There Is No HOW

Reality is not sweet. Life is not sweet. Truth is not sweet. The question that matters is not if something is sweet or not. The question that matters is how desperately one seeks to reach his goal, whatever that goal may be. If he desperately wishes to reach his goal . . . if he longs for a particular outcome . . . he will not be swayed by sweetnes

there are Truths as to the way things actually are. As to how things actually work. The Reality behind things. The True state of affairs. The more that one pursues this, the more potential he has for attaining it. The closer he comes to The Truth about the way things are, as they pertain to his situation and goal, the less likely he is to go astray

If you do not desire something in the depth of your bones, you will have an endless tolerance for failure. If you do desire something in the depth of your bones, you will have little tolerance for failure. As Buddha had. And once the prescriptions fail, as they always do, you will be forced to find your own way.

Rare is the human, who truly wants what he says he wants.

One reason is that the prescriptions will undoubtedly cause the human to shift his focus from the goal to the prescription itself. In doing so, he will make endless attempts to satisfy the prescription. And thus, the goal will fall by the wayside.

As I have stated, in the mechanical elements, prescriptions can be employed to some degree. But in the non-mechanical elements, which happens to be the overwhelming majority, prescriptions will sabotage his outcomes. For Art has no use for prescriptions. S: Art has no use for prescriptions. Are you saying that one cannot be taught Art, Master. M: I

After one is given a prescription . . . or after he begins to follow a prescription . . . his allegiance, his focus, his attention, his intent is centered upon the prescription. Not upon the thing he is trying to attain.

M: Because he has been conditioned to believe that if he does X, Y, and Z . . . he will attain the thing he is trying to attain. He fails to understand that the X’s, the Y’s, and the Z’s serve only themselves. They do not serve the thing he is trying to attain.

I have never thought of it this way. But you are correct. When it comes to things in the material domain, from success to wealth to whatever it may be, there is zero tolerance for any notion that has an indefinite timeline. If after twenty or thirty years of doing something I have failed, then it absolutely means that what I have been doing does no