There is a good reason for you to learn a new way of looking at situations.  If you look without fear, self-centered dramatics, greed or excitement, you might suddenly see what is actually there (or not there).  This sudden seeing is an operational subtle cognition beyond the more idealistic “sudden enlightenment” of Zen that is supposed to be some self-centered psychological event of a tense and neurotic person sitting rigidly on a straw mat.  So, before you go to the next note, try to distinguish better between your self-centered spiritual ambition of your social self and the operational activation of your more perceptive cosmic self.

This note is about your hopes (positive imaginings) and fears (negative imaginings).   Both of these are barriers to subtle perception.  They are not really opposites. The prisoner of imagination is a prisoner.  Breaking out of the prison is the task-at-hand, not attempting to always stay on the sunny side of the prison cell.

You can be taught by this note to the same degree that you can progress beyond imagination to subtle perception.  This is the same in your case as progressing from pretence to natural down-to-earth simplicity.

This note suggests that you now decide that you are a new kind of invisible student of a new kind of invisible teacher.   Can you go along with this idea in a meaningful way without triggering your usual negative or positive imagination?

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