless crap you are trying to do about this note?

Now, here is a new key to self-awakening: really want it and stop pretending you want it!

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