It is the repetitive mechanism of thought that is wearing you out. So, what is
it that you can do about it? -- that's all that you can ask. That's the one and
the only question, and any answer that I or anybody gives adds momentum to that
movement of thought. What is it that you can do about it? Not one thing. It's
too strong: it has the momentum of millions of years. You are totally helpless,
and you cannot be conscious of that helplessness.
If you practice any system of mind control, automatically the 'you' is there,
and through this it is continuing. Have you ever meditated, really seriously
meditated? Or do you know anyone who has? Nobody does. If you seriously
meditate, you'll wind up in the loony bin. Nor can you practice mindfulness
trying to be aware every moment of your life. You cannot be aware; you and
awareness cannot co-exist. If you could be in a state of awareness for one
second by the clock, once in your life, the continuity would be snapped, the
illusion of the experiencing structure, the 'you', would collapse, and
everything would fall into the natural rhythm. In this state you do not know
what you are looking at -- that is awareness. If you recognize what you are
looking at, you are there, again experiencing the old, what you know.

What makes one person come into his natural state, and not another person, I
don't know. Perhaps it's written in the cells. It is acausal. It is not an act
of volition on your part; you can't bring it about. There is absolutely nothing
you can do. You can distrust any man who tells you how he got into this state.
One thing you can be sure of is that he cannot possibly know himself, and cannot
possibly communicate it to you. There is a built-in triggering mechanism in the
body. If the experiencing structure of thought happens to let go, the other
thing will take over in its own way. The functioning of the body will be a
totally different functioning, without the interference of thought except when
it is necessary to communicate with somebody. To put it in the boxing-ring
phrase, you have to "throw in the towel," be totally helpless. No one can help
you, and you cannot help yourself.


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