If you have carried out the above instructions exactly, the only thing that is left are your thoughts. And, thus, the final step is to say “I am not these thoughts.” Now the exquisite difficulty at this point is that the thought of “I” which you originally placed in the middle of your head is also (and specifically) a thought which you are not. So even the thought of “I” must go . . . It’s a little like climbing out on the farthest branch of a tree and then cutting off the branch. “The inert body does not say ‘I.’ Reality-Consciousness does not emerge. Between the two, and limited to the
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