Vigilance is keeping aware of what enters the mind-house.

Do not fight with the arising thoughts

but simply watch them.

Do not disturb you mind, and do not divide it.

But even this watching is through mind,

so then strike at the root of the illusion

by inquiring, “Who is watching the thoughts?”

Otherwise a “doer” survives as a watcher and this is mind.

In the same way,

wanting to kill the mind just creates a “killer”

which can be only effort and movement, only mind itself.

You cannot find and kill the mind,

it is the ten headed demon.

Chop off a head and another will grow back because

“I am bound” and “I am free” are exactly the same trap.

Only the desire for Freedom will help you

because you are what you think.

Think to destroy the mind

and mind is a destroyer, not destroyed.

Think only of Freedom and you are Freedom.

So simply Keep Quiet, simply Keep Quiet,

simply Keep Quiet, and make no effort!

Don’t even make the effort

to carry the burden of the I-thought.