development of awareness

[Guest guest]

Maybe ten years ago I got really ambitious and went to the hardware

store, bought a lot of small gold letters with stickum on the back,

and made signs out of them which I placed near the door knob of the

front door, on the shaving mirror,on the front of the refrigerator,on

the lens of the speedometer etc. The signs said " AWARE " . I won't say

that eventually I stopped seeing them. I will say that I immediately

stopped seeing them and they had no effect at all.Which leads me to

think that awareness is like music--you have to be in the mood for

it.I have a lot of cds etc. but unless I have a certain feeling before

I put them on, they do nothing for me. Without that feeling Beethoven

is only as good as muzak. It is this way also with reading dharma of

any kind or hearing talks. No hunger, no satisfaction. So forget about

following your bliss and learn to wait for your hunger.