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Check you notions and intentions by inquiring

“What is this movement of the mind?”

People confuse inquiry with yoga and meditation.

Yoga is union with the subject within.

Meditation is concentration on an object outside.

Inquiry does not keep any relation

with anything within or without.

Inquiry is finding out who you are.

Then, when “knowing” drops away,

have no doubt in what remains.

“I do not know,” is the Knowledge.

Who is the “I” which does not know?

It is very important to remember:

dormant tendencies rise as manifest thoughts.

Even gods will tempt you and only Buddha survives.

So reject pleasures of heaven and earth;

what is not Here will never be Freedom.


Give up all doubts.