Dharana 84 of 112 · verse 94

Nothing Inside Me

Hold that there is no mind, no intellect and no interior — and let thought go with it.

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8 minutes. Seated, eyes closed.

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The practice

Sit and consider directly: there is nothing inside me. No mind, no intellect, no organs, no interior machinery. Not as a denial of biology but as a description of what can actually be found when you look. Hold it and let thinking subside along with the things named.

What it works on

The list is chosen to include the very faculties doing the meditating. Once mind and intellect are among the things being held as absent, the practice has nowhere to stand, and the text says thoughts are abandoned as a result.

Notes

  • Do not argue with it. The practice is the holding, not the proving.

Practise gently

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