Now when you reach the end of conditioning – when the grasping and the aversion have fallen away – this is what is left: consciousness is born into another area and begins to quietly assimilate its true nature, which has already been glimpsed to some degree in the physical sense. All you really have to do is to examine these experiences as they arise, which means being very careful in the consciousness of observing. This is a very difficult thing because you can’t control consciousness. You can use it, in the sense that you can know you’re thinking thoughts you don’t want to have and ask
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