The thinker himself cannot possibly effect the cessation of thought. Insofar as he is involved in the thought of ceasing to think, he himself is the perpetuation of thought. But if the thought process is merely watched or impartially witnessed, it will subside on its own and take the thinker with it.
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Spiritual practices are based on the false identification of the seeker with the ego and its efforts, attributing to the Self various defects and limitations conceived by the ego. But the manifestation of the universe is itself an illusion in which the same ego is included only as a helpless and finite part. So who is to make any effort, and for what? That Self which is sought through Self-enquiry is already realized because there is nothing but the Self.
Ramesh Balsekar
7 December
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