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its efficacy and use we all know. However we should know that true meditation is not about doing or achieving anything. It is about removing the obstacles that obscure our nature. A spider sits silently in a web without moving. He is not meditating. He is waiting for a fly to land. He wants to exist as an identity, an ego, as if he is his construct of thought and to also possess freedom.
The very silence of which we all have direct awareness reveals that the ego that is seeking is nothing more than thought itself; it is of a substance similar to that of the substance of a dream; for we know in one moment of no-thought that is our daily experience it completely disappears. If we try to look for it with the mind, ̳the no-thought/mind is not found to be the same. This has been a regular pastime for many aspirants and they complain about it often.
This is because the ̳self‘ is nothing but thought. We obviously cannot catch hold of a thought; this is the frustration of those who think that another illusion ―Sakshi‖ is not able to watch the ̳no-
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