Difficult getting anything over to someone who is asleep -
to the fact that they asleep - to the fact that they are dreaming they are awake.
As everyone is so asleep, asleep is normal.
So if anyone does wake up - they are seen as strange.

Gurdjieff really went into how asleep we all really are.
He went so far as to say that we are not born with a soul - we have to
earn/create one,
and until we do, we are just energy providers - for the moon! Cute.

Mentioned before, one master said only about one thousand people have
woken up - ever.
Here in the West, in our usual arrogant way, we think an occasional
meditation retreat or group every few years, and a handful of brown rice
will do it.
If you read the biographies of the few who are said to be awake you will
see that it is a big, and usually, very uncomfortable process.
Not that it has to be, but it seems it needs the extreme to get us out of
our stupor.

It seems that even in the most strict Zen monasteries, very few have an
awakening experience. From the sound of it, more have them in Kira and
Clare's Satori groups!
Trouble is, as with most exulting experiences - once we go back to our
'normal' lives it is
so easy to go back to sleep. Don't have to - and we do.

Here is something I, or anybody I have read or heard of, has ever been
able to describe clearly enough to get it over: 'This Is It.' And there is
only this.

It is so simple that the mind thinks it has got it. The mind cannot get
it.
Of course it professes it does, but the fact is, not only does it not have
the capacity to get it, it cannot understand that it does not have the
capacity to get it, or even, there is something to get.
It just does not have the capacity to understand that it cannot understand
-
that there is something broader, and 'outside of itself.'

Here goes anyway.
When you think, you are either in the past, or a projected future - based
on the past.

Here is an even more difficult bit.
You think you are a man, or a woman. You are not - that is just a thought.
I know, I know, I have heard that argument before - many times.
Please, just let it in. Everything you think - is just a thought - based
on a consensus of an idea. Not only that, but the consensus has been
created by: Not Very Nice People.

You are not a woman, or a man. That is just an idea.
You are not married - or single. You do not have a home, or career. Just
an idea.
(You can be sitting in a café thinking you have a home - and it has burnt
down -
and the insurance invalid! Or your termination notice is in the post.)

"The beasts have their dens and the birds have their nests,
but the son of man hath nowhere to lay his head."

This does not mean what your mind is telling you it means.
It means there is nothing but this very moment. Just as it is.

Not only that, you are not entitled - to anything. That really is a big
one eh.
You are not entitled. You are who you are - in that moment - and only in
that moment,
because that is the only moment there is - in that moment. Tidily Pom.

Another thing.
When some people have an awakening they try everything they know to pass
on the experience of that state. As said, very few stay the course.
Everything goes fine until - The Big One - letting go the idea of a self.
Pride.

Gurdjieff really went for it. Tried everything tried before, and invented
lots of ways of his own. So it is said, no one got it. He experimented
with meditation, music, complicated exercises, thirty -six hour hard
labour, instantl-stop-what-you-are-doing-until-the-bell -rings-again.
Anything to push the person past their resistance.

One story. Scene:
Ouspensky was his foremost disciple. He lived in London at the time.
Gurdjieff was in a remote part of Russia.
There were wars raging all over Europe and the continent.

Somehow Gurdjieff got a message to Ouspensky that he should come to him
immediately.
In order to get enough money to do so Ouspensky had to sell his house and
leave his wife and family.
After months of very dangerous travelling he arrived to where Gurdjieff
was staying.
It is said that, Gurdjieff looked up and said: "Now you go back."
The journey, not the goal.
It is said that at that point Ouspensky stopped being a disciple, and
continued his search - through the mind.

Most of us have nothing like that devotion - to even go beyond our pride.
And of course we don't have to - do anything - about anything.
And, if we do not feel free there is always something eating away inside
of us.
Seems we are born with an instinct to evolve, and if we ignore the message
-
it eats us up.

Once again, nothing to be taken seriously, it is just that everything does
seem to have a consequence - one way or another.

Suggestion.
If you feel waking up is not your priority - then go for life and living.
I mean really go for it.
Loa Tzu: "Standing, stand; sitting, sit. Above all - don't wobble."

Happy somethinging...