The Old Lion and the Young Lion

The mental state claims everything. No matter what that everything is, it's part of everything. It claims it and it forms it to fit its prior programming, which is sheep. The best you can do in that condition is your inherent nature is looked for as an experience. And then you may be recognized the mental claiming of the lionhood and turning it into seemingly a sheep. You'll see it. This is the working understanding. It's not an understanding that only has value pontificating ... when the shit hits the fan, it's gone"