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Dr. Thynn: To understand the mind, you have to watch and pay attention with an uncluttered, silent mind. When your mind is chattering away, all the time asking questions, then it lacks the capacity to look. It is too busy asking questions, answering, asking.
......Try to experience watching yourself in silence. That silence is the silence of the mind free from discriminations, free from likes and dislikes, free from clinging.
......Thoughts and emotions by themselves are just momentary and possess no life of their own. By clinging to them, you prolong their stay.
......Only when your mind is free from clinging and rejecting can it see anger as anger, desire as desire. As soon as you "see" your mental process is fully preoccupied with "seeing," and in that split second anger dies a natural death. This seeing or insight, called panna, arises as a spontaneous awareness that can be neither practiced nor trained. This awareness brings new insight into life, new clarity and new spontaneity in action.
deed of him who rightly knowing,
is wholly free, perfectly peaceful
and equipoised.
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